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"... relatively short paragraphs (possibly up to a few pages)"

I love things like this that just shows me how much I view the world from a certain perspective. I don't think I've ever had a paragraph even on one page! The closest I know is that some writer, that I forgot the name of, had several pages of stream of consciousness that I think was without paragraphs and punctuations.

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Modernist and post-modernist writers are known for this (James Joyce and David Foster Wallace, for example).

But also Saramago, Gadda, García Márquez, or Victor Hugo and his 800+ words sentence. Stream of consciousness usually has long paragraphs, but it’s quite common in other genres (I feel like genres is not the right word for it. Techniques?). Popular fiction is the only one that usually avoids long sentences/paragraphs/chapters.

Saramago is a great example. He writes in Portuguese that is easily and closely translated to Spanish which is my native language. When I first read Saramago it was really difficult to get used to his long sentences with only commas and no dots. But after a while it starts flowing.

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