Intoxicating Prose

>>8770874
My native language is English btw. Should I focus mainly on works originally written in English or do the highly acclaimed translations do ISOLT and other non-English classics justice?

>>8770881
by Virginia Woolf, wasn't she the author who was a big fan of James Joyce during his life? I'll check it out, thanks Anon

>>8770874
Borges and McCarthy.

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>>8770890
yeah, huge fan.

>>8770897
I don't think she retracted her statements. She just said she would reread Ulysses to give it another shot. But I don't think she did

>>8770929
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf were born and died in the same years- 1882 and 1941.
>4spooky6me

>>8770954
They were the same person, idiot

>>8770954
"They" engaged into some blatant samefagging desu.

>>8770874
I am not the infamous Gassposter of this board, but I will say Gass is one of the greatest sentence constructors post war. I know sentence constructors sounds like a pretentious term for writers but i don't mean it that way, its just the way he makes sentences by piecing together words in a different way to most authors, honestly its impossible to convey it in words right now, I'm too drunk, but seriously give The Pedersen Kid a read, best written novella of 20th century, imo.

>>8770874
Lolita is an obvious pick, for good reason. Just the opening paragraph should be explanation enough.
Henry Miller is another great who tends to get pigeonholed as only being erotic/obscene.
As far as works in translation, it's hit and miss on what actually translates well/what has been translated well. Luckily a lot of attention is being paid these days to translating things to preserved the quality of the prose, especially by independent presses. In my experience New Directions and Dalkey publish a large quantity of high quality translatiins.
Lispector's Agua Viva is a wonder to read, even in translation.