Who is the Renoir of literature?

I always thoguht it was cool how one of the best filmmakers of the 20th century is the son of one of the best painters of the 19th century

>>8532681
Someone largely irrelevant by now.
I never understood all the attention Renoir gets.

>>8532684
JG Ballard

>>8532684
Finnegans Wake

Maybe Zola or something

>>8532685
Patrish genes

>>8532694
What have you seen by him?

>>8532708
>Patrish genes
And contacts, and money.

>>8532762
And growing up in an environment that breeds intellectual development and creativity.

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>>8532762
>>8532783
Nah it's deeper than that. If you look at their work frame by frame you can see the similarity in how they looked at the world. They had the same eye for movement, for things approaching and moving away from the subject. They had a way of relating objects and actors back at the viewer that is very social, very involving. You can tell they were both people-people