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If you could only pick one out of Hemingway and Faulkner, who would it be? who's the better writer /lit/?

>> No.6297370

>>6297367

Ernest.

>> No.6297374

>>6297367
I would pick Faulkner, but luckily we don't have to pick.

>> No.6297386

Hemingway. I like Faulkner, but Hemingway's got more punch.

Though if I matched up my faves by both, I'd take The Unvanquished over A Farewell to Arms.

>> No.6297408

Faulkner's prose is more beautiful but Hemingway was better at portraying people. I like them both but gun to my head I'd choose Hemingway.

>> No.6297413

>American authors

They're both shit.

>> No.6297414

>>6297386

Have you read Ernest's short stories?

>> No.6297415

>Faulkner vs Hemingway
>Hemingway on the left, Faulkner on the right

I hate this

I particularly hate when they do this on movie posters

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>>6297408
>gun to my head I'd choose Hemingway.

heh heh

>> No.6297660

>>6297367

read all of hemingway as a young teen, reading all of faulkner as a young adult. Love them both in different ways.

>> No.6297684

>>6297408
kek


real talk though, you can make a great argument for both. I think I liked Faulkners style more, but I otherwise enjoy Hemmingways work more.

>> No.6297688

>>6297414
Not as many as I'd like. I've enjoyed what I've read, but I'd need to read more.

>> No.6297689

>>6297415
Movie posters list the performers' names from left to right in order of their seniority in the story (principal actor/actress followed by supporting cast members) while the pictures in the poster usually have the main character in the middle with the supporting cast around him in no particular order.

>> No.6297692

>>6297415
How many movie posters feature both Hemingway and Faulkner?

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6297914

Faulkner. Hemingway is dad-tier.

>> No.6297939

Hemingway is utter daddy-issues shit

this isn't even a question. Faulkner had actual talent

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>>6297367
I'll fucking knock Hemingway out in one punch. Bobby Bad-Ass wannabe.

>> No.6299843

I heard he liked Key West because of all the available punks.

>> No.6299853

Faulkner. Hemmingway is honestly so choppy and bland I can't read him.

>> No.6299866

Where do I start with both Faulkner and Hemingway?
I've been meaning to read and understand what the reverence is all about.

>> No.6299870

>>6299853
Stop asserting things as if they aren't just an opinion.

These posts are the real cancer of this board.

>> No.6299875

>>6299866
As I Lay Dying for Faulkner

Short Stories for Hemingway

>> No.6299945

Steinbeck is better than both of them.

>> No.6300069

>>6299945

>>6299870

>> No.6300222

>>6299870
>These posts are the real cancer of this board
>opinion
Good fallacy bro

>> No.6300229

>>6299870
>>6300222
BTFO

>> No.6300250

I'm not sure if ernest has any works that can measure up to some of faulkner's classics (sound and fury, absolom) but like another poster said he seems more in tune with the every-man and can portray them wonderfulyl

>> No.6300360

>>6300222
>>6300229
It is not an opinion, it is an observable fact.

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>> No.6300530

>>6300360

all credibility lost

eat shit

>> No.6300534

>>6299870
Everyone knows it's just an opinion. If your mind is feeble enough to receive them as if a fact is told to you then it's your fault.

>> No.6300535
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6300535

Faulker.

Reason? I'm not a Yankee cuck.

THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN

>> No.6300561

>>6300535
Heck yeah.

>> No.6300567

>>6300535

>thinks Faulkner was pro-confederacy

>> No.6300577

>>6300534
underrated post

>> No.6300598

>>6299870
Objectively this poster, is correct.

>> No.6300605

Faulkner.

>>6299945
Steinbeck does not even compare.

>> No.6300608

>>6300534
Nobody knows it's just an opinion.

>> No.6300640

>>6300534
>he's not ubermensch
>he doesn't realize that "opinions" become objective fact in the universe of a true ubermensch

>> No.6301466

Faulkner.

There were a couple of passages in Absolom, Absolom that I just kept on re-reading because the language was so incredibly beautiful.
I stayed with pages just to soak up his prose, re-reading the page three or more times.

Hemingway never made me feel like re-reading a page.

>> No.6301470

Faulkner is the superior novelist, whereas Hemingway is the superior short story writer.

>> No.6301489

>He picked up the two heavy bags and carried them around the station to the other tracks. He looked up the tracks but could not see the train. Coming back, he walked through the bar-room, where people waiting for the train were drinking. He drank an Anis at the bar and looked at the people. They were all waiting reasonably for the train. He went out through the bead curtain. She was sitting at the table and smiled at him.

vs.

>He would hear it, not talking himself, but listening—the wilderness, the big woods, bigger and older than any recorded document of white man fatuous enough to believe he had bought any fragment of it or Indian ruthless enough to pretend that any fragment of it had been his to convey. It was of the men, not white nor black nor red, but men, hunters with the will and hardihood to endure and the humility and skill to survive, and the dogs and the bear and deer juxtaposed and reliefed against it, ordered and compelled by and within the wilderness in the ancient and unremitting contest by the ancient and immitigable rules which voided all regrets and brooked no quarter, the voices quiet and weighty and deliberate for retrospection and recollection and exact remembering, while he squatted in the blazing firelight as Tennie’s Jim squatted, who stirred only to put more wood on the fire and to pass the bottle from one glass to another. Because the bottle was always present, so that after a while it seemed to him that those fierce instants of heart and brain and courage and wiliness and speed were concentrated and distilled into that brown liquor which not women, not boys and children, but only hunters drank, drinking not of the blood they had spilled but some condensation of the wild immortal spirit, drinking it moderately, humbly even, not with the pagan’s base hope of acquiring the virtues of cunning and strength and speed, but in salute to them.

No contest.

>> No.6301518

>>6301489
Hemingway is like a past-tense William Gibson.

>He picks up the bags and carries them around the station to the other tracks. He looks up the tracks but can not see the train. Coming back, he walks through the bar-room, where people waiting for the train are drinking. He drinks an Anishu at the bar and looks at the people. They are all waiting anxiously for the train. He leaves through the bead curtain. A woman sitting at the table smiles at him.

>> No.6302960

bump

>> No.6302994

Why americans are so obsessed with faulkner and hemingway? They are cool but they aren't nothing spectacular (faulkner is a lot better imo, but who cares). It is unsettling how egocentric americans are

>> No.6303006

>>6302994
It is unsettling how you make such wide generalizations. Please, take a seat on my chair, would you like to talk about how you hate yourself?

>> No.6303016

>>6303006
Ok, you are right, faulkner have his weakness and while hemingway seems more like a meme than an author he is worth his shit.

>> No.6303037

I'm pushing through the last pages of The sun also rises and i have to say it's an awfully boring book. The dialogue is the most bland i've ever read, and the entire book is about 4 people either drinking, watching bulls fight or walking in "the arcanes" while speaking to each other in the most shallow way imaginable. It's just a terrible fucking book--i tried to appreciate it but i simply can't.

>> No.6303086

>>6302994
>Why are the irish so obsessed with Joyce and Yeats? They are cool but they aren't anything spectacular. It is unsettling how egocentric the irish are.