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Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:12:12 2014 No.5017876 [DELETED]

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Best prose writers?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:13:24 2014 No.5017881 >>5017876 Faulkner, Pynchon, sometimes Wallace, Nabokov, Vonnegut if you're into that kind of thing, Raymond Carver

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:13:49 2014 No.5017883 Malcom Lowry James Joyce Faulkner Steinbeck DH Lawrence Are my personal favorites, from what I've read. Yourself OP?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:15:45 2014 No.5017888 >>5017883 woops, forgot Joyce in my list >>5017881

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:16:01 2014 No.5017890 Poe it's music it is math

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:17:41 2014 No.5017895 >>5017888 Good man.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:19:24 2014 No.5017905 Fitzgerald, Updike, Cheever, DF Wallace, Didion, Hunter Thompson, Nabokov, Carver

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:21:32 2014 No.5017916 Are there any good fiction writers who write bad prose?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:22:07 2014 No.5017918 Waugh

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:23:11 2014 No.5017924 >>5017916 Kilgore Trout

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>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:24:39 2014 No.5017927 >>5017876 First time on /lit/. Tolstoy, Joyce, Proust, Kafka, Nabokov, Updike, Pynchon, Barth, McElroy, Flaubert

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:24:56 2014 No.5017929 >>5017927 you'll fit right in

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:26:19 2014 No.5017936 John Green

Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:39:18 2014 No.5017978

>>5017881
This guy gets it, I agree with all the names you've got there.

R. L. Stevenson
Lewis Carroll
Mark Twain
Malcolm Lowry
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hemingway
Virginia Woolf
George Orwell
Aldous Huxley
Northrop Frye
Alberto Manguel
Montesquieu
Diderot
Stendhal
Sade
Antonin Artaud
Samuel Beckett
Simone de Beauvoir
Albert Camus
Sartre
André Gide
Marguerite Duras
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Ana María Matute
Miguel de Unamuno
Octavio Paz
Borges
Roberto Bolaño
César Aira
Enrique Vila-Matas
Goethe
Nietzsche
Georg Büchner
Paul Heyse
Georg Lukács
Hermann Hesse
Kafka
Ingeborg Bachmann
Freud
Elias Canetti
Ulrich Plenzdorf
Bernhard Schlink
Cesare Pavese
Dino Buzzati
Umberto Eco
Eça de Quieroz
Dostoyevsky
Ivan Turgenev
Roman Jakobson
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
Lady Murasaki
Yoko Tawada
Kezuo Ishiguro

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 20:41:43 2014 No.5017985 >>5017883 >Yourself OP? Most of my favorite writers wrote in Portuguese, my native language, In English, I like Malcom Lowry too, and Faulkner.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 22:46:25 2014 No.5018414 Oscar Wilde.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 22:47:45 2014 No.5018420 >>5017936 Kek

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 22:48:37 2014 No.5018424 PROSE WORKS ARE >LITERALLY< PLEBEIAN

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 22:52:21 2014 No.5018436 Erasmus, Bossuet.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 22:56:14 2014 No.5018447 Pascal.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 22:59:50 2014 No.5018461 Nathanael West is amazing. The final chapter of Day of the Locust is so well-written it left me breathless.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 23:02:23 2014 No.5018474 >>5017924 This isnt even a joke it's just a vague reference

>>	Anonymous Sun Jun 15 23:04:42 2014 No.5018480 >>5017924 I love you

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 02:09:37 2014 No.5018947 File: 14 KB, 220x300, waugh.3[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5017918 >Waugh >mfw he knows >Captcha bridesdead asdse

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 03:11:14 2014 No.5019075 >>5017876 No Delillo? It's like none of you have read Pafko At The Wall

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 03:12:01 2014 No.5019079 >>5018447 this.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 06:02:42 2014 No.5019410 >>5018447 I prefer Montaigne but Pascal is pretty God Tier.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 06:19:49 2014 No.5019448 >>5019075 i second delillo i felt that most of underworld was really just him jerking himself off to how good he is at prose

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 06:19:49 2014 No.5019449 File: 13 KB, 396x450, Victor_Hugo_001[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] God dammit lit, no Victor Hugo? Stay plebs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 06:22:35 2014 No.5019456 >>5019449 Rabelais, Montaigne, Pascal, Flaubert, Maupassant > Hugo in prose

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:20:28 2014 No.5020069 >>5019410 Montaigne is shit though

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:28:17 2014 No.5020089 >>5020069 Translations are rarely good you know.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:31:13 2014 No.5020100 File: 5 KB, 300x168, RL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This man, he disapproves

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:41:02 2014 No.5020138 File: 572 KB, 2400x3028, Thomas_de_Quincey_by_Sir_John_Watson-Gordon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] De Quincey is the best prose writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:42:53 2014 No.5020146 >>5017876 Nabokov. Read it aloud. Hear the rhythm. Feel the music. He truly mastered English.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:46:23 2014 No.5020159 >>5020089 Keep telling yourself that.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:49:06 2014 No.5020166 >>5020159 >Talking about Montaigne without reading it in the original language such kek

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 11:58:02 2014 No.5020192 >>5020166 >talking about translations you haven't even read >thinks I haven't read it in French lol are you from /v/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jun 16 20:31:40 2014 No.5021678 >>5017881 agreed >>5017916 PKD is the first that comes to mind for me

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