Who has the best poetic prose? Why?
>>8083558
st augustine
>>8083558
Gass: no other author has the range of expression and style, and no other author can compose a sentence like he can.
Just read actual poetry desu
Pessoa, even if I fucking hate Portuguese
>>8083573
I like his style but what he actually writes about is just so purely whatever.
>>8083558
define "poetic"
>>8083655
Prose whose value comes from its beauty and its melody, focusing less on effectivity.
>>8083666
nice try satan
>>8083666
what about that definition is poetic
poetic relates to poetry, not all poetry is beautiful or melodic. beyond that, beauty isn't a quantifiable thing.
>>8083682
1º: Not everything Dante wrote was about hell and damnation, so, what about that definition of dantesque.
2º Yeah, I guess requesting ''the best'' was a mistake. Your ''favourite'' then, huh?
*Thanks for the correction, btw.
That obese fag William Gass
Melville's prose best prose
>poetic prose
please stop saying this, prose is by definition non-prosodic, or not "poetry"
>>8083578
Well, what don't you like about it? It could just be that you haven't read the right book for you. I can understand why you wouldn't like him if you're not American, though, since, in the end, all of his works have their heart in the same place--the Midwest.
>>8083835
lol it might be because I'm a citybird, but what story would you recommend for starters? I read a bit of Omensetter's Luck but like i said it wasnt really hitting any numbers for me, maybe I could give it another go.
>>8083884
Well, if you're looking for something more provocative and virtuoso, check out my favorite--The Tunnel; however, if you want something with more interesting inner workings, check out In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.
>>8084135
thanks anon
>>8083558
pushkin and gogol
and flaubert
Of everyone I've ever read, Rilke has the best prose.
Makes sense since he's mainly a poet.
>>8084177
translated?
>>8084161
No p.
>>8083558
Wow, Zola is definitely underrated here. Germinal is gorgeous.
>>8085293
Is this the one where someone's dick gets chopped off?
>>8085293
>Zola
You could have chosen Huysmans, Stendhal, Maupassant, Goncourt and you choose fucking Zola?
The only objectively correct answer is Tommy P.
>>8085293
Zola is well known for his shit prose.
Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Nabokov, Lowry, Bowles.
>>8085901
You forgot Pynchon.
Woolf and Nabokov are my faves!
>>8086347
>PATBALL COMPARED TO JOYCES CHAMPION GAME
you fucking memer
>>8086347
>Pynchon's prose sucks
t. Non-reader.
Bruno Schulz's poetic prose is nice.
>>8083815
what are some better adjectives for this, anons?
>>8086347
>is patball
get the fuck out of here
>>8083558
Binyon
>>8084290
Yes, admittedly (Stephen Mitchell). Still anything better than I've read in the original English.
>>8086944
lol
u srs lad
>>8087892
In the original language it is gorgeous, Nabokov called him the greatest Russian stylist of all time.
Don DeLillo
