[ 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: 451 KB, 443x583, floreda.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
[ERROR] No.2182787 [Reply] [Original]

Who is your favourite writer from:

>Ireland
>Britain
>America
>France

>> No.2182790

>Ireland
JOYCE
>Britain
SOMERSET
>America
MELVILLE
>France
HUGO

THIS IS THE ONLY CORRECT ANSWER EXCEPT MAYBE PROUST FOR FRANCE

>> No.2182792

>>2182790
moby dick was 40% terrible.

>> No.2182801

>>2182792
maybe YOU should learn a THING or TWO and grow the fuck UP

>> No.2182804

>Ireland
James Joyce
>Britain
T.S. Eliot (I guess he counts as British)
>America
Faulkner
>French
Camus

Hooray for entry level taste

>> No.2182810

>>2182804
>Ulysses - entry level
Nope.
>The Wasteland - entry level
Nope.
>The Sound and the Fury - entry level
Nope.

Did I just get trolled softly?

>> No.2182812
File: 27 KB, 283x345, byronphillips.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
[ERROR]

>Swift (then Yeats, then Wilde)
>Lord Byron (Shakespeare, Scott, Stevenson, Pope and Marlowe following closely behind)
>Emerson (I also love Frost)
>Voltaire (Baudelaire for poetry)

This thread would've been even better if it'd included German, Greek and Italian writers (because, let's face it, that would've completed the pantheon of national literary excellence).

>> No.2182813

>>2182810

Maybe the pretentiosness of /lit/ just got me thinking that I was Babby's first literature. Joyce was one of the first writers I got into when I started reading properly.

>> No.2182815

>Ireland
beckett
>Britain
austen
>America
o'connor
>French
balzac

>> No.2182816

>>2182812

>German, Greek and Italian writers

Then the thread would be flooded with

>Kafka
>Homer
>Dante

>> No.2182824
File: 145 KB, 550x550, cryroth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
[ERROR]

>>2182815

Britain gave literature Chaucer, Pope, Dryden, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Gray, Fielding, Bryon, Shelley(s), Wordsworth, Spenser, Keats, Scott, Stevenson, Milton, Hume, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Burke, Dickens, Conan Doyle and so very many others that don't immediately come to mind and you pick Austen?

>> No.2182826

>Ireland
Beckett
>Britain
Forster
>America
Pynchon
>France
Proust

>> No.2182829

>>2182816

All of whom are fantastics writers. It's going to be flooded with Sartre and Camus, but that's no reason to discount France. Also, I've just noticed that I forgot to include Russia - a foolish oversight.

>> No.2182837

>>2182829

>Russia

Dostoevsky
Tolstoy

Everywhere

>> No.2182838

Joyce
Shakespeare
Faulkner
lol France

>> No.2182839

>>2182824
and yet none of those mentioned, save chaucer and shakes, approach her ironic magnanimity. fuck off.

>> No.2182866

>>2182839

If you can't even be bothered to write Shakespeare's name then I'm supposing that you haven't read enough of his work to realise that he, in every fathomable aspect, pisses all over Austen. Also, I despise anyone who insists upon little Jane's 'ironic' anything!

>> No.2182873

>Ireland
I've yet to read any Irish writers.
>Britain
Probably Thomas Hardy.
>America
Hemingway or Fitzgerald.
>France
Flaubert.

All of these writers are pretty entry level. But, in my defense, I have only been reading for my own pleasure or whatever for the past year or so.

>> No.2182875

>>2182787
So far I'd have to say:

Wilde
Tolkien
Bukowski
Saint-Exupéry

>> No.2182891

>>2182873

>I've yet to read any Irish writers.

Step up nigga.

Joyce
Beckett
Wilde
Yeats
Swift

Start there.

>> No.2182896

>>2182873

>Entry level

Stop being so hard on yourself. There are individuals more intelligent than anyone who has ever, or will ever, post on /lit/ who have dedicate their careers to the study of Wilde. What's more, I bet they (just like you, I'm sure) still enjoyed reading The Importance of Being Earnest up until their deaths.

>> No.2182907

>Ireland
W.B. Yeats
>Britain
Virginia Woolf
>America
Philip K. Dick
>France
The only French writer I've read is Camus.

>> No.2182909

>>2182866
favorite != greatest
while i'll concede there are stronger writers, she is still my favorite.

>> No.2182913

>>2182891

If you're going to prescribe Irish writers then you'd better not forget Laurence Sterne. Tristram Shandy's one of the most satisfying reads I've ever had.

>> No.2182918

>>2182913

I've never read any of his works. I might check it out.

>> No.2183001
File: 9 KB, 250x248, voltaire3.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
[ERROR]

>Ireland
NA
>Britain
Thomas Paine
>America
Thomas Paine
>France
Eric Blair
(Come to think of it, I don't keep favourites)

>>2182804
>>2182907
Camus is Algerian.

>> No.2183004

Oscar Wilde
Charlotte Bronte
John Steinbeck
Camus

>> No.2183032
File: 8 KB, 272x252, Scotch-Scroty.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
[ERROR]

>>2183004
He's Algerian.
OP clearly said "your favourite writer FROM:"
Not "your favourite writer from these languages"

>> No.2183037

>>2183001

french-algerian

>> No.2183038

>>2183032
FROM THE FRENCH EMPIRE?

>> No.2183046
File: 122 KB, 898x1400, Napoleon III franz_xaver_winterhalter.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
[ERROR]

>>2183038
The wha-?

>>2183037
Technicality. Still not what the OP said.

>> No.2183051

>>2183046
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire

>> No.2183116

Beckett, Rushdie, Auster, Rimbaud.

Rushdie is knighted, he counts.

>> No.2183127

>Ireland
Joyce
>Britain
Ishiguro
>America
McCarthy
>France
Dumas