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Anonymous Fri May 1 15:26:09 2015 No.6481545 [Reply] [Original]

ITT only the best prose

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:35:15 2015 No.6481580 File: 13 KB, 225x346, 41gMT3BaWiL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6481545 NABOKOV A B O K O V

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:36:54 2015 No.6481593 >>6481545 >prose >translation >camus What the hell, kid?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:37:11 2015 No.6481595 File: 23 KB, 220x315, 220px-TheSoundAndTheFuryCover[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6481545 Quentin > Jason > Benji

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:39:01 2015 No.6481605 >>6481545 I like Camus as much as the next anon, but you really should not be considering a translation as 'prose.'

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:40:10 2015 No.6481610 File: 30 KB, 220x279, fyodor-dostoevsky_6-t.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Definitely Dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:40:12 2015 No.6481612 >prose >translation

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:44:08 2015 No.6481628 File: 1003 KB, 4500x4334, 1429709630686.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6481610 >Dostoevsky >prose This guy is only good for his philosophy, and hardly even that.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:46:47 2015 No.6481641 >>6481593 >>6481605 >>6481612 Everything you read is a translation Think on that before you shit post

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:47:34 2015 No.6481643 >>6481605 You're incredibly stupid.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:47:55 2015 No.6481644 >>6481628 >I read books abridged by bored homewives and feel superior to the original text because of it.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:49:22 2015 No.6481648 >>6481628 Oh, so you can read Russian then?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:50:51 2015 No.6481654 >>6481595 >confusing "best prose" with best section >not even including 1/4 of the book And for that matter, posting Sound and the Fury instead of Absalom, Absalom! in a prose thread

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:51:06 2015 No.6481655 >>6481641 >>6481643 nice same faging be mad lol.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:52:11 2015 No.6481661 >>6481641 >Think on that before you shit post >Everything you read is a translation

Anonymous Fri May 1 15:52:17 2015 No.6481662

>>6481644
>>6481648
I attack Dostoevsky and all the butthurt Ruskie-fags come out of the woodwork.
Dostoevsky was shit, even Nabokov pointed this out. While his characters are second to none, the long drawn out boring dialogues are fucking atrocious. Not to mention his lack of style, boring and terse prose.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:53:28 2015 No.6481665 >>6481662 If you ain't read'in it ain Russa, you best go lay down

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:53:40 2015 No.6481666 File: 237 KB, 750x1334, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6481655 Nice try, newfag.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:54:26 2015 No.6481667 File: 7 KB, 200x313, 200px-Dubliners_title_page.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:55:53 2015 No.6481671 >>6481545 he was just copying hemingway

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 15:56:10 2015 No.6481672 It's threads like these that makes me wonder i you faggots ever actually read

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 16:22:43 2015 No.6481783 >>6481672 Most people here do read, but very few are well read. Seems like most have only been into literature for a few years at most, with not a lot read at all.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 16:24:39 2015 No.6481794 File: 38 KB, 339x500, homer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The most epic sounding prose can only come from the original epic.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:07:33 2015 No.6481938 Is good prose meaningless without substance?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:09:59 2015 No.6481951 >>6481938 yes but the majority of /lit/ will never agree on it

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:13:36 2015 No.6481965 >>6481794 >the most epic sounding prose was originally verse lol fuck you and fuck fagles

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:14:50 2015 No.6481970 >>6481951 Lolita is the perfect example. The first half was both beautiful in writing and plot, the second half was well written but lacked substance.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:17:27 2015 No.6481977 >>6481970 >both beautiful in writing and plot yeah, I don't know. the plot was definitely better than in second half, that's for sure. The whole thing felt like lacking substance.

Anonymous Fri May 1 17:18:11 2015 No.6481982

>>6481610

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>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:19:54 2015 No.6481990 >>6481977 What is not beautiful about a self aware monster battling his urges?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:21:02 2015 No.6481991 >>6481990 the monster wasn't too pleasant

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:21:49 2015 No.6481995 >>6481666 three sixes of an imminent btfo on hayrising fire hullahgirls and more

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:22:11 2015 No.6481996 >>6481662 Dostoevsky had more interesting prose than Nabokov.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:22:21 2015 No.6481997 >>6481991 >main characters of books have to be pleasant ah ha ha ha plens among us

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:23:54 2015 No.6482000 >>6481997 ahehaheah, they don't, I just stated that the protag was the non-beautiful bit

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:25:39 2015 No.6482008 File: 473 KB, 1043x1125, belljar-e1358468246327.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6481545

Anonymous Fri May 1 17:26:58 2015 No.6482013

>>6481662
Dosto was a true man of the people and knew about suffering, that's why his characters were so good. Nabokov was a rich spoilt cunt who knows nothing about life, hence no substance. It's a classic case of jealousy. Nabokov's granddad or someone also sent Dosto to Siberia. His whole family hated him. Nabokov is shit when it comes to substance, even criticizing it.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:27:26 2015 No.6482015 >>6481666 >>6481995 nice samfaging 2much-autism-for-one-post-2-c0ntain

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:28:37 2015 No.6482018 >>6481997 >>6482000 >mental problem

>>	Anonymous Fri May 1 17:29:40 2015 No.6482023 >>6482018 not really, I just wanted the trips so badly that I didn't include the irony disclaimer in one must live for the trips and dubs

Anonymous Sat May 2 00:55:01 2015 No.6483463
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"Falling on his knees by her bedside he held his wife's hand to his lips, kissing it, and that hand, by a feeble movement of the fingers, replied to the kisses. And meanwhile at the foot of the bed, like a flame above the lamp, flickered in Mary Vlasevna's skilful hands the life of a human being who had never before existed: a human being who, with the same right and the same importance to himself, would live and would procreate others like himself.

Alive! Alive! ..."

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 06:08:12 2015 No.6483909 File: 21 KB, 375x400, 644646456.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Provincial Letters or The Pensées, both are god tier in term of prose

>>	Anonymous Sat May 2 09:27:49 2015 No.6484340 File: 223 KB, 432x676, hobbes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6481545 The prose of Hobbes is incredibly clear and engaging considering how stuffy the subject matter could be

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