I wanted to make that book as taut and spare as possible, to fit the proletarian life I was then leading. So I hit on leaving out the articles. I still think it effective, but would not do it again. It may now seem, I'm afraid, affected.
On the absence of common articles—“a,” “an,” and “the” — on his novel "Living"
The Paris Review, Issue 19, Summer 1958, The Art of Fiction No. 22
