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19007596 No.19007596 [Reply] [Original]

Admit it: She's the best writer of the 20th century, and it isn't particularly close

>> No.19007640

>>19007596
No, that'd be Joyce or Pessoa.

>> No.19007846
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19007846

>>19007596

>> No.19007989

She is one of my all time favorites, but no, that isn't fair to say

>> No.19008023

>>19007596
Joyce is the best, hell even that closeted manlet Faulkner is better than her

>> No.19008028

>>19007596
I agree.

>> No.19008106

>>19007596
Based

>>19007846
Midwit detected

>> No.19008483

>>19007596
She isn't even the best English writer of that century. Doesn't make it to a top five either.
Hell, she might not even be the best female English writer of that century.

>> No.19008492

>>19007596
How is her profile so good but she looks hideous in frontal shots?

>> No.19008499

>>19007846
His fatness automatically disqualifies him.

>> No.19008514

>>19007596
Nah, m8. Past a certain point, there's no distinguishing who's "best." You'd first have to clearly define a rubric with which you might evaluate the greats.

>> No.19009473

>>19007596
Only if you’re a woman who just ended their dalliance with YA and started reading real literature

>> No.19009481

>>19007846
based

>> No.19009544

Why is /lit/ filled to the brim with mindless sycophants? Why is it so hard to find a single user on this board whose favorites aren't incredibly safe and approved™ by academicians?
>Who's the best author of the 20th century?
>Oh, Woolf! No, Joyce! No, Faulkner! No, Hemingway! No, Celine!
Makes me fucking sick. Broaden your horizons. Form your own opinions. Have confidence in your taste. Be a person who can provide literary commentary that isn't completely redundant.

>> No.19009894

>>19009544
Who are your favorites then anon

>> No.19010066

>>19009894
Jordan Peterson

>> No.19011865

>>19007596
Who is this

>> No.19011867

>>19009894
Salley Rooney

>> No.19011872

>>19007596
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>> No.19011882

>>19007596
I’m new here I literally don’t know help

>> No.19011884

>>19007596
Yep

>>19007640
>>19008023
Woolf and Joyce are close in terms of their luminosity. They are different, Woolf more lyrical and oneiric, Joyce more abstractionist and hallucinatory. I can't say one is better than the other, but Woolf is certainly among the greatest English language literary talents to ever live, and certainly underrated by this board.

>>19007846
Nah

>> No.19011909

Woolf knew she paled in comparison to Joyce as a modernist author, which is why she "hated" Ulysses so much. In actuality, she probably read it and realized that it was 100x better than anything she could ever write.

>> No.19011930
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19011930

>Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like that! I cry. And at the moment such is the astonishing vibration and saturation and intensification that he procures—there’s something sexual in it—that I feel I can write like that, and seize my pen and then I can’t write like that. Scarcely anyone so stimulates the nerves of language in me: it becomes an obsession. But I must return to Swann.
>My great adventure is really Proust. Well—what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there are, I suppose, faults to be found, but I am in a state of amazement; as if a miracle were being done before my eyes. How, at last, has someone solidified what has always escaped—and made it too into this beautiful and perfectly enduring substance? One has to put the book down and gasp. The pleasure becomes physical—like sun and wine and grapes and perfect serenity and intense vitality combined.
>Jacques Raverat...sent me a letter about Mrs Dalloway which gave me one of the happiest moments days of my life. I wonder if this time I have achieved something? Well, nothing anyhow compared with Proust, in whom I am embedded now. The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut & as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom. And he will I suppose both influence me & make out of temper with every sentence of my own.

nothing more than a bargain bin Proust

>> No.19011933

>>19007596
>the best writer of the 20th century
I would argue that Eliot, Mann, Mishima, and Sebald would also be contenders for that prize.

>> No.19011948

No, she's terrible and people who like her tend to be the most boring people you'll ever meet.

>> No.19011972

>>19007596
Safe but also undeniably true

>> No.19012035

>>19008023
He was not closeted.

>> No.19012071

>>19007596
McCarthy.
Joyce, Mann and Borges before her too.

>> No.19012289

>>19007596
Best writer is a bit much, but she probably has the title of best (anglo) novelist. At least four excellent books that are all meaningfully different from each other.

>> No.19012300

>>19007596
She would be forgotten if not for her pussy.

>> No.19012325

>>19012289
>four excellent books that are all meaningfully different from each other
Haven't read the Waves(couldn't understand anything when I tried) but you're right, she certainly wasn't someone who wrote the same book again and again