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22142791 No.22142791 [Reply] [Original]

The greatest American writer to ever live.

>> No.22142798

Well yeah

>> No.22142800

Inb4 the seething ESL tries to derail a Faulkner thread.

>> No.22142805
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22142805

Not so fast. This mas has written more than Fraudner ever has.

>> No.22142817

Walt whitman

>> No.22142822

It was Hawthorne or Poe. Faulkner is probably the most overrated writer to ever live.

>> No.22142827
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>>22142791
Inferior in every way to the real one

>> No.22142944

>>22142791
OP here. I used the wrong picture.

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>>22142944

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22142984

Nah its Lovecraft

>> No.22142994

>>22142791
what book to start reading this nigga

>> No.22143095
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22143095

Move aside, chuds.

>> No.22143170

>>22142994
Start with The Sound and the Fury

>> No.22143335

>>22142827
I don’t think anyone would disagree that Melville is the quintessential American writer, along with Irving of course.

>> No.22143356

>>22143095
>First book is about boomer cuckold fantasy/impotency
Dropped

>> No.22143384

>>22142827
Herman wrote the best novel but Bill has the stronger total oeuvre.

>> No.22143394

>>22143384
This

>> No.22143558

>>22142791
what a grim story, it must be profound. would it insist on its poetry if it wasn't poetic. look at how evil this character is. he is a complete asshole. wow.

>> No.22143562

>>22143558
>the authors barely disguised schizo babble

>> No.22143573

>>22143170
>>22142994
Don't start with that. TSATF is very complex and better saved for when you can fully comprehend what Faulkner is all about. As I lay dying is much gentler if less powerful and probably a worse overall book. Still a great read though

>> No.22145189

>>22142791
>Ben's voice roared and roared. Queenie moved again, her feet began to clop-clop steadily again, and at once Ben hushed. Luster looked quickly back over his shoulder, then he drove on. The broken flower drooped over Ben's fist and his eyes were empty and blue and serene again as cornice and facade flowed smoothly once more from left to right, post and tree, window and doorway and signboard each in its ordered place
>Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

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22145202

Sorry OP, but it is actually Hemingway

>>22143356
filtered, I think retards have a hard time understanding Hemingway because his prose is so simple.

>> No.22145206

>>22142791
Not much competition

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>>22142791
>>22142827
>>22142950
>>22142984
>>22143095
>>22145202
Plz fellas, yr pick have a nationally coveted award named after him?

>> No.22145325

>>22145202
What’s so great about Hemingway?