Faulkner vs Hemingway

[Anonymous No.10970948]

Which one do /lit/izens prefer and why?

https://strawpoll.com/fygshar4

[Anonymous No.10970962]

Why do I have to like one more than the other? Its not like they have that similar of a style

[Anonymous No.10970966]

>>10970948
Faulkner... anyone who names Hemingway as ‘great’ really hasn’t got a clue

[Anonymous No.10971052]

>>10970966
Hemingway isn’t bad though, he just took Flaubert’s philosophy of style (which is imo perfect) and radicalized it to the point of pretension. The sweet spot is somewhere around Tolstoy/Flaubert, who allow for the occasional flourish but for the most part write clearly and precisely.

[Anonymous No.10971522]

Faulkner when he's not being Faulkner is my favorite author, so Faulkner. But when using a third person narrator I prefer Hemingway

[Anonymous No.10971968]

Hemmingway is more consistence, but Faulker is hot when he's hot.

As Flannery O'Connor once said, "Faulkner would be considered a fag, even in the Northeast"

[Anonymous No.10971976]

>>10971968
>As Flannery O'Connor once said, "Faulkner would be considered a fag, even in the Northeast"
wot

[Anonymous No.10972019]

>>10971052
strange how Hemingway, Joyce, and Nabokov are all descendants of Flaubert.

[Anonymous No.10972029]

>>10972019
They were related?

[Anonymous No.10972041]

>>10972019
t. Pierre

[Anonymous No.10972163]

nice to see that /lit/ can disagree iwth nabokov

[Anonymous No.10972175]

>>10972019
So is Kafka

[Anonymous No.10972185]

>>10972163
retard

[Anonymous No.10972194]

>>10972185
indeed you are

[Anonymous No.10972226]

>>10970948
Faulkner. I like Hemingway, but Faulkner's language and themes are just more in my wheelhouse.

[Anonymous No.10972235]

Where's the neither option?

[Anonymous No.10972241]

>>10970948


Hemmingway is for people who like to pretend they are enjoying literature and culture. Faulkner is for people who actually enjoy it without putting on a facade.

[Anonymous No.10972246]

>>10970966
Love these newqueers who weren't here for the old Hemingway threads

[Anonymous No.10972338]

>>10972241
maybe in general life but not here

[Anonymous No.10972354]

>Hemingway is bad because he wrote minimalistically

[Anonymous No.10972362]

>>10972354
>Hemingway is good because he wrote minimalistically

[Anonymous No.10972377]

>>10971522
>Faulkner when he's not being Faulkner
I understand what you mean, but respectfully disagree, IMO that's when he's at his best.

[Anonymous No.10973520]

Faulkner is objectively better but I like Hemingway more personally.

[Anonymous No.10974055]

>le corncobby chronicler

hemingway

[Anonymous No.10974060]

both were violent drunks

[Anonymous No.10974088]

Hemingway can’t be touched in terms of short fiction. It is what his style was built for. Faulkner is the stronger novelist, both in invention and ambition. This argument between the two has always struck me as an apples/oranges thing since it kind of depends on which form you prefer. I’m aesthetically drawn to the shorter form these days, so my vote went to Hemingway.

[Anonymous No.10974142]

>>10973520
>Faulkner is objectively better but I like Hemingway more personally.

I hate this. Here's how I feel about art. If you like an artist more, then they're better (for you). Saying you like one but the other is better is being insincere. If they were better (for you) then you would prefer them. You can say they're better in some aspect, and that you don't find that important, but to say one is better completely, even though you like the other more just doesn't make any sense.

[Anonymous No.10974194]

I'd ride Hemmy into battle in a heartbeat, but for reading it's gotta be Faulkner.

[Anonymous No.10974207]

>>10974142
Shakespeare is objectively a better writer than whoever, but there's plenty of other people I like more and would prefer to read instead. It's not hard to understand, you autist. You can understand and appreciate the quality of something without enjoying it as much as something else.

[Anonymous No.10974246]

>>10971052
>>10972019
>>10972175
Flaubert is the final boss of prose. Monoglot fags don't know nothin.

[Anonymous No.10974251]

Faulkner because he has a cool multistage.

[Anonymous No.10974263]

>>10974207
you're the autist who missed the entire point of what they said

[Anonymous No.10974298]

>>10974263
That you can't think that something is objectively better than something else and can only make relative statements about how you feel about it? That's just as retarded.

[Anonymous No.10974418]

>>10970948
CORNCOBBY CHRONICLE

[Anonymous No.10974421]

>>10974142
No.

[Anonymous No.10974427]

I'd just like to point out that today is April 8th, so it's been 90 years since the events of the final chapter of TSATF

[Anonymous No.10976326]

>>10974427
totally planned

[Anonymous No.10976344]

>>10972019
Flaubert invented the modern novel so it isn't surprising

[Anonymous No.10976364]

>>10976344
I thought that was Cervantes.

[Anonymous No.10976510]

>>10974246
every literary girl has cried at the ending of Madame Bovary and calls it her fav novel. you arent special - fuck off pierre

[Anonymous No.10976523]

>>10970948
Hemingway btfo?

[Anonymous No.10976742]

>>10974142
jesus, no

[Anonymous No.10977808]

>be me
>be William Faulkner
>resting on a bench next to the Jefferson station where Young Lucas once leapt down on the rails under the 404 express as it came into town with nineteen dozen confederate soldiers returning from the plains defeated melancholy destitute and suffering a wound that time could never heal
>the 404 express with the engineman a wailing for to never surrender no matter no how and the fireman shovelin and shovelin and sweatin for his dear beloved South and the trainman hanging off the footboard waving his cap through the air to signal to the station master what the station master must surely have already known was the case – that the South the dear beloved South was fallen – and did so with a smile ‘cus he no there aint no way the South will ever fall in the real sense but rather just face defeat like it had faced prior defeats from which it would no doubt stand up and walk proudly again sometime
>and when Young Lucas leapt onto the rails beneath the 404 express he was leaping onto a dream trying to protect it from what the carriages full of damaged and wounded confederate soldiers represented but that no good man of the South could ever or would ever admit – that the South could be brought down
>and time in time would come around and heal the wounds the entire people who populated those treasonous and proud stateships which abandoned the union and defended their course and returned albeit wounded and melancholy but not ever truly defeated and stood against those who were not of the South nor could ever be of the South but who still felt justified in destroying it
>to think of Young Lucas and all his youthful naivete and pride and sadness to jump below the 404 express as it brought in to station the artifacts of a bygone era before it was quite bygone – the South as we all envisioned it before it was no more
>bearded man approaches
>it’s Hemingway
>“Hey, didn't some kid kill himself here back in the day?”
>fuck you Hemingway
>mfw

[Anonymous No.10977974]

>>10977808

Well played.

[Anonymous No.10977986]

>>10976364
Cervantes revolutionized the prose narrative, but Flaubert invented the "modern" novel.

[Anonymous No.10978000]

>>10977808

perfect, thank you for this

[Anonymous No.10978160]

>>10976510
I thought the ending of Bovary was suppose to be funny

[Anonymous No.10978652]

>>10972362
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT

[Anonymous No.10978654]

>>10972362
wtf

[Anonymous No.10979444]

[Anonymous No.10979461]

>>10972362
>yoga pants thots
Unf unf unffff

[Anonymous No.10980445]

Faulkner baby

[Anonymous No.10980455]

>>10970948
Cool story bro

[Anonymous No.10980506]

>>10976510
Who the fuck is Pierre?

[Anonymous No.10980548]

>>10980506
you've never heard of Pierre

[Anonymous No.10981974]

>>10972377
It wasn't to say that I dislike him when he's using a third person narrator. I don't, he's still great that way. But as far as I'm concerned the best things he's written are the Benji chapter, the Quentin chapter and Addie's chapter in As I Lay Dying.

[Anonymous No.10983264]

>>10974088
Might have to change my vote here. Just finished reading The Bear and it was fucking phenomenal.

[Anonymous No.10983708]

>>10983264
good

[Anonymous No.10983803]

>>10974142
nah senpai

Faulkner is a better writer, and his prose is infinitely better than hemingways meme brevity.
But, Hemingways themes tickle my pickle, so I prefer to read him

[Anonymous No.10983811]

>>10977808
nice