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9093704 No.9093704 [Reply] [Original]

Who is the best prose author and why was it this man?

>> No.9093707

>>9093704
he's great, one of the best ever, but he doesn't exist without joyce.

>> No.9093709

>>9093704
you already know why

Shit's otherworldly in terns of aesthetic appeal and sheer perfection. He just nails every word. Every word hits.

>> No.9093710

>>9093707
And Joyce doesn't exist without Homer. What's your point?

>> No.9093724

>>9093710
joyce isn't a derivative of homer. A descendant as everyone else who writes is, but not a derivative. Nabokov makes several jokes about being gay for Proust and Joyce

>> No.9093761

>>9093710
>without Homer

Homer never wrote anything.

>> No.9093766

of all time?
Dante
in english?
Thomas Wolfe

>> No.9093778

>>9093704
Pynchon destroys this man.