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What are the best examples of sublime prose writing you can think of? Anonymous Sun Sep 17 05:10:16 2017 No.10034293 [Reply] [Original]

I want to read the best of what literature has to offer. So far i'm thinking of trying Virginia Woolf and, although its translated, Marcel Proust. What else? No poetry.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 05:13:42 2017 No.10034296 File: 11 KB, 251x242, 1500804373844.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >sublime prose >proust

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:05:24 2017 No.10034515 Infinite Jest, part with the drunken dad talking about Brando

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:16:23 2017 No.10034539 homer and old testament

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:19:04 2017 No.10034551 >>10034296 >frogposter >ever anything of value

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:20:04 2017 No.10034556 >>10034551 There's a frogshitter on here who likes Woolf. That's improvement, I feel.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:20:59 2017 No.10034558 >>10034539 >old testament I've read like 30 pages of this and the prose is okay but I don't understand why everyone completely shits themselves over it like it's the GOAT

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:26:12 2017 No.10034573 >>10034293 Flaubert, Hamsun, Joyce

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:32:20 2017 No.10034581 Schnitzler Nabokov Joyce McCarthy Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:34:25 2017 No.10034590 Gogol

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:42:42 2017 No.10034614 File: 99 KB, 798x798, smilelaugh.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10034581 >McCarthy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:43:28 2017 No.10034616 Melville.

Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:44:43 2017 No.10034620

nabokov's mastery of english (and presumably russian too, although i can't read russian so cannot comment) is unparalleled - imagine joyce if joyce didn't have to spend 20 years writing each book and wasn't the highbrow equivalent of a teenager using a thesaurus for every other word in their essay

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:45:16 2017 No.10034624 >>10034293 The Great Gatsby. Nothing comes close to it for me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:45:57 2017 No.10034625 >>10034620 >the highbrow equivalent of a teenager using a thesaurus for every other word in their essay you're disgusting anon.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:46:09 2017 No.10034626 >>10034293 Fanged Noumena

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 07:54:01 2017 No.10034646 >>10034293 William Gass, Joseph McElroy, Jason Schwartz

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 17 08:28:14 2017 No.10034741 >>10034293 take the Mann-pill already

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