Copyright 2012 Granta en Thu, 9 Feb 2012 06:14:20 +0000 60 Granta Magazine: New Voices Latest comments on New Voices at Granta.com http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End weloveplus on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment21954 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment21954 Full of interesting stuff!

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]]> Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:25:19 +0000 Jhenderson on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment364 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment364 Each phrase is fat and juicy. You just wonder where each one will lead.

]]> Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:25:06 +0000 kclark on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment336 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment336 I keep coming back to this. It's heartbreaking. I can't wait to read more from this girl.

]]> Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:07:38 +0000 Gbenga Awomodu on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment315 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment315 Absolutely fantastic. I love the poetic feel! I should try this style soonish!!

]]> Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:11:43 +0000 yonacito on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment260 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment260 I also created an account in order to leave a comment.

I am still in tears over this piece. As a writer it is rare that I find work that I like immediately. Wait, first let me say thank you for writing this piece. Your story spoke to me on so many levels.

Haven't had a good cry like this in a while. I immediately took on the role of the author. There is so much life in this story. I don't want to use words to express how powerful my experience was so I will stop here. Thank you

]]> Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:47:04 +0100 perzephone on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment256 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment256 This story is heat lightning for my heart. Thank you.

]]> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:05:44 +0100 Renzo on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment249 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment249 I am commenting on what the commentors said mainly, since the work of art is unreproachable on any level. I think the symbols are not so difficult for native speakers, who feel more than they intellectualize, although I am not sure that the one who wrote that comment is a non native speaker. I only suspect.

This would not stand up well as a novel length piece I think because of the intensity of the cadenced, metered feeling of the text, again much more poetry in structure than prose.

Pronouns are tricky and I think that here they are only of concern because the "you" is the author, a woman, and the "I" is a man, AND the author's name under the title is clearly a female gendered name in English. If we had no authors name, or a bigendered name (imagine one) we would interprete the story according to the gender roles described about the characters inside the narrative. In Turkish there is one word only for the third person (he, she are not separated) so this tale in Turkish might be more direct since we would assume that the author and speaker were the same and were male. This confusion turns the pronouns and gender of the characters into a symbol, a ploy or a red herring of sorts. We don't know.

I had never imagined this type of prose, narrative and shortened short story. I think that the imaginer of that structure is more of a genius than the writer of it. But neither is far from genius. It is as others have said, amazing, in what it accomplishes emotionally and how efficiently it accomplishes it.

]]> Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:59:25 +0100 g.stills on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment110 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment110 So... How's about that novel?

]]> Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:57:18 +0000 gypsy on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment109 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment109 "I Remember It Well"

sung by Steve Lawrence, Maurice Chevalier et al

]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:36:39 +0000 Syed Mateen Ahmad on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment107 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment107 An impressive piece of writing, but for experienced only, as it is full of symbols, which are sometimes confusing. Highly creative and imaginative. I liked the narrative technique and the way voices of characters are intermixed.

]]> Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:07:12 +0000 Pierre on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment89 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment89 This comment has been removed by the moderators.

]]> Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:23:05 +0100 swarmflash on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment68 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment68 This is, without question, a brilliant piece of writing by a unique voice. Looking forward to see where she goes next.

]]> Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:11:38 +0100 patrick murphy on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment61 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment61 The skill with which immediacy is invoked is jaw-droppingly good. My first rich cyber-lit experience. What a buzz...

]]> Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:01:16 +0100 jeelani on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment41 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment41 She is Jessica. I am Jeelani. She wrote that. I write this.
She said heart. I listen life.
She drank tears.I cried blood.
What a savage world. What a lethal time. Again I read this line. I knew what you meant.


]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:55:31 +0100 Valverde on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment39 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment39 Made an account just to post this.

Wow. My stomach has dropped out.

]]> Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:28:13 +0100 Yours Truly on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment37 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment37 Wonderful transition: We left the door unlocked. You found a lump. This reads like a poem.

]]> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:00:57 +0100 LynnScarapella on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment36 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment36 What a breathtaking piece! I haven't been moved like this by a story in a very long time. I could just read it again and again and again. And I will!

Congratulations, Jessica!

]]> Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:10:24 +0100 Cristian on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment35 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment35 What a story!

I like to read new voices, writers that are not being forced to write a story. Profesional writers are writung -sometime- too much, they should pause, do something else, recharge the batteries to see if they can write again with this fresh english, direct, to the point. CONGRATULATIONS!

]]> Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:20:28 +0100 Victoria Mixon on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment34 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment34 I couldn't stick with just the beauty of the exposition. I also discussed the meticulous use of first and second person, for the benefit of every writer who's ever wondered, "How is it done right?"

This is how it's done Right.

Victoria
http://victoriamixon.com

]]> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:07:04 +0100 David Gleeson on New Voices http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment33 http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/Beginning-End#comment33 The drift is established almost from the outset, making its ending all but inevitable: death or break-up. But that doesn't detract from a wonderful progression carried by a unique style of prose.

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