Who are the best prose writers in English?

>>8434248
>English

but OP, that's an American

so you can namedrop them at your next cocktail party?

>>8434248
Woolf
Emily Bronte
Nabokov
Faulkner

Joyce
Beckett
Melville
Faulkner

>>8434286
>Emily Bronte
I keep seeing this on here. I don't know how to agree.

gass
joyce
woolf
pynchon

>>8434296
no Capote?
no Steinbeck?
no Suess?

baka

>>8434301
Steinbeck has the prose of a contemporary fantasy writer. It's superficial and basic, and bubbly only when describing landscapes and scenery.

>>8434248
Me

>>8434326

Good job you responded to bait.

elmore leonard

Is Roth worth my time? What should I read if he is?

>>8434363
i married a communist and american pastoral are both good

>>8434326
its down to earth, and thats precisely what make him american. I am reminded of Salinger.

>>8434360
Good job you contributed nothing to everything

>>8434376
>its down to earth, and thats precisely what make him american
Which, in my opinion, is a horrible response to what OP asked. He didn't ask who the 'most american' writer was.

>>8434299
You either love Emily's prose, or you don't, there's not much middle ground. The common complaint that I hear is that it's too heavy-handed to thoroughly enjoy.

Regardless of how you feel about it, you should recognize that it's masterful prose.

>>8434385
K. Why is it masterful

>>8434385
>emily bronte
>heavy handed
youre thinking of her older sister

Jane Austen, my dudes

>>8434248
>tfw the best English prose writer of all time isn't even a native English speaker

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>>8434248
David Duke

>>8434273
Who wrote in English.

>>8434248
Fitzgerald.

Fuck all you who think his shit is contrived.

>>8434385
Read Wuthering Heights and loved her description of the cold moors and the spooky romantic tone, but the story itself and the character interactions wore on me. I just didnt care at all after the first generation died.

>>8434847
/lit/ only hates Fitzgerald because /lit/ is desperately contrarian, and hates the idea of plebs being able to appreciate a patrician book (The Great Gatsby)

This is what happens when people build their whole identities around loving exclusive literature that no one else can understand except for INTJ genyusses like them

>>8434286
>being this wrong
unironically??

>>8434300
Good list, though I'd replace Pynchon with Gaddis.

>>8434525
shut up /pol/ and stop forcing your shit

>>8434248
Thomas Browne
Cormac McCarthy
Herman Melville
Virginia Woolf
William Gaddis

>>8434362
i like you

>>8434858
that attitude is actually what kept me out of /lit/erature for a long-ass time, tho, bruh

dostoyevsky, nabokov, many of the big classic authors are incredibly well known

>>8434889
forgot Henry Miller
Frederick Prokosch is under rated
Alexander Theroux has an interesting but tiring style

>>8434248
WALT WHITMAN DESCRIBES A BLOWJOB IN 18TH CENTURY CMOOOON

>>8434248
William Faulkner

Leonard Cohen