OK so thoughts on no speech marks in fiction?
Why do it? Why not do it?
Is it merely experimentation, or something more? Does it bring you closer to the text, or push you away because it feels weird/pretentious etc?
I’m writing something just now and it suddenly feels appropriate not to have them (despite it being regular dialogue) yet I have no conscious way of understanding that choice.
(Paging literature analysis experts and and (T, I don’t know your literature background other than I get the sense you have a strong instinct for this kind of thing) for their thoughts too. I’m sure there’s many more experts here, too. Educate my uneducated mind.)
(Adding , too. Penny for your thoughts.)