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ITT: We discuss why Hemingway was the best novelist of the 20th century

>> No.4216067

James Joyce was.

>> No.4216070

>crickets mock your premise

>> No.4216073

>>4216067
>Finnegans Wake
>not a big joke
>Implying Ulysses wasn't his only good work

>> No.4216080

>>4216073
And all Hem's protagonists were the same person, more or less.

>> No.4216102

>start reading one of his books (can't remember which one, one about spanish civil war)
>man sees woman
>falls in love, oh wow, it's so special to look in to her eyes

fuck this. he wants to fuck. there is no love.

>> No.4216113

>>4216102
>not believing in love at first sight
>are you even a romantic?

>> No.4216118

>>4216113

partially related, are there any non-pleb books that have opinions similar to my post?

Like you could have an r9ker read it and relate? I already know about houllebecq

>> No.4216119

>>4216113
there's a difference between a coup de foudre and hemmingway getting a hard-on for some random spanish bitch

>> No.4216124

>>4216118
el tunel by sabato
notes from the underground by dostoevsky
maybe hero of our time by lermontov