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Who is the greatest english prose stylist of all time? Anonymous Wed Dec 1 02:46:17 2021 No.19493557 [Reply] [Original]

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 02:47:27 2021 No.19493563 >>19493557 Joyce. Disregard anyone who says otherwise. Then maybe someone like Burton.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 03:06:56 2021 No.19493606 >>19493563 Joyce himself said Newman is.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 03:46:01 2021 No.19493690 >>19493563 What about Nabakov?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 05:36:01 2021 No.19493932 >>19493690 ESL hack. Garish, cloying, forgettable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 05:41:24 2021 No.19493940 >>19493690 Let people compare him to Joyce by all means, but his English is patball to Joyce's champion game.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 06:10:35 2021 No.19493995 >>19493690 A non-entity. A puffed up monstrosity. A very tense looking but really loose writing. Means nothing to me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 06:34:31 2021 No.19494042 File: 305 KB, 900x675, 5CB9ACEA-37B1-4339-81E2-2FF5C6C6B51A.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19493557 Walter Scott

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 06:39:26 2021 No.19494053 File: 117 KB, 208x281, Thomas Carlyle.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19493557

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 06:46:11 2021 No.19494075 File: 10 KB, 250x172, bfg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19493557 poetry like proust is god

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 06:47:27 2021 No.19494081 >>19493557 Joyce and Ezra

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 06:59:07 2021 No.19494108 >>19493557 Faulkner

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 07:04:27 2021 No.19494119 >>19493557 that gay yankee

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 07:06:29 2021 No.19494125 >>19494119 Chuck Palahniuk?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 07:20:06 2021 No.19494153 >>19493606 As did Wilde, but Johnson said Addison and I tend to agree with the big man.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 07:23:46 2021 No.19494166 >>19493557 The long sentence Chads Cormac McCarthy or Thomas Browne.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 08:18:14 2021 No.19494334 >>19493557 Melville

>>	Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 Wed Dec 1 08:21:48 2021 No.19494344 Depends on the style and aesthetic you desire as trying to judge them by a singular metric that they don’t universally share is a fool’s errand.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 08:31:04 2021 No.19494372 Gene Wolfe. He says the big stuff small and the small stuff big.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 08:55:10 2021 No.19494434 >>19493563 Thomas Hardy and it's not even debatable.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 08:58:21 2021 No.19494451 >>19493557 Gass or Burgess. That being said, Tolstoy and Dosto show literature does not need prose per se. I'd also make a huge honorable selection for John Updike

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 09:45:51 2021 No.19494628 >>19493690 really bad. Pale Fire and Ada are good, everything else I've read from him is terrible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 10:49:03 2021 No.19494861 >>19493932 >>19493940 >>19493995 >>19494628 I had no idea he was as bad author. It's extremely confusing to me since he still ends up in /lit/'s top 100 for some reason.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 10:50:37 2021 No.19494867 File: 27 KB, 194x193, bocchi knows the answer.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19494334 this

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 10:52:16 2021 No.19494870 tbqhwyf Schopenhauer translations tend to be s-tier English prose it's all about the soul behind the words

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 12:56:55 2021 No.19495455 >>19494451 Dosto did, but Tolstoy is just soap opera trash.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 13:49:02 2021 No.19495708 Sir Thomas Browne

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 13:54:01 2021 No.19495738 >>19494870 Limp wrists typed this

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 13:58:01 2021 No.19495767 >>19494334 the only correct answer

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 14:00:19 2021 No.19495780 Beckett and if you can't see it you're retarded or need to open your mind

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 14:59:53 2021 No.19496072 >>19495780 correct

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 15:54:11 2021 No.19496345 It comes down to personal opinion at some point. I wouldn't say he's the best but Pynchon hasn't been mentioned yet and he's one of my favorites

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 15:59:38 2021 No.19496368 File: 114 KB, 700x1050, 4856EF4C-2F1E-4805-A640-81E5BC332C9C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hp Lovecraft

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 16:12:58 2021 No.19496440 >>19493557 O. K.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 18:04:20 2021 No.19496968 >>19493606 Who is that?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 18:43:39 2021 No.19497124 The prose of Emily Dickinson in her letters.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 18:52:14 2021 No.19497163 >>19496968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 22:04:41 2021 No.19498026 >>19493940 Oh, bullshit. >>19493995 Pretentious play-pretend >>19494628 If you read The Eye and didn’t like it you’ve got singular preferences.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 22:07:51 2021 No.19498038 >>19494451 >>19493563 Gass and Joyce. Though I’d give it to Joyce, as Gass is pretty patchy with his writing

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 22:14:45 2021 No.19498057 File: 157 KB, 800x400, Nathaniel-Hawthorne.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19493557 >>19494334 Hawthorne

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 22:25:33 2021 No.19498096 >>19498038 I think Gass had the best grasp of syntax. Burgess is very close, but man could Gass write a sentence. I find Joyce to be beautiful but not compelling like Gass was.

Anonymous Wed Dec 1 22:33:20 2021 No.19498136

>>19498096
I think Joyce is the most well rounded prose stylist. But Gass’s prose, although inferior, is so REAL. I don’t know the correct word to use besides that, it’s like if prose had the grandness of poetry through being as common and low as possible.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 23:06:52 2021 No.19498253 >>19493557 Patrick Rothfuss!

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 23:14:10 2021 No.19498288 It's difficult to be a prose stylist in English. It's very simplistic(as in lacking features rather than unnecessary complexity) and inflexible in terms of grammar.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 23:34:17 2021 No.19498366 >>19497163 Joyce was talking about Cardinal Newman.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 23:39:07 2021 No.19498375 >>19497163 is there anything he can't do?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 23:40:45 2021 No.19498382 >>19498288 GET BACK IN YOUR BUNKER KLAUS

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 1 23:43:35 2021 No.19498389 >>19493557 wodehouse

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 00:28:46 2021 No.19498532 >>19498288 >meanwhile all the most famous prose stylists are in English ESL insecurity strikes again

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 00:29:51 2021 No.19498538 >>19498288 >It's very simplistic(as in lacking features rather than unnecessary complexity) Meaningless >and inflexible in terms of grammar. Not even remotely accurate. Hang yourself brownskin

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 00:34:39 2021 No.19498557 >>19498057 absolutely not, he is completely unremarkable

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 02:13:37 2021 No.19498847 >>19498288 hitler dubs

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 02:16:26 2021 No.19498857 >>19498288 its simplistic because its complex? lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 04:43:52 2021 No.19499158 >>19498389 This guy gets it

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 04:47:43 2021 No.19499164 >>19494053 Correct. No one in English writes like him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 05:43:20 2021 No.19499289 >>19498532 >>meanwhile all the most famous prose stylists are in English No? Only time when anglos get good prose stylists is when some ESL like nabokov tries their native language techniques

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 05:45:12 2021 No.19499296 >>19499289 So is he or is he not a good author? >>19493932 >>19493940 >>19493995 >>19494628

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 05:56:55 2021 No.19499326 Proust >inb4 english dilate, mutt

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 13:43:47 2021 No.19500980 File: 31 KB, 490x736, gug.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19493557 Pynchman

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 2 15:35:04 2021 No.19501671 >>19499296 yes

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