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Who is the Proust of the English language?

>> No.11199809

Moncrieff

>> No.11199826

>>11199809
This. Also Joyce, Woolf, and James to a degree, although even they’re not quite as elaborate and hyper-detailed in the same way Proust is, in my opinion.

>> No.11199855

Kanye West

>> No.11199897

>>11199855
this but postironically

>> No.11199967

>>11199786
Woolf without a doubt

>> No.11200063

>>11199809
G1 m8. Kinda true tho

>> No.11200066

>>11199786
Alasdair Gray

>> No.11200086

Sterne

>> No.11200096

Proust, translated into English

>> No.11200101

>>11199786
Lydia Davis

>> No.11200126

>>11199809
what's the deal here?
t. non-Anglo

>> No.11200579

>>11199786
File deleted. Lol.

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>>11200096
well played

>> No.11200644

Maybe Melville but not exactly

>> No.11200647

>>11200126
Moncrieff was the first translator for In Search of Lost Time