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Anonymous Thu Mar 19 21:12:35 2015 No.6291545 [Reply] [Original]

name an author whose not Homer who's first book was a masterpiece
that's right, you cant

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 21:13:24 2015 No.6291548 Tolkien DFW

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 21:14:38 2015 No.6291551 Virgil

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 21:15:16 2015 No.6291558 >>6291545 >whose not Homer who's first

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 21:16:56 2015 No.6291566 >>6291558 /thread

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 22:26:54 2015 No.6291840 me :3

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 22:34:14 2015 No.6291854 >>6291545 William gaddis lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 23:02:29 2015 No.6291918 >>6291854 >implying JR isn't his best work

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 23:04:17 2015 No.6291919 >>6291918 The OP didn't say the first book was the best work. Pynchon, btw.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 23:57:26 2015 No.6292046 Oscar Wilde.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 00:35:15 2015 No.6292146 >>6291919 v is a good book but not a masterpiece, GR on the other hand is same can be said about gaddis just because it's famous doesn't mean it's good

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 00:36:30 2015 No.6292151 Lewis Caroll

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 00:46:31 2015 No.6292179 >>6292146 You haven't read any of those books and are just mad your topic is pointless.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 00:48:16 2015 No.6292181 John Fowles?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 00:48:30 2015 No.6292183 >>6292179 name a topic that isn't pointless that's right, you cant

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:00:37 2015 No.6292215 >>6292183 >WAAAAAAHHHHHHHH Just don't post, retard.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:04:18 2015 No.6292230 >>6291840 >pinecone?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:05:52 2015 No.6292233 >>6292146 nah V is a really well written book, especially for a first novel. It's not GR, but it is a masterpiece. Certainly his second best.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:06:43 2015 No.6292236 >>6292233 >I haven't read even half of Pynchon's novels

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:11:33 2015 No.6292251 Juan Rulfo F Scott Fitzgerald I was going to say Hemmmers because of The Sun Also Rises but wasn't his first book some satirical piece?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:19:56 2015 No.6292269 J. D. Salinger

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:20:15 2015 No.6292271 >>6291545 William Gaddis Thomas Pynchon Flann O'Brien James Joyce Ben Marcus Donald Barthelme Philip Roth Thomas Pynchon John Ashbery Wallace Stevens

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:33:51 2015 No.6292299 >>6291545 Sergio de la Pava W.G. Sebald

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:43:35 2015 No.6292315 File: 11 KB, 480x360, 1356011092414.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6291545 Céline. Why is /li/t so pleb?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:44:57 2015 No.6292320 >>6292315 pleb >>6292271 not pleb

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:46:59 2015 No.6292325 H a R p E r L e E

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Fri Mar 20 01:48:36 2015 No.6292334 Homer probably dictated the Iliad on a commission, I'm sure he "published" plenty of stories before it, they were just strictly oral.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:49:36 2015 No.6292337 >>6292334 >he >not they lmao

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:50:19 2015 No.6292340 >>6291545 Dante Alighieri

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Fri Mar 20 01:51:08 2015 No.6292346 >>6292337 Nice 19th Century scholarship, bub.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 01:53:55 2015 No.6292355 salinger

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Fri Mar 20 01:54:53 2015 No.6292356 >>6292337 No, Homer was likely one person. I think The Iliad was probably adapted by Homer from an old traditional, like Hesiod's Theogony, but The Odyssey, I tend to believe, is all his.

>>	ΟΥΤΙΣ Fri Mar 20 01:56:46 2015 No.6292364 >>6292356 Both were adapted from old traditions, that doesn't mean Homer didn't do an awful lot to them. Shakespeare adapted many of his stories from old traditions too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 02:40:44 2015 No.6292452 >>6292251 >Rulfo >only wrote one novel(la) >had years of experience after writing El llano en llamas Actually, he apparently wrote a novel in his twenties that was utter romantic, excessive craps which he destroyed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 02:43:22 2015 No.6292458 >>6292233 Maybe not second because M&D and GR are definitely above it in quality. I mean, I love V. It's one of my favourite books, but I have to concede that the other big ones display a lot more maturity and ingenuity.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 02:50:12 2015 No.6292477 >>6292271 you forgot Thomas Pynchon

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 02:50:50 2015 No.6292480 AJ Ayer

>>	SYK FUK RUKUS Fri Mar 20 02:54:24 2015 No.6292488 Bulgakov

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 02:54:56 2015 No.6292492 >>6292480 And in comes the analytic shithead to ruin the thread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 02:59:41 2015 No.6292502 Yevgeny Zamyatin