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Greatest Literature figures:
1. Homer
2. Dante
3. Shakespeare
4. Cervantes
5. Tolstoy
6. Goethe
7. Melville
8. Dostoevsky
9: Chaucer
10. Proust
8.

>> No.23038623

>>23038617
No dickens?

>> No.23038627

>>23038623
Dickens sucks. Next

>> No.23038631

>>23038627
Would you say he sucks Dickens?

>> No.23038635

>>23038617
Huh, all of them seem to be concentrated in Europe and honky men...wow...

Proust sucks ass too, pseud

>> No.23038640

>>23038617
Not bad, actually. I don't really see the appeal of Goethe but overall not bad.

>> No.23038642

>>23038627
No he does NOT. Justify your claim

>> No.23038647

>>23038642
Boring. Next
>>23038635
Western literature is the only category of literature that matters. Next

>> No.23038736

>>23038647
Justify your claim

>> No.23038753

>>23038617
>no milton

>> No.23038756

>>23038642
he was extremely cruel to his wife, it's best he's forgotten about

>> No.23038763

>>23038617
Tolstoy, Melville, Dostoevsky, Chaucer and Proust do NOT deserve to be on that list, as great as they are.

>> No.23038767

>>23038617
Nietzche

>> No.23038779

>one hit wonder on the list
Melville npcs are fucking delusional

>> No.23038788

>>23038779
It's not like dante or cervantes are relevant outside of their one important work

>> No.23038791

>>23038617
Melville is too high. Proust is too low. Still, good list.

>> No.23038801

>>23038788
>putting melville up with them
Melvillevnpcs are fucking delusional.
>>23038791
Neither belong on the list. Imagine actually believing that a homosexual bourgeois belongs on this list.

>> No.23038823

>>23038756
Bro Homer was blind and Shakespeare was a theater nerd. Those are way worse

>> No.23038833

>>23038617
>it’s another my favorite writer is better than your favorite writer…just because I said so thread

It’s all so tiring and unproductive

>> No.23038838

>>23038617
"literature" is not an adjective
Why does a second number 8 follow number 10?
Melville doesn't belong on that list. Though he wrote a long book that is highly regarded he didn't do anything particularly innovative or influential. There is no "Melvillian" style of writing. He is only celebrated because Americans currently dominate the English-language cultural discourse.
Joyce should be added.

>> No.23038842

Most people who “rate” Proust so highly have never read past Volume 1.

>> No.23038845

>>23038833
>expecting the literature board on an anonymous anime discussion website to be "productive"

>> No.23038849

>>23038635
Kill yourself though you're right about Prosut
>>23038753
This

>> No.23038858

>>23038635
Shalom, reddit

>> No.23038864

>>23038627
Dickens filters pseuds

>> No.23038866

>>23038617
Of the ones you listed only Homer, Chaucer, and Dante are great.

>> No.23038868

>>23038617
For me it's Apuleius

>> No.23038870

Homer isn't even a real person, so there's at least one free spot here. I nominate Gertrude Stein.

>> No.23038877

>>23038870
Fuck off, retard

>> No.23038883

>>23038877
wasnt homer a gay man from rome

>> No.23038884

>>23038877
Were you even there bro? Did you see Homer composing the Iliad? No? Then gtfo kiddo. Pics or it didn't happen

>> No.23038903
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23038903

>I nominate Gertrude Stein

>> No.23039027

>>23038617
>1. Homer
>2. Dante
>3. Shakespeare
Respectable.
>4. Cervantes
A bit high I think, but Don Quixote is so overwhelmingly great that I can't begrudge him this position
>5. Tolstoy
Bot my cup of tea personally.
>Goethe
Deserves to be higher than Tolstoy at least. Faust was monumental
>7. Melville
>8. Dostoevsky
Come on now, I love them both but they don't deserve top 10 of all time.
>9: Chaucer
>10. Proust
You just put these two here for brownie points. (Also Pearl and Flaubert are better, bite me)

>> No.23039043

>>23038801
meds

>> No.23039052

>>23038617
I ain't give a fuck about your gay list, I just wanna say I adore that image on a spiritual level.
I hope whoever made it is doing well.

>> No.23039212

19th and 20th century in no particular order

Flaubert
Henry James
Dickens
Dostoyevsky
Hemingway
Lawrence
Austen
Kafka
Faulkner
Joyce

>> No.23039297

whats so great about homer that makes him better than everyone else?

>> No.23039427

>>23038842
Project more

>> No.23039433

>>23038903
you may not like it, but this is what all highbrow literature enjoyers truly look like

>> No.23039451

>>23038627
>Dickens sucks
filtered

>> No.23039525

I have only read Moby Dick. Are any of Melville's other books worth reading?

>> No.23039547

>>23038801
>implying a single writer isn’t bourgeoisie

>> No.23039787

>>23038617
1. Homer
2. Dante
3. Virgil
4. Shakespeare
5. Hugo
6. Horace
7. Petrarca
8. Cervantes
9. Rimbaud
10. Goethe

>> No.23040824

>>23038617
Half of them are absolutely useless and didn't state universal truths

>> No.23040872

>>23039427
Can’t cope when I have read the entirety of Proust’s Recherche thrice, you petit faggot

>> No.23041161

>>23040872
>I don't really like this 4000 page book so I read it three times so I could debate people on /lit/ about it!
>en francais btw!! j'ai appris a lire un langage qu'a la moitie des mots le meme que l'anglais
Wow, big win for you...?

>> No.23041534

>>23038617
i hate this picture, it's so пoшлaя

>> No.23041542

>>23041161
Where did I even say that I didn’t like Proust, you illiterate retard?

>> No.23041566

>>23038617
Urobuchi Gen
Setoguchi Renya

>> No.23041603

>>23041542
>Most people who “rate” Proust so highly have never read past Volume 1.
I couldn't see why you'd say this except to imply that there is something in the other volumes that would discourage them from rating it highly. Now, however, it's clear to me that you literally just wanted to publicize the fact that you have read the book. Congratulations! You did it!!

>> No.23041647

>>23041603
Wow you’re genuinely fucking dumb. Your 30 braincells see that sentence and that is what is parses? Sounds a bit insecure and maybe I hit too close to home for you?

>> No.23041729

>>23041647
A lot of people say it falls off in the middle, I just assumed you were expounding that opinion. You're still obnoxious but I have played the fool, mea culpa.

>> No.23041827
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23041827

>writes a fanfic
>one of the greatest literature figures
Really makes you think.

>> No.23041868

>>23038866
Not quite. Chaucer is great in his cultural significance but not as a writer. The great writers listed are Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, and Tolstoy. And Milton should be added to the list.

>> No.23041921

>>23041868
I became nauseous reading this post, thanks anon.

>> No.23042206

>>23038617
Put Shakespeare at 1 and lower Homer and Tolstoi and it's good.