/lit/ - Literature

>>11464264
Green.

>>11464268
Based

Sylvia Plath tbqh. Died at 31 too, if she got healthy and continued writing she could've grown into one of the best ever

>>11464264
Thomas Woolfe had really good prose

You're missing the Gass man, Stein, and Gaddis. For a contemporary author I'd add Krasznahorkai.

>>11464264
Obviously.

I like Kafka, but can you really describe him as a great prose stylist? I haven’t read him in German so I can’t tell.

Where is the Pynch?

>>11464319
>For a contemporary author I'd add Krasznahorkai
This.

>>11464323
Yes,Thomas is the perfect balance between style and clarity

>>11464323
seconded, ridiculous that this list has Kafka but not Mann, Manns prose is the combimation of elegance, irony and general patrishness that nabby always tried to achieve but never quite got close

>>11464323
>>11464479
>>11464509
>When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Mann fled to Switzerland
>The outbreak of World War II on 1 September 1939, prompted Mann to offer anti-Nazi speeches (in German) to the German people via the BBC.
And... dropped.

Where is Samuel Beckett? Where is Thomas Bernhard?

>>11464525
Ungrounded and bluepilled.

>>11464326
Was going to post this. Love the guy but not for his prose.

>>11464525
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=2341

>>11464525
Based and redpilled

>>11464264
Kaur

>>11464509
Kafka is foremost stylist, and purist, of German Language, while Mann is middlebrow pseud, no wonder nabi hated this dolt.

>>11464996
Yea, Mann is an atticist at best. Not a groundbreaking prose stylist (it never was his strength anyway).

>>11464278
no womyn reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I believe Lydia Davis will be remembered for this

shirley hazzard

>>11464264
For me Hawthorne and Steinbeck will always be better writers than Melville. His command of language is impressive but he's also got the imagination and artistry of a piece of stale bread.

Pessoa

>>11465473
Absolutely fucking terrible post, evaluate your life

>>11464264
No Shakespeare? What?

Céline
Poe
Mallarme
Svevo
Gaddis

>>11467774
Melville and Henry James both. Snoozefest especially the matter fuck that guy.

>>11467810
>prose stylists
Joyce is basically just modernist willy shakes anyway

>>11467810
Can't believe it took this many posts to get to Shakespeare. I hate /lit/

>>11467817
This guy thinks Shakes didn't write the best prose ever lol

>>11467817
shakespeare wrote in prose and undeniably developed a style specific to his authorship

i'd include dfw in a list of heavy-weights of prose stylists, without committing that his prose is always or even often great

>>11467830
Shakespeare is the boss of writing no doubt but Cervantes, Tolstoy and Joyce are better prose stylists.

>>11467832
Is DFW writing always so sad and hilarious? I can't get into Pynchon much but Brief Interviews With Hideous Men was amazing.

>>11467839
i'll never understand the fawning over joyce, i never once have been swept up as when reading shakespeare, cervantes, céline, or the like. though i think he was interesting as a case study, especially regarding the way lacan analyzed his life's work.

>>11467859
>shakespeare, cervantes, céline, or the like
>céline

>>11467873
>not realizing celine is the best writer of 2000 years

>>11467859
Joyce and Shakespeare are like encyclopedic poets. They command language with the precision of the best of sculptors and dance in the details of life like the music never ends.

>>11467873
Speaking of Céline, has anyone else noticed some retard who can't speak English tried to sneak this into his wikipedia page?

>>11467891
it me

>>11467825
Shakespeare didn’t write prose faggot

>>11467938
You know those parts in his plays where the lines don't begin with capital letters? That's prose faggot.

>>11467938
Armado, Falstaff, et. al. did not exist wew

I don't rate Joyce highly. We all know that the best thing he wrote was the priest's description of hell in the middle part of "Portrait", but if you read "On Hell and Its Torments" by Jesuit Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, you will see that Joyce's is basically a rip-off.

>>11467959
>We all know that the best thing he wrote was the priest's description of hell in the middle part of "Portrait"

>>11467959
Possibly the worst fragment of his entire oeuvre

>>11464264
Woolf

>>11464845
>>11464920
WHO DO I BELIEVE


also: samefag

>>11464264
How has no one said Hermann Hesse? In my opinion he's much better than a few of the ones listed in the OP.

If philosophers count I'd also add Nietzsche and Sartre. Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Nausea have bursts of some really beautiful prose.

>>11469007
Hesse is boring as hell. All concept, no art.

>>11469016
Damn, I'd say he's anything but boring. Him and Nabokov are my favorite prose authors.

"He was swept up in a violent wave. A sudden awareness of impermanence washed over him, a feeling that often deeply tortured and intoxicated him. Everything was soon wilted, every desire quickly exhausted; nothing remained but bones and dust. But one thing did remain: the eternal mother, basic, ancient, forever young, with her sad, cruel smile of love. Again he saw her for an instant: a giant figure with stars in her hair. Dreamily she sat on the edge of the world, plucking flower after flower, life after life, with a playful hand, slowly dropping them into the bottomless void."

Different strokes for different folks though, I get it

maybe it's just my weakness for Southern lit in general but I've always felt like Wolfe doesn't get his proper due

>>11464449
I love T-ruggles-P but his prose isn't god-tier.

>>11467959
The best thing he wrote was the ALP monologue in the end of Finnegans Wake

>>11469016
Imagine thinking one of the easiest authors to read is boring

>>11464264
Pessoa you fuck