>Cervantes >Dante >Homer >Shakespeare Are they the top4 writers of all time? Who could be a candidate?

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Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:24:32 2019 No.12621185 [Reply] [Original]

>Cervantes
>Dante
>Homer
>Shakespeare

Are they the top4 writers of all time?
Who could be a candidate?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:25:48 2019 No.12621191 >>12621185 Homer wasn’t a writer Goethe.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:25:53 2019 No.12621192 >>12621185 yeah that's about right, maybe Goethe would be a contender, maybe Tolstoy as well

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:26:13 2019 No.12621195 >>12621185 >Pessoa >No Joyce What the fuck is this?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:27:31 2019 No.12621202 >>12621185 who is that between Pessoa and Hugo? >>12621195 top right corner

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:28:02 2019 No.12621204 >>12621185 you cant quantify writing in itself and even if you could those conclusions would be meaningless

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:28:51 2019 No.12621208 File: 236 KB, 1118x1074, 1543138604426.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] David Foster Ronald Reuel de Ortega y Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:30:16 2019 No.12621215 >>12621202 Moliere

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:34:30 2019 No.12621225 File: 36 KB, 655x527, 02f.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12621185 Candidates for all time greatest that are not those 4: >Plato >Montaigne >Goethe >Wordsworth >Dickens >Proust >DFW

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 16:44:39 2019 No.12621280 >>12621185 >hemingway Stop posting field and stream writers.

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Having a favorites list is understandable.
Surveying what a handful of favorites lists show is okay, bu not very constructive.
Imposing your favorites list as immutably correct and “cannon” is NOT okay.

But enjoy

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 17:44:14 2019 No.12621583 >>12621191 this, also: Dostoyevsky Cervantes Lovecraft Poe

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 17:47:31 2019 No.12621603 >>12621283 Fuck off, tranny.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 17:47:38 2019 No.12621605 >Cervantes kek no the others are great

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 17:52:19 2019 No.12621631 File: 483 KB, 368x452, mfw thread is full of pseuds.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 17:54:25 2019 No.12621638 At least the whole top line should be classical antiquity. Add Plato, Livy, Tacitus and Ovid (assuming wreathman is Virgil)

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 17:55:49 2019 No.12621649 File: 126 KB, 750x1000, mwo,x1000,ipad_2_snap-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.lite-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12621638 >Plato >Livy >great writers

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 17:59:06 2019 No.12621666 >>12621605 The most plebeian post in the thread. Congratulations.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 17:59:48 2019 No.12621668 Austrian modernists were the best writers

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:02:19 2019 No.12621681 >>12621649 Better than 80% of that pic. Plutarch as well while I'm here

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:02:27 2019 No.12621683 >>12621666 A crude and cruel old book.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:03:47 2019 No.12621692 >>12621668 >Austrians >the best at anything

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:04:04 2019 No.12621694 This is easy >Shakespeare >Milton >Tolstoy >Ibsen >Flaubert >Melville >Joyce >Chekhov These are the men who have brought something new to literature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:05:43 2019 No.12621699 >>12621681 They're not even the best writers of the Antique, you absolute fedoratastic pseud.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:07:58 2019 No.12621707 >>12621692 oh wow good post

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:09:16 2019 No.12621711 >>12621694 >Joyce >Ibsen >Chekhov >Melville lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:10:25 2019 No.12621719 >>12621699 >he's a Ciceropleb because he's been told to be I bet you don't even speak latin

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:13:39 2019 No.12621735 >>12621711 >crossboarding tourist encounters names he hasn't heard before

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:14:06 2019 No.12621738 stultus es

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:17:32 2019 No.12621760 >>12621711 newfag

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:18:25 2019 No.12621764 >>12621699 >underrates Livy >calls others a pseud Oh I am laffin

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:33:22 2019 No.12621838 >>12621719 >>12621764 >Livy >Plato >greatest of antiquity >over the great tragedians, Aristophanes, Aesop, Horace, Martial Kill you're'selves clueless namedropping rebbitardian scum.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:52:45 2019 No.12621944 >>12621605 found the retarded anglo

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:54:05 2019 No.12621954 >>12621605 The eternal anglo strikes again

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:56:11 2019 No.12621967 >>12621735 >>12621760 what did Meville brought to literature?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:59:16 2019 No.12621984 >>12621967 A ton of sea words.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 18:59:29 2019 No.12621986 >>12621967 Whales ad homoeroticism with polynesian natives. Don't you dare say we didn't need it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 19:04:07 2019 No.12622016 >>12621583 >Lovecraft >Poe Holy moly. >>12621631 Great to see someone with common sense among the retch.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 19:13:31 2019 No.12622073 >>12621185 Where's Goethe?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 19:18:32 2019 No.12622105 File: 259 KB, 462x471, WF.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12621185 William Forrester

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 20:40:12 2019 No.12622574 >>12621185 Virgil has to be there. Also me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 20:44:47 2019 No.12622590 Chekhov is so underrated it's disgusting. His stories have more depth in 10 pages than most of the other autist writers have in 800.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 20:58:34 2019 No.12622655 >>12621583 >Lovecraft >Poe >>12622590 Then rec me some Chekhov >>12621283 Seriously how do I filter tripfaggots on 4chan X I'm an idiot and can't figure it out

Anonymous Mon Feb 18 21:15:15 2019 No.12622753

>>12622655
A Joke (this will hit you in the feels if you've ever been in love)
The Student (Chekhov's personal favorite story of his)
The Malefactor (basically a Monty Python sketch)
Who Was to Blame? (told from the POV of a cat, very unique)
Vanka (a bit melodramatic, but the ending hits you in the feels)

These all are short stories that can be read in about 10 minutes and will give you an idea of his style. Then if you enjoy it, move on to more of his longer stories.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 21:17:20 2019 No.12622765 Rabelais

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 21:55:23 2019 No.12622944 Joyce was a hack, one of the biggest charlatans of literature Dante is shit, fuck off Pessoa is meme shit for incels Proust is also overrated

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:45:01 2019 No.12623168 >>12621185 I don't like Homer. There were parts in the Iliad I thought were really great. Didn't care for the Odyssey at all. I contributed nothing to this thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 22:54:40 2019 No.12623223 >>12622944 Yes Anon, thanks for showing us the truth that Dante, Pessoa, Proust, and Joyce are in fact all garbage.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:18:03 2019 No.12623337 >>12623223 thank you for agreeing with me

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:21:13 2019 No.12623353 >>12621225 >dickens >dfw >>12621583 >lovecraft >poe the absolute state of /lit/

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:21:34 2019 No.12623356 >>12623353 Dickens is god tier

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:27:25 2019 No.12623393 >>12623356 Disgusting humanist trite

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:28:19 2019 No.12623398 >>12623393 begone, your presence is lower than a two penny harlot

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:29:02 2019 No.12623401 >>12623356 He really isn't.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:29:28 2019 No.12623402 >>12623401 philistine

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:30:23 2019 No.12623409 >>12621185 good top 4 i miss reading fiction

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:31:27 2019 No.12623413 >>12623402 what is your favorite passage from your favorite work by Dickens. Go ahead, wow me.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:31:34 2019 No.12623414 >>12621583 lovecraft are you shitting me

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:32:11 2019 No.12623419 >>12623413 I adore every word

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 18 23:34:24 2019 No.12623433 >>12623419 So you're a pseud. I could tell you my favorite passage by my favorite author, I could recite it from memory. You probably don't even like Dickens. He's not the worst mind you, he's just not great.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 05:46:53 2019 No.12624614 >>12621185 Lola is a great writer at BuzzFeed

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 05:55:54 2019 No.12624631 hemingway is not a contender

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 05:57:50 2019 No.12624638 >>12621283 Consider suicide

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:00:10 2019 No.12624645 >>12623413 >>12623433 Is this bait or someone who has mastered pseudery?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:01:31 2019 No.12624652 >>12621195 Joyce is a shitty meme. Sorry kid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:02:32 2019 No.12624656 >>12621185 Dante Cervantes Shakespeare Goethe Leopardi Dostoevskij This is the only acceptable list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:03:01 2019 No.12624660 >>12621583 >Lovecraft >Poe Really?

Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:03:39 2019 No.12624661

You are all fucking pseuds. Can you please stop shilling these retarded medieval brainlets and actually read some Joyce and Wallace? They are so much better than useless pieces of mainstream dramaturgy that literally brought nothing new to literature like Shakespeare.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:05:20 2019 No.12624669 >>12624660 Nah, he was joking

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:08:26 2019 No.12624683 >>12624661 Fuck off retard. The Medieval Men brought to humanity infinitely more than joys or wallas could ever do.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:55:43 2019 No.12624790 >>12621605 B E A D Y

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 06:58:58 2019 No.12624801 >Twain holy burgers >Mann instead of Musil holy middlebrow

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 07:04:14 2019 No.12624811 >>12624661 I hope this is real. I hope you are this dumb. This post is something a cartoon character would say. I mean Americans are stupid as fuck everyone knows that but holy shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 07:07:09 2019 No.12624816 >>12621692 >Austrians Best at starting world wars and blaming germany for it

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 08:12:34 2019 No.12624947 >>12624801 >Musil instead of Gadda

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 08:28:34 2019 No.12624995 File: 30 KB, 480x720, 1550241763338.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12621185 >Who could be a candidate?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 08:58:52 2019 No.12625100 >>12621283 tfw shot by the western >cannon

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 11:39:48 2019 No.12625703 >>12621666 >>12621944 >>12621954 >>12624790 ¡Hola Paco!

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 14:11:03 2019 No.12626337 >>12624656 One does not belong to that list.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 14:13:53 2019 No.12626354 File: 217 KB, 500x334, suarez_cannon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12621283 am i doing it right

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 14:45:14 2019 No.12626464 >>12624645 >can't say his favorite passage by his favorite author >not a pseud Begone

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 15:16:45 2019 No.12626578 >>12626337 Yes, he does.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 16:53:05 2019 No.12627056 >>12621185 Shakespeare Dante Tolstoy Dostoyevsky Mann -- dont @ me

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 18:53:30 2019 No.12627678 >>12627056 thats 5

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 19 19:03:53 2019 No.12627724 Socrates

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