Name a better American author.

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Anonymous Sun Jul 14 18:51:40 2019 No.13466559 [Reply] [Original]

Name a better American author.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 18:56:36 2019 No.13466587 >>13466559 Melville

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 18:59:11 2019 No.13466600 >>13466587 I really need to read Melville. It's just that the idea of reading about a guy chasing a whale for years doesn't sound that interesting. I would probably be great if I gave it a chance.

Anonymous Sun Jul 14 19:11:05 2019 No.13466675

>>13466559
This is the worst post I’ve ever seen.
Whitman, Fitzgerald, London, mommy Plath, McCarthy, Nabokov (if you want to take him at his word that he’s more American than Russian), Dickinson, Frost, just off the top of my head, are all indisputably his superiors. (I haven’t read Melville yet but I going by reputation he seems to be a fair bet as well).

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 19:13:40 2019 No.13466690 >>13466600 It's pretty insipid at times but the few heavenly snatches of prose redeem it. If I was you I'd read the abridged version.

Anonymous Sun Jul 14 19:20:04 2019 No.13466719

>>13466559
In no particular order:

Melville, Hawthorne, Cather, Gaddis, Pynchon, Barth, Coover, Cheever, Percy, McCarthy, Bellow, Updike, London, Bowles, Salinger, Portis, Crowley, Le Guin, Dos Passos, many others.

And that's just scratching the surface.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 19:48:38 2019 No.13466865 >>13466675 literally all of those except Fitzgerald, McCarthy and Frost are shit, even then Faulkner is superior >>13466690 >abridged no

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 19:49:23 2019 No.13466874 >>13466719 >London LOL! cities don't write

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 19:50:25 2019 No.13466880 >>13466874 ...or do they

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 20:46:22 2019 No.13467201 >>13466587 Based

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 22:04:06 2019 No.13467517 >>13466559 >>13466587 Melville was the Dante of America and Faulkner the Shakespeare

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 22:07:45 2019 No.13467532 >>13466690 Wrong

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 22:42:37 2019 No.13467673 >>13466600 Start with something shorter like Bartelby, Billy Budd, Typee, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 23:11:01 2019 No.13467758 >>13466559 Burroughs is better

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 23:17:14 2019 No.13467777 >>13466600 No, you really just need to start reading and stop swooping dudes on here left and right faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 14 23:19:44 2019 No.13467782 What's your favorite passage of Faulkner?

Anonymous Sun Jul 14 23:21:30 2019 No.13467791
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>>13467782
>That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don't ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.
>He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Anonymous Sun Jul 14 23:31:36 2019 No.13467823

>>13467782
probably the most common one you'll see posted but it's pre good so

>...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 00:15:13 2019 No.13467935 >>13467791 This is such Girl, Interruped tier bullshit

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 00:31:05 2019 No.13467988 >>13467782 I've only read As I Lay Dying but I really like the moment when Jewel arrives home on his horse for the first time. It's just the passage itself but also everything that led up to it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 00:31:56 2019 No.13467992 File: 15 KB, 248x189, 1111.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13466719 >LeGuin >Dos Passos >better than William Faulkner

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 00:34:13 2019 No.13467999 >>13467988 *It's not just the passage itself

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 00:47:19 2019 No.13468045 >>13466719 >Le Guin Confirmed non reader

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 00:49:25 2019 No.13468052 File: 74 KB, 843x620, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13468045 >Le Guin >not part of the Western Canon My pleb sirens are blaring.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 02:41:23 2019 No.13468423 >>13466874 >>13466880 You silly billy

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 02:43:10 2019 No.13468427 File: 246 KB, 1480x690, image.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13466559

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 02:44:28 2019 No.13468432 >>13468427 he looks like an evil version of my grandpa wtf

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 02:45:30 2019 No.13468433 >>13468052 nobody claimed otherwise. she's still not better than faulkner. I doubt you've read him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 02:47:51 2019 No.13468444 >>13466719 >Cheever >Updike Snivelling gay Brooklynite detected

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 02:51:51 2019 No.13468457 >>13468444 I doubt you've read a word of either, and I'm from Chicago.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 02:53:05 2019 No.13468460 >>13468457 cheever wrote many good short stories. updike is a mediocre novelist. both absolutely inferior to based Faulkner.

Anonymous Mon Jul 15 02:57:07 2019 No.13468464

>>13468460
Updike's just one of the many great 20th century writers who have gone out of fashion (Bellow is another), but he's certainly not mediocre. Reading his collections of literary criticism deepened my appreciation for him. Easily one of the best American critics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 03:03:56 2019 No.13468478 File: 102 KB, 633x800, mw03436.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A CHALLENGER APPEARS!!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 03:20:31 2019 No.13468526 >>13466587 Melville couldn't ever have mastered the short story like Faulkner did. >>13466675 Obvious bait. >>13466559 Henry James is a close second.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 03:23:34 2019 No.13468534 >>13468526 Bartleby is better than any of Faulkner's short stories.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 03:23:54 2019 No.13468537 >>13468478 >golden bowl >ambassadors >wings of the dove >turn of the screw >portrait of a lady >beast in the jungle Yeah, I'm thinking Henry James beats out Faulkner. If we're including poetry, then Wallace Stevens is up there.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 03:27:35 2019 No.13468544 >>13468534 You are so fucking wrong, it's pathetic. Read Uncle Willy, Dry September, The Tall Men, and the Centaur in Brass. And also eat shit.

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 13:30:17 2019 No.13470476 Hemingway.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 13:54:36 2019 No.13470586 >>13470476 this but unironically

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 14:17:38 2019 No.13470687 >>13468544 I take it you're from the South and this is more about regional pride for you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 14:19:03 2019 No.13470696 >>13468978 Not American.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 14:37:16 2019 No.13470781 File: 57 KB, 320x240, 3236-3564.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ITT: people not thinking based Faulkner is the American GOAT

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 15:08:12 2019 No.13470999 >>13466559 dashielle hammett unironical answer

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 15:10:41 2019 No.13471009 Joyce, Proust, Milton, The Founding Fathers, Thoreau, Emerson, Poe, etc. Nice try anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 15:11:21 2019 No.13471016 don't like people who write long books don't really want to read anything longer than 300 pages

Anonymous Mon Jul 15 15:13:13 2019 No.13471029

Coates, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Cornel West, Alice Walker, Junot Diaz, Langston Hughes, WEB Dubois, Barack Obama, MLK, Malcolm X, Richard Wright (Uncle Tom though), Booker T Washington (Uncle Tom), and Ralph Ellison. You can't ignore the writings of the true builders of America. If you do that you are ignorant and naive. Who cares what some rich white men have to say in 2019? Jeez this board makes me sick

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 19:24:11 2019 No.13472474 File: 568 KB, 1366x768, Screen Shot 2018-08-31 at 2.59.18 PM.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] BURROUGHS

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 19:25:53 2019 No.13472482 >>13471009 >Joyce, Proust, Milton >Americans Nice try baitfag. >>13471029 2/10 bait

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 19:27:19 2019 No.13472486 >>13471009 >Joyce >Proust >Milton uhh

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 19:29:01 2019 No.13472497 File: 593 KB, 1200x1802, Mark_Twain_from_American_Portraits.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13466559 Mark Twain desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 19:34:57 2019 No.13472524 >>13472474 >>13467758 He wasn't even the best of the Beats

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 19:39:22 2019 No.13472550 File: 19 KB, 284x286, Fedora.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13467823

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:23:39 2019 No.13472745 >>13472524 lol who was then?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:24:21 2019 No.13472750 >>13472524 he wasnt even a beat

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:29:52 2019 No.13472778 >>13466559 Prose >Melville >Hathorne >Hemingway >James >Kerouac >Vonnegut >Fitzgerald >Pynchon >DFW >Dreiser >Twain >Wolfe >Steinbeck

Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:32:28 2019 No.13472790

>>13472778
>Melville
Yes. The greatest American writer bar none.
>Hathorne
No.
>Hemingway
Absolutely not.
>James
No.
>Kerouac
Inferior in every way. A total meme.
>Vonnegut
Pfff
>Fitzgerald
Good, but still not quite superior.
>Pynchon
See above.
>DFW
No.
>Dreiser
No.
>Twain
Also great.
>Wolfe
No.
>Steinbeck

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:33:30 2019 No.13472795 >>13472790 >Steinbeck Same as Fitzgerald and Pynchon.

Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:34:29 2019 No.13472802

>>13472745
Kerouac
>>13472750
how was he not? he was best buds with Kerouac and Ginsburg and co-wrote shit with both of them
>>13472778
I can't imagine how anyone could think Vonnegut was a better writer than Faulkner on any level. Which Wolfe are you talking about. though?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:35:24 2019 No.13472810 >>13472802 >Wolfe Gene Wolfe I suppose. The walrus-looking meme.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:36:05 2019 No.13472815 >>13472802 >>13472810 Thomas Wolfe

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:38:22 2019 No.13472824 File: 63 KB, 800x526, david-foster-wallace-2d7939a867950051042d8032609ff97d55b73b19-s800-c85 (1).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13466559 Hey63.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:39:56 2019 No.13472831 >>13472802 Kerouac is shit. Burroughs was the only beat worth anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:47:39 2019 No.13472866 File: 108 KB, 1280x720, woah.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >people hating on Kerouac One of the greatest writers coming out of the US and people hate on him because of hippies and orgies.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 20:49:58 2019 No.13472876 >>13472866 >[Kerouac's] of the greatest writers coming out of the US This is why the world mocks you. >>13472828

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 21:16:14 2019 No.13473023 >>13470687 Ew, fuck no. I hate the the South and I hate Southerners. >m-muh rolltide

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 21:43:26 2019 No.13473175 >>13472482 2/10 bait. Shows your ignorance whitey

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 21:51:10 2019 No.13473236 >>13466865 lmfao too bad you’re an irredeemable philistine, must suck better luck next incarnation

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 21:53:46 2019 No.13473249 >>13473175 Not even white, sweatie. Try again. All of them are inferior to Faulkner.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 21:59:25 2019 No.13473272 >>13473236 Whitman and Plath are two of the most philistine "poets" ever published

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 22:02:06 2019 No.13473286 File: 1.97 MB, 380x285, E8FFF557-9A95-45DD-91FF-217C16D07AC5.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13473272 lmfao do you hear an avalanche when you turn your head

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 15 22:20:40 2019 No.13473352 excited for my copies of sound and the fury, light in august and as I lay dying to arrive, been meaning to read him for a while

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 01:44:58 2019 No.13474021 >>13466587 Fpbp

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 05:13:21 2019 No.13474498 >>13467673 I really never understood the appeal of Bartleby. People tout it as a great short story, but I don't see it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 05:17:10 2019 No.13474507 >>13472795 I'm sorry for you - you know, for being such a pleb and having such shit taste. Steinbeck and Pynchon tower over Faulkner like he was an ant.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 05:17:19 2019 No.13474508 >>13470476 this, without a hint of irony.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 12:36:12 2019 No.13475923 >>13472815 Shame he's more often consigned to the 'regional author' designation like Stegner and Percy when he was as good as every 20th century American, and better than most.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 12:36:41 2019 No.13475927 >>13474507 Not really.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 12:38:51 2019 No.13475941 >>13474507 >Steinbeck Now here's one that should be reduced to regional writer.

Anonymous Tue Jul 16 16:10:50 2019 No.13477054

>>13475941
Steinbeck is a writer's writer. You find no fat in his prose, no extra words more than those needed to convey what he wants.

His prose may seem without artificies, but the elegance and strenght of his stories and characters are undeniable. The man was a great writer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 22:19:20 2019 No.13478830 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 22:53:42 2019 No.13478968 File: 612 KB, 700x632, B1A34E1D-0761-4F6E-A8E3-EC9A6B2F2F27.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13466719 >Le Guin I like you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 16 23:22:33 2019 No.13479074 "William Faulkner is the first novelist of our time." - Jorge Luis Borges

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 02:41:51 2019 No.13479732 >>13466559 Steinbeck

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 02:42:52 2019 No.13479735 >>13466559 Judith Butler

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 04:10:07 2019 No.13479921 >>13467782 Chapter 5 of Absalom Absalom!

Anonymous Wed Jul 17 06:43:54 2019 No.13480291

>>13466675
I cannot fucking stand posts like this. Just naming as many famous authors as you can. Fitzgerald cannot even compete with Faulkner, Dickinson and Frost are trash and everyone knows it but the school system convinces people they're good because they're easy to teach and talk about. McCarthy, London, and Nabakov are all good, they all have exceptional novels, but Faulkner trumps them all. None of them rival the consistently impressive prose of Faulkner in every single one of his novels. I still remember reading the first page of A Fable and being absolutely blown away by the writing. It is patrician as fuck. People talk about the first page of Lolita being art but it is laced with cringe. A lot of people will be like "that's the point" but Faulkner had higher ideals. Faulkner's novels are what all novels should strive to be.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 12:02:15 2019 No.13481536 >>13468427 please no, corn father

Anonymous Wed Jul 17 12:07:23 2019 No.13481565

>>13480291
>I cannot fucking stand posts like this. Just naming as many famous authors as you can.
Lmao?? Not at all. You really think I can’t name more? If I were a pseud I could even just google “American authors” and make a tower of a list. I named less than ten people. You’re just a triggered fan boy.
>McCarthy, London, and Nabakov are all good, they all have exceptional novels, but Faulkner trumps them all
Hilarious

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 12:09:39 2019 No.13481577 >>13480291 >conjecture, projection and seething

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 12:16:35 2019 No.13481609 >>13480291 >McCarthy, London, and Nabakov are all good, they all have exceptional novels, but Faulkner trumps them all. This. Someone who has truly delved into Faulkner can see he's the superior writer. He's the true heir of Shakespeare in our times.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 13:16:44 2019 No.13481934 >>13466559 I really can't.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 13:21:31 2019 No.13481959 >>13472815 I like him but he basically wrote the same thing over and over. The diversity of structure, style, and mood in Faulker's writing is one of his best points.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 13:23:13 2019 No.13481971 >>13466559 this thread's been on since fucking sunday, just let it die already. faulkner is the burger goat, not even memeing.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 13:39:39 2019 No.13482043 >>13480291 >B-but I like these authors more!! >waaahhhhh

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 13:40:47 2019 No.13482049 >>13481609 He was a joyce wannabe at worst, a decent american author at best

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 14:18:08 2019 No.13482259 How are Mosquitoes and Soldiers Pay? I like to read authors chronologically

Anonymous Wed Jul 17 14:30:38 2019 No.13482344

>>13481565
You named the most cliche American authors that make up high school level course material. Your post was hardly even a thought, you reached for whats on the posters at Barnes and Noble. It doesnt even sound like you enjoy any of the authors you cited, it just sounds like you hate Faulkner so much for no apparent reason.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 14:32:09 2019 No.13482351 >>13482259 start with Flags in the Dust

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 14:34:33 2019 No.13482367 Whitman, but I am with Miller in that Whitman is almost impossible to sincerely interpret since industrialization.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 18:09:23 2019 No.13483634 >>13482344 Wahh you dont like my underground authors like FAULKNER. Ffs

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 18:11:36 2019 No.13483646 >>13483634 not him but Faulkner's kinda underrated these days

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 21:18:37 2019 No.13484731 >>13483646 The fuck? Hes taught all over schools. Hes posted on this board weekly. Hes heralded as one of the best american voices. What the fuck and where the fuck are you getting that idea

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 21:22:49 2019 No.13484758 >>13466559 Is that Gomez Addams?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 23:37:46 2019 No.13485425 you can't. I've been reading Faulkner for a year and I anticipate I will be rereading and studying him for years to come.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 23:39:04 2019 No.13485433 File: 8 KB, 190x243, 11939-004-0AC12ABF.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13481971 this. Even his overlooked works like Pylon are worth reading

Anonymous Wed Jul 17 23:42:20 2019 No.13485451

I think the identification of Faulkner as a southern writer ultimately does more harm than good. Sure, he IS a great southern writer, probably the best, but I think pigeon holing him into a regional category suggests to some people that he has less to say about the American experience as a whole.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 17 23:54:13 2019 No.13485489 >>13485451 but the south is the essence of Faulkner. His perspective is uniquely southern. If you want a more universal American author try Steinbeck

Anonymous Wed Jul 17 23:56:59 2019 No.13485498

>>13485489
>If you want a more universal American author try Steinbeck
This is bait, right? If Faulkner is regional, Steinbeck is municipal. None of this is wrong by the way, since sometimes the Universal is found within the regional (e.g. One Hundred Years of Solitude).

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 00:27:59 2019 No.13485634 >>13471009 >The Founding Father's Fucking Americans are a joke kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 01:17:19 2019 No.13485814 Faulkner chart when?? You faggots have a Neil Gayman chart but not a Faulkner chart, how the fuck is that possible?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 01:25:22 2019 No.13485828 File: 2.29 MB, 2732x2240, william faulkner chart.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13485814

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 01:42:16 2019 No.13485870 >>13485634 Have you not read The Federalist Papers or the Constitution

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 01:42:26 2019 No.13485871 >>13485828 >ignoring Sanctuaty and The Wild Palms ...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 01:59:47 2019 No.13485920 File: 2.53 MB, 1440x2475, 1540587061333-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13467782 Faulkner was so much better at prose than most people give him credit for

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 02:08:26 2019 No.13485949 >>13482049 Just go ahead and admit the only Faulkner you've actually read is his wikipedia page

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 02:41:12 2019 No.13486024 John Updike fucking sucks

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 02:41:26 2019 No.13486026 File: 315 KB, 1378x674, faulkner_cut.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13485814 from what I've read of him, this is how I would handle it. But i'm a lazy pleb.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 05:36:43 2019 No.13486454 >>13466559 Pynchon

Anonymous Thu Jul 18 08:13:43 2019 No.13486959

>>13485498
My guess is yankcucks might find Faulkner a bit alien since he's so southern. Steinbeck's prose is pretty simple making his work much more accessible. East of Eden had settings on both coasts, almost all of Faulkner's work is set in Y county or states nearby

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 08:19:42 2019 No.13486988 >>13485949 All his short stories, the sound and the fury, and as I lay dying. I'm no expert, but sheesh man, you're tripping balls

Anonymous Thu Jul 18 08:42:02 2019 No.13487064

Henry James, Herman Mellvile, William Gaddis, Alexander Theroux, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Mary McCarthy, and yes, even Robert Frost

Faulkner has the failed poet disease, the other McCarthy and later Hemingway have that as well. They think it's awfully poetic to string together assonant words in a certain rhythm, not realizing they more often that not come off as Dr. Seuss but in paragraphs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 09:03:15 2019 No.13487134 >>13467791 Pretty gay and pseudy desu

Anonymous Thu Jul 18 09:17:17 2019 No.13487177

>>13467673
Typee is always a safe recommendation because guaranteed nobody here’s ever read it, or ever will. It’s not a very good book, and neither is Omoo — both were the airport fiction of their day and both count as big strikes against the notion that Melville is America’s greatest author.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 09:23:51 2019 No.13487199 >>13470999 It’s spelled Dashiell Hammet, anon, But you’re correct, he’s definitely better than Faulkner. And so is Raymond Chandler.

Anonymous Thu Jul 18 11:25:51 2019 No.13487667

>>13487177
>Every evening the girls of the house gathered about me on the mats, and after chasing away Kory-Kory from my side—who nevertheless, retired only to a little distance and watched their proceedings with the most jealous attention—would anoint my whole body with a fragrant oil, squeezed from a yellow root, previously pounded between a couple of stones, and which in their language is denominated ‘aka’. And most refreshing and agreeable are the juices of the ‘aka’, when applied to one’s limbs by the soft palms of sweet nymphs, whose bright eyes are beaming upon you with kindness; and I used to hail with delight the daily recurrence of this luxurious operation, in which I forgot all my troubles, and buried for the time every feeling of sorrow.
Noble savage wank wank wank

Anonymous Thu Jul 18 11:33:26 2019 No.13487711
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>>13467782
>It's all now you see. Yesterday won't be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it's still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it's all in the balance, it hasn't happened yet, it hasn't even begun yet, it not only hasn't begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it's going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn't need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose than all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world's roaring rim.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 11:48:17 2019 No.13487774 >>13481971 paradoxically keeping this thread alive to say I agree

Anonymous Thu Jul 18 11:57:33 2019 No.13487824

>>13484731
he's been revered to the point of inanity. No one cares to read his stuff as it is, I bet he's the most sparknotes'd author in unis. I remember in my uni course on american lit, only about 3 people in a class of twenty actually read Absalom, Absalom! It's those sparknotes people that are so averse to calling him great.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 12:29:42 2019 No.13487990 >>13487064 >Alexander Theroux, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, Mary McCarthy, and yes, even Robert Frost How delusional do you have to be to believe these are superior to Faulkner? lmao

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 12:38:56 2019 No.13488031 >>13487990 Especially Alexander Theroux, LOL. His brother is a much better writer.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:21:24 2019 No.13488237 >>13487824 Faulkner's complete body of work is underrated. It's the meme quadrilogy that everyone thinks is overrated

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:32:22 2019 No.13488291 >>13487711 Exceptional

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:32:57 2019 No.13488292 >>13488031 lmao no

Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:36:52 2019 No.13488302

>>13487824
>No one cares to read his stuff as it is,

If three people in your specific class in college read him, and theres probably more than one section of that class, and there are thousands of colleges just in the US with american lit courses, how mane people just in college read his stuff thoroughly? Compared to what other authors numbers?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:37:04 2019 No.13488304 >>13488237 Does the quadrilogy include Light in August or Sanctuary?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:38:12 2019 No.13488308 >>13488237 Collected Stories, Wild Palms, The Unvanquished, and Go Down, Moses are underrated these days.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:41:28 2019 No.13488320 >>13488304 >The Sound and the Fury >As I Lay Dying >Absalom, Absalom! >Light in August

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:42:38 2019 No.13488329 >>13488308 haven't read collected stories, I like the other three though

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:43:49 2019 No.13488335 >>13488292 lmao yes. Paul Theroux is the better writer.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:45:05 2019 No.13488342 >>13488320 Yeah, I was sure about the first three but not about the last one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:46:10 2019 No.13488348 >>13488335 he really isn't. he's alright. to call him one the American goats, let alone, the goat, is delusional. you must be his relative.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 18 13:59:30 2019 No.13488407 >>13488348 Who called him a GOAT? Not me, and not anybody ITT, so stop strawmanning. I merely pointed out that he’s a superior writer to his brother.

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