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Who are the best authors at clean prose?
Someone who uses no adverbs, adjectives, dialogue tags; other than said, yelled, whispered.
Someone who pays attention to the rhythm of stresses.
Someone who has clear pane prose rather than stained glass prose.
Someone where they pull off description, while mixing setting, character, and plot into a single sentence.
Someone who allows the words to drive the story, rather than take one out of the story.
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Hemingway
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>>8226370
tao lin
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>>8226370
Hank The Cowdog sounds right up your alley
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Cormac McCarthy
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>>8226370
carver. maybe frank o connor. cormac mccarthy is a bad example because his prose draws from a lot of weird stuff. e.g "starsprent" in blood meridian is a portmanteau of star and sprent, an archaic, middle english word meaning 'sprinkled'. hardly clean, easy prose, and it's definitely easy to get lost in his diction and diverse florid and dragging sentences in general. maybe his dialogue is 'clean'. i don't know.
for contemporary? knaussgard is really terse as well. communicates without too crazy diction.
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>>8226370
Literally, unironically, genuinely, Hemmingway.
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