What is the longest sentence ever created in history?

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What is the longest sentence ever created in history?

Answer 1

There are a few right here on YA that fits the bill.

Answer 2

There once was a slightly deranged man who lived in war torn land far far away that was occupied by an evil empire with an evil military presence.The desperate and uneducated ignorant people of this land needed something or someone to grasp on to to solve all their problems ( early liberals ). Since this man was taught his mother and father never had sex he felt special.His delusional state of mind allowed him to get people to believe his stories and some were mesmerized by his trickery.He was so believable that after he was arrested and killed for breaking roman law the brainwashed screwballs carried on the B.S to other screwballs and ever since this happened the world has been a mess...Amen

Answer 3

There's an author, I think it's Faulkner, that writes sentences that go on for 2+ pages...

Answer 4

Donald Barthelme wrote a short story called Sentence. It was one, long sentence. It went on for about ten pages.

Answer 5

Try reading anything Welsh...one word alone could stump YOU !

Answer 6

The last section of James Joyce's 'Ulysses' has two really long sentences: one is 11,281 words, the other 12,931 words.



The Guinness Book of World Records says that the longest sentence in English is from William Faulkner's novel 'Absalom, Absalom!' but it is only 1,287 words.



The website listed below claims Nigel Tomm's novel 'The Blah Story' is the longest published sentence with 2,403,109 words.

Answer 7

Heh. You could make an infinitely long sentence if you wished, so I don't think that there's a solid answer for you.

Answer 8

I don't know read.



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Answer 9

I have read some pretty long ones from Virginia Woolf but here is some info for you from http://www.gavroche.org/vhugo/sentence.shtml :



Many people attribute the longest sentence in literature to Victor Hugo. The claim is that a sentence in Les Miserables, 823 words long, earns that title.



The source most often given for this, if a source is given, is Timothy Fullerton's Triviata: A Compendium of Useless Information, published in 1975.



Unfortunately, Fullerton was in error. At best, it is the longest sentence in French literature, though I can't confirm that.* Traditionally, the longest sentence in English Literature has been said to be a sentence in Ullyses by James Joyce, which clocks in at 4,391 words. Past editions of The Guinness Book of World Records have listed this record.



However, Joyce's record has recently been surpassed. Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club, published in 2001, contains a sentence with 13,955 words. I believe he currently holds the record in "English Literature."



However hold on to your seats...



There is also, apparently, a Polish novel, Gates of Paradise, with a 40,000 word sentence. I have been unable so far to find absolute confirmation on an author. Bramy Raju, written by Jerzy Andrzejewski, and published in 1960, translates as Gates of Paradise, but it has been described as a novella. And while there is no absolute definition of that term, novellas are usually shorter than 40,000 words.



Finally, there is a Czech novel that consists of one long sentence -- Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age by Bohumil Hrabal. It is this novel that Coe has said inspired his 13,955 word sentence. Hrabal's 'novel sentence' is 128 pages long, though I have been unable to find an exact word count. It most likely takes the award for longest sentence. Even if it doesn't, it dwarfs Hugo's significantly.



-- John Newmark - Nov, 2003



*Aug 2004 -- I have received an email stating that Sodom et Gomorrhe, Volume 4 of À la Recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust contains a sentence that's 847 words long in the original French. If this is true, Hugo doesn't hold the French literature record.



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