[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 417 KB, 1200x1200, william-shakespeare-194895-1-402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21501901 No.21501901 [Reply] [Original]

Which novelist is equivalent to Shakespeare?

>> No.21502223

1. YOU MEAN «WHAT», NOT «WHICH».

2. «SHAKESPEARE», IF HE EXISTED, NEVER WROTE A SINGLE NOVEL.

>> No.21502247

Faulkner. Disregard the ESL.

>> No.21502249

William Faulkner

>> No.21502364

Walter Scott is closest in tone to Shakespeare, with the characters speaking in soliloquy, ornate speech etc. He often feels like a novelisation of shake like you used to get novelisations of big movies.
But yeah, Faulkner. Got the right mix of tragedy and slapstick lulz. Dickens can't do the serious stuff, the Russians and French can't do the retarded dick joke laundry basket stuff

>> No.21502380

Faulkner and Melville.

>> No.21502383

>>21501901
Cervantes and Rabelais

>> No.21502392
File: 1.70 MB, 3024x2556, 4A73E1E9-E499-4CD3-8D12-A631FE42502F.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21502392

Start with the Dick

>> No.21502399

>>21502223
Lmao, lol even.

>> No.21502409

Nabokov or Joyce. Shakespeare is full of lewd puns and obscure in-jokes, packed full.

>> No.21502410
File: 2.75 MB, 480x270, 1672917551459072.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21502410

>>21502223

>> No.21502488

>>21502247
>>21502249
>>21502364
>>21502380
What's Faulkner's best?

>> No.21502543

>>21502488
Absalom, Absalom!
I reread it every once in a while, it never ceases to appease, and it's always a different experience.
I really like all of his novels.

>> No.21502913

>>21502364
>Dickens can't do the serious stuff,
Why do you say that?

>> No.21503512
File: 17 KB, 300x400, faulkner_william.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
21503512

>>21502488
>>21502543
Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Sound and the Fury (his most difficult and experimental work), Lay down, Moses, Sanctuary, and his short stories are quite good. Anybody who enjoys Shakespeare (at his darkest, with tragedies such as Macbeth and Hamlet) cannot fail to love Faulkner, who both survives and demands endless re-readings. Critical literature on Faulkner leaves a lot to be desired. I cannot stand Faulkner scholarship, personally.

>> No.21503765

>>21501901
Corncob or Pink Steven

>> No.21503789

>>21503512
But what, prey tell, was Faulkner's opinion on television?

>> No.21504231

>>21501901
No one even comes close.

Yeah, Faulkner is great, but he does not remotely have the same range that Shakespeare does.

>> No.21504307

>>21504231
But he and Melville best channel the energies of his works with their prose, at least in American history.

>> No.21504315

>>21501901
Proust. No one else comes close.

>> No.21504322

>>21502409
Idiot.