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Is he the greatest American novelist since Melville? Poets excepted.

>> No.17229716

bump

>> No.17229720

>>17228839
Maybe. As much as I love Faulkner, Gaddis was just so good.

>> No.17230354
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>>17228839
Maybe until DAVID FOSTER WALLACE came around, homie.

>> No.17230520

which poets are great novelists?

>> No.17230532

>>17228839
if he was as ugly as pynchon he wouldve been

>> No.17231029

>>17228839
Yes.

>> No.17231227

>>17228839
He was a 3rd rate postmodernist. You have to be incredibly delusional to think of him as the best writer since Heller, let alone Melville

>> No.17231915

>>17228839
Him and Faulkner.
>>17231227
Heller is shit.

>> No.17232717

>>17231915
based

>> No.17232769

>>17230354
seems more a part of his beard than a mustache.