Everyone talks about how important prose is, but what is good

Borges

it means the words are good

>>8707773
Nabokov, Joyce, Faulkner, McCarthy, DeLillo, Proust, Lowry, Shakespeare, Pynchon all have God tier prose off the top of my head.

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GOAT prose

>>8707794
>shakespeare
>prose
other than that good choices

>>8707773
"good" is subjective anon, whether you like short simple prose with double meanings or drawn out extensively detailed prose

Little, Big by John Crowley is one of the most beautiful, underappreciated books.
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
others I can't think of

>>8707866
waves is a meme-pick for Woolf, any of her novels have at least a precise plot and doesn't fail at crafting beautiful prose still
pseud btfo

Virginia Woolf is often thought to be the prose master of novels. Especially here on /lit/.

Roald Dahl

>>8707975
this is the correct answer.

>>8707850
Good is subjective? Not really.

>>8708154
i agree - what's subjective is the choice anon posits, what's not is that both options constitute 'good' prose, whether you're personally disposed to them or not

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Lolita
>mfw reading it

Not McCarthy though

>>8708186
>>8708154

>value statements are objective

that's how much of a scrub you boys are

>>8708154
>>8708186
You have no business posting on a literature board.

>>8707819
Have you read Henry IV?

Oscar Wilde
Akutagawa