Chaucer is the greatest writer of Medieval English. Shakespeare

Why ask questions you already know the answer to?

>>7978712
I think you know the answer. One of them you've posted, the other had breasts.

>>7978716
>the other had breasts.
Never knew that about Faulkner

>>7978717
>American
>English language
nice mee-meeh massa

>>7978712
George RR Martin probably. No prose can be as vivid as his. It is good and purple prose.

>>7978788
زميل آسف الانكليزي .

The guy in the picture you posted, Jimmy or whatever

Joyce is definitely the best modernist but who is the best postmodernist? Pynchon?

>>7978788
Hilarious coming from someone who thinks Woolf worth reading

>>7979421
Borges, Robbe-Grillet, Pynchon

>>7979424
Hilarious coming from a shitposter

>>7979445
I was only replying to your incoherent peasant gibberish

>>7979421
Philip Roth

>>7978712
For Modernism, Joyce is the most obvious choice.
>>7979421
Gaddis and Gass, though he doesn't consider himself to be a postmodernist.

>>7979424
>not liking woolf

wew lad sure is getting /reddit/ in here

>>7979427

Borges bridges the gap between modernism and postmodernism, but I wouldn't call him a postmodernist.

>>7979536
Just because DFW said it doesn't make it true

>>7979552

Just because Borges writes in a surreal style doesn't make him a postmodernist, either.

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>>7978712
>Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.

>>7978712

>Dickens

Dickens is the J.K. Rowling of Victorian fiction.

>>7979509
>liking trash
Sure is getting Reddit in here

>>7979568
Pierre Menard isn't postmodern?

>>7979581

Tlon Uqbar Whatever Whatever is closer to postmodernism than Pierre Menard.

>>7979586
It really isn't

>>7978712
George Eliot is superior to Dickens in every way.

>>7979590

Wow good point

>>7979421
>who is the best postmodernist? Pynchon?
Unless we are trying to be contrarians, yes.

>>7979427
>Robbe-Grillet
? Which book are you thinking about

>all this Dickens hate
Off yourselves retards

No Herman Melville mentions? Herman Melville.

>>7979619
Le voyeur

>>7979608
about as good as your original baseless assertion

>>7979982
He wrote one good book
If you actually think he's the greatest modernist you're an idiot

>>7980172
>He wrote one good book
Same could be said for Joyce.
>If you actually think he's the greatest modernist you're an idiot
If you actually think he's a modernist at all, you're an idiot.

John Green

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>>7978712
>Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.

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>Dickens

>>7978712
>baseless opinion stated as fact
>baseless opinion stated as fact
>baseless opinion stated as fact
>question that will be answered differently by nearly everyone and will achieve nothing but argument

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>Dickens is the gr
stopped reading there

>>7978712
>le dickens is bad meme

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>>7978712
>Dickens is the greatest Victorian novelist.