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Best Contemporary Dialogue Writers Anonymous Mon Jul 16 17:52:13 2018 No.11472134 [Reply] [Original]

Since this can undergo changes in style due to time. Is DFW a good dialogue writer?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 17:54:38 2018 No.11472150 File: 73 KB, 529x529, 358EF293-1526-4B77-A0FE-9C01AC6ECF2B.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >”Your wife’s hair is a living wonder” >”Yes it is” >”She has important hair”

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 19:13:49 2018 No.11472487 >>11472150 Am I a pleb for being driven crazy by how much DeLillo truly did not give a fuck about authentic dialogue in that book

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 19:16:53 2018 No.11472503 >>11472487 No. I have never hated a book more than I hate White Noise

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Anonymous Mon Jul 16 19:28:58 2018 No.11472559

>>11472134
He and his sort write dialogue that wouldn't be out of place in a sitcom or a movie. It's not bad, but it's not literary either. When I think of literary dialogue I think of that which is mostly divorced reality, highly theatrical, and only really makes sense on the page and within the mood and narrative that the author's arranged for it. So DeLillo is, IMO, a very literary writer of dialogue. Hemingway too. Salinger is a very readable and natural writer of dialogue, but not that literary, whereas Dostoevsky is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 19:30:23 2018 No.11472565 >>11472134 McCarthy's dialogue is great. All the Pretty Horses' seemed nearly effortless.

Anonymous Mon Jul 16 19:34:49 2018 No.11472586
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>>11472559
>highly theatrical
Theatricized dialogue in what I consider to be literary is crazytalk. Subtlety is everything to me. Alice Munro, Raymond Carever, Eudora Welty, Chekhov, even Corncob YeCarthy, are all masters of contemporary dialogue. It's another example of show over tell, in which you get the full organic experience in which these characters behave and react to one another. I prefer the subdued over the ridiculous bombast.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:20:09 2018 No.11473210 >>11472134 William Gaddis is GOAT

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:25:46 2018 No.11473237 >>11472134 >Is DFW a good dialogue writer? sometimes, but he's better at portraying inner monologue

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:27:48 2018 No.11473248 >>11472503 >>11473210 shut the fuck up

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:28:33 2018 No.11473255 >>11473248 White Noise is pleb tier garbage

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:53:39 2018 No.11473359 I know this is /lit/, but Richard Linklater and Aaron Sorkin

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:55:55 2018 No.11473370 >>11473255 what's wrong with White Noise/DeLillo? I was planning on reading it soon

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 22:57:05 2018 No.11473375 >>11473359 + David Mamet

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 16 23:11:25 2018 No.11473429 >>11473248 Gaddis IS goat

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 17 00:50:11 2018 No.11473756 >>11473359 I'm still convinced Linklater is /the/ man to do an Infinite Jest movie/tv series adaptation

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