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Who is the most experimental prose stylist of all time?

>> No.18974568
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18974568

>>18974545
Voynich Manuscript

>> No.18974608

>>18974545
Alberto Laiseca, hands down.

>> No.18974615

Joyce

>> No.18974617

>>18974545
Is it not Joober joystick

>> No.18975435

none of these answers come close
and warm congratulations to the stillborn who posted Joyce which is the entry level answer to this question

>> No.18975442

>>18974545
man this fucker had maddeningly great hair
no wonder his mind was clear to think about writing

>> No.18975463

>>18974608
cant find any of his work in english
therefore, answer disregarded

>> No.18975473

>>18975442
True. His physiognomy is pretty much flawless.

>> No.18975497

>>18974545
William Faulkner. He was already doing the syntax breaking prose/stream of consciousness in 1930s before Beckett started out.
Alexander theroux is also pretty out there. So is McElroy's women and men and Plus.

>> No.18975500

>>18975435
Dumb faggot who posts nothing himself

>> No.18975551

>>18975500
racist

>> No.18975624

>>18974545
Sollers

>> No.18975630

Bernhard

>> No.18975648

Guyotat

>> No.18976129

Georges Perec is a worthy mention.

>> No.18976156

>>18974545
Enheduanna.

>> No.18976190

>>18975630
not sure if he's the *most experimental* but certainly the best.

>> No.18976203

I know you’re a dork looking for some obscure ascetic writer…. But it’s Joyce

>> No.18976259

maybe O'Brien?
Beckett read him

>> No.18976339

>>18976259
O'brians prose isn't really experimental, it's more the structure of the novels that was influential.

>> No.18976364

>>18974545
It is Joyce, at least considering the writers I've read, in six different languages.
Maybe I should mention concrete poetry (Haroldo de Campos), dadaism (Hugo Ball and others), and people like Cummings. But those were poets. In prose, I think it's Joyce, in the Finnegans Wake.

>>18975435
Fuck off.

>> No.18976373

>>18976339
Right

If you look for the prose, you might consider to check the nouveau roman movement in France

>> No.18976375

>>18976373
+ Actually Beckett is also a nouveau roman writer

>> No.18976403

>>18976364
you people are so delusional and not one of you has read FW to the end

>> No.18976418

>>18976403
The dumb faggot is back

>> No.18976424

>>18976418
No, you were here all along.

>> No.18976445

>>18976403
>“you people are so delusional”
>still has yet to name a more avant-grade prose style than finnegans wake

>> No.18976457

>>18976445
Nova Express.
*mic drop*

>> No.18976517

>>18975463
monolinguals amirite? lol

>> No.18976523

>>18974545
Jon Fosse

>> No.18976636

>>18974545
Guyotat. Read Eden, Eden ,Eden and Tomb for 500.000 Soldiers. Even if you can't read it in french his greatness is unrivaled even in translation.

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>>18976636
This is clearly not as experimental as FW

>> No.18976693

test

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>>18976672
this is

>> No.18976812

F Gardner

>> No.18976814

>>18976812
This answer is going to piss off a lot of people. But it’s the most accurate answer to OP’s question.

>> No.18976816

>>18976805
>those apostrophes
Good heavens anon

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>>18974545
>experimental

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>>18976821
>Finnegers Wake

>> No.18976832

>>18976805
what book is this?
I can't read french.

>> No.18976840

>>18975497
Faulkner did nothing new, but he was amazing at what he did.

>> No.18976902

>>18976832
says right there: "Le Livre" (by Guyotat)

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18976921

Believe it or not, some okay-to-good crypto-beat writer from Austria in 60s didn’t match the prose the greatest literary mind since Shakespeare worked on for nineteen years

>> No.18976928

>>18976921
>try hard for long time = good
>shakespeare existed

outta here kiddo

>> No.18976957

>>18976921
>the greatest literary mind since Shakespeare
who?

>> No.18976963

>>18974545
who is this and if i read him, will i get hair like that/?