Who's the manliest writer?

>>8854014
Tolkien.

Hemingway

Woolf

>>8854014
Marcus Aurelius

>>8854068
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>writing
>manly

>>8854014
Mishima

>>8854014

Hemingway was a veteran (wounded one at that), but Faulkner once said "Hemingway has never been known to use a word that would make the read grab a dictionary"

I think, by default, a manly writer would have to be a well winded writer and have something rugged about him.

Leo Tolstoy was certainly a figure in his time. I also like Steinbeck (really classy fellow) and Joseph Conrad.

>>8854075
Ammianus Marcellinus

Plato.

>Socrates ripped pasta

>>8854014
Jünger, Hemingway and Celine

Depends on your cultural gold standard of manliness.

Most Ancient Greeks are a bit too keen on bum sex with pubescent boys, even if their society's core values hold physical and mental excellence above all else - the essence of Greek Heroism is not in doing good, but in doing what you please and being unstoppable doing it.

Samurai have a similar fixation on bum sex - though to a slightly lesser degree, but their standard of manliness is all over the place; whatever the social class they deem it worthy to be accepting of one's fate, and to act appropriate to one's station.

Modern writers tend to be less big on bumming lads, but nowhere near as big on things like defending your honour even until death, or proving your excellence by simply killing everything that stands before you.

Moderns have to compromise on things like that.

For the old buggery and vengeance minded school of thought you should seek out shit like Epictetus' Enchiridion, and Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings.

For the new school you can hit up some youtube vids or summat, I don't care.

>>8854095
only good answer

>>8854014
elliot rodgers