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Worst prose stylists of all time?

>> No.18783701

me

>> No.18783805

Sort of feel for that Galsworthy, Dreisler generation immediately preceding the modernists. You do your life's work with the best tools available to you, then a blind Irishman and a drunk redneck and some French fag walk into the bar and fuck your shit up

>> No.18783897

Unironically Hemingway

>> No.18783932

>>18783897
I see that and raise you a Faulkner

>> No.18785323

>>18783665
Are you kidding? This is based!

"The average earthling, as I have reason to know, has frequently the greatest hesitation in revealing the net of flesh and emotion and human relationship into which he was born and which conditioned his early efforts at living and too often his subsequent place in life and society. I am free to say here and now that I am in no way troubled by any such thoughts or feelings."

Dude writes like he's from another planet trying to pass as human.

>> No.18785749

>>18785323
Reads like a bad translation

>> No.18785935

>>18783665
Nah man we unironically got too dumb to easily parse prose from around 1890-1914 now. It's not hard if you put even the slightest bit of concentration on reading it, but compared to the brain-numbing shit any 21st century person reads on a daily basis it's like asking someone sub 90-IQ who has only read twitter screencaps in his life to start reading Alexander Pope's rhymed essays

>> No.18786040

>>18785749
Yeah. It’s mind-boggling to think that English was Theodore Dreiser’s native language. There’s something almost poetic about how clumsily all the words are smashed together. I read An American Tragedy. Imagine 800 small-print pages of this stuff. After a while it started getting funny.

>> No.18786074

>>18783665
Lovecraft

>> No.18786383
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>> No.18786388

>>18785749
>>18786040

Reminds me of a funny comment by someone-or-other about Dreisler:

"He had no mother tongue at all."

>> No.18786395

>>18786383
Fuck right on off.

>> No.18786442

>>18783897
People who dislike Hemingway's style are usually new to literature. You probably think Céline is the pinnacle of style. What a clueless pig.

>> No.18786444

>>18783665

Alice Walker? Who tries bold things but can't.

> She did not know of my sorrow, dying. Poor child. How could she know?

> That night, eating a pomegranate seed by seed beside the fire, she did not miss me. She felt rather as if something heavy and dark, something she could never explain, had rolled away, off her soul. Shameless, curious, forsaken somehow, I watched her and the Greek husband, late into the night, make love.

> The recent stirrings that intimated my presence began with her desire to know about angels. Where they come from in the imagination, why people in all cultures find it difficult if not impossible to live without them.