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Looking for novels that could qualify as prose poems.
Pic-related is THE prose poem.

>> No.9628614

Moby Dick

>> No.9628615

The premise of this thread fills me with contempt but Gogol called Dead Souls a poem.

>> No.9628626

>>9628615
>The premise of this thread fills me with contempt
Why?

>> No.9628632

>>9628612

What do you mean by 'qualify as prose poems'? One of the major components of prose poetry is its relatively small size... They're not novel-length works!

>> No.9628648

Une saison en enfer pêh

>> No.9628657

>>9628632
>What do you mean by 'qualify as prose poems'?
It means they provide esthetic pleasure similar to the one poems do.
>One of the major components of prose poetry is its relatively small size
It's a metaphor.
>...
>!
Nevermind.

>> No.9628662

>>9628632
Works with prose that has obvious roots in rhythm, sonic devices, lyrical intensity, and (frequently) narrative fragmentation. If you can point to a sentence in the work and say "this sentence is merely informational, and without lyricism" it probably isn't what I'm looking for.

I've been reading a lot of epic/long form poetry and am looking at stuff to compare it to.
>>9628614
>>9628615
Thanks guys

Another one (that's a bit obvious) is Finnegans Wake.

>> No.9628734

Invisible Cities

>> No.9629418

>>9628612
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes.

>> No.9629434

>>9628612
Anything written by García Márquez, basically.

>> No.9629456

MY

>> No.9629466

>>9628734
I couldn't get into Winter Night a Traveler, should I still get this?
>>9629418
Def gonna get this, anything T.S. masturbates too has to be good.
>>9629434
Favorite?
>>9629456
Your what?

>> No.9629478

>>9629466
Invisible Cities is one of my all-time favorites and I didn't like Winter's Night at all.

>> No.9629514

>>9629478
>>9629466
Yeah, Invisible Cities is - in some ways - a less tryhard/convoluted 'If on a winter's night'. I love both of them, but it took less work to love Invisible Cities.

>> No.9629527

>>9629478
>>9629514
Cool! Ill probs get it! I just had a hard time dealing with how overwhelmingly 'meta' If On a Winter's Night a Traveler was.

>> No.9629529

>>9629527
Invisible Cities is still somewhat meta, but it's far, far less in-your-face about it.

>> No.9629538

>>9629466
100Years, probably cuz i love big long books. Also it's the most "prose poetic".

>> No.9629546

>>9629514
I'm not sure "less tryhard/convoluted" is right, it's a totally different thing.

>> No.9629577
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9629577

>> No.9629591

>>9629466
>Your what?
DIARY

>> No.9629597

Pale Fire?

>> No.9629895

>>9629597
I've been told to read this so many times. I guess I should go ahead (I just didn't like the prose of what little I read in Lolita (the first few pages)).

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9629945

obvious answer

>> No.9629949

>>9628612
The Prophet

>> No.9629951
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9629951

Try this.

>> No.9629958

>>9629949
garbage book

>> No.9629963

>>9629958
its pleb tier with zero subtext, but the prose is good

>> No.9629986

good prose = prose poem

You guys are fucking retarded

>> No.9629995

>>9629986

I'm not looking for 'good prose'. I'm looking for novels that can fit a prose-poems definition.

>>9628662

>> No.9630001

>>9628632
>One of the major components of prose poetry is its relatively small size
lol

>> No.9630008

Blood Meridian

>> No.9630018

>>9629597
No, pale fire is just a poem.
Lolita would've been a more correct answer.

>> No.9630021

>>9629986
The worst is that that's almost the definition.

>> No.9630037

>>9629995
I'm saying that people here think that good prose makes a novel a prose poem, for example these idiots
>>9629577
>>9629597
>>9629434

>> No.9630057

>>9630037
That's fair. I was a little suspicious when it seemed exclusively /lit/ memes were being posted. Admittedly, I haven't read much prose lately at all though.

>> No.9630072

>>9630037
>garcia and fucking pale fire as examples
Are you fucking retarded?

>> No.9630081

Look Homeward, Angel

>> No.9630092

>>9630072
Are you saying Pale Fire and GGM's novels are examples of prose poems, you blithering idiot?

>>9630057
Actual examples of prose poems are Lautremont's Maldoror, Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, and Poe's and Baudelaire's prose poems. I wouldn't call The Waves a prose poem, even if it's highly poetic. Still, it could be argued by both sides. But One Hundred Years of Solitude being a prose poem? Not by any stretch. At least not if you know what you are talking about.

>> No.9630119

>>9630092
No i'm saying Pale Fire is a fucking poem.
And that GGM's novels are pretty real contenders for the prose poem stamp, especially solitude.

>> No.9630120

>>9630037
Lezama Lima himself called paradiso a "novelized" poem
kys

>> No.9630132

>>9630119
They really are not. Yes, the language is poetic, but his novels are very well-defined narratives. As I said, having poetic prose does not make a novel a prose poem.

>>9630120
So what? Fite me irl fag

>> No.9630135

Pater's Marius the Epicurean, Imaginary Portraits.
Baudelaire's Paris Spleen.
Gautier's Mlle de Maupin.
Lautreamont's Maldoror.
Paul Valery in general.

>> No.9630140

>>9630092
Well, I've definitely read shorter prose poems (mainly Ashbery), but I've had a growing increase my understanding "The Epic" and I'm at a place of reading exclusively epics, with shorter poems as breathers.

>> No.9630254

>>9630135
most of the titles on this list are, in fact, prose poems, as opposed to poem-like novels...

>> No.9630261

Antwerp

>> No.9630279

>>9630254
Only the Baudelaire, actually. And arguably The Imaginary Portraits.

>> No.9631287

>>9628612
Nathalie Sarraute - Tropismes
Francis Ponge - Savon

>> No.9631291

>>9629951
Oh hey, I just read this a few weeks ago.

>> No.9631547

I quite liked Doctor Sax by Kerouac and think iit qualifies. I know that Kerouac is a divisive pick on this board, but this particular book fits the criteria well.

Also what's with all these street sign captchas?

>> No.9631548

Finnegans Wake