Wait, so can aesthetic via prose actually be considered the pinnacle

>>9006158
Wow OP. This is probably the most philosemitic post I have ever read.

>>9006158
Why can't you spend years learning another language? It's not hard.

>>9006174
Because language is obsolete. One race, one language, one culture, one religion, one philosophy, that's the future.

>>9006158
>Wait, so can aesthetic via prose actually be considered the pinnacle of literature and poetry? How can that hold up on an international stage, where it's likely that an individual can only ever hold real appreciation for his native language, which he has spent years coming to understand the nuances of?
No one SERIOUSLY thinks prose is all that matters in fiction, and if they do, they're dumb. You come on to this board too much, and/or are dumb. Hope that clears everything up.

>>9006181
genre fiction reading retard spotted, fuck off outta here kid

>>9006174
Is learning the language the same as being brought up in it? Beautiful prose stresses a language to its limits, how can you understand its beauty if you haven't lived in it?

>>9006181
There's an entire school of aesthetes who focus on prose as the core of literature.

>>9006185
>Is learning the language the same as being brought up in it? Beautiful prose stresses a language to its limits, how can you understand its beauty if you haven't lived in it?
Why can't you? Spend a few years deeply studying a language, or better yet travel to different countries, and it'll be second nature. Lots of people in history have been multilingual. Until recently all educated people were expected to be competent in Latin and Greek.

>>9006184
Point in case, a bad troll who won't get any more responses than mine.

>>9006185
>There's an entire school of aesthetes who focus on prose as the core of literature.
Do you have proof of this? Even Updike's most favorable critics admit that there's a basic shallowness to his books the prose doesn't cover up.

In fact, Updike's works are PROOF POSITIVE that prose is not the only thing that matters in literature.

>>9006185
>Is walking through nature the same as being brought up in it? Beautiful scenery stresses nature to its limits, how can you understand its beauty if you haven't lived in it?

>there is on element that matters the most in fiction
That's like judging poetry solely on rhyme, there's a lot more to it.

>>9006195
Updike is the single literary masterpiece of all human history, it cannot be improved upon.

>>9006195
>Who is Kant?

>>9006202
Lmao

Idk why I'm responding, but anyone who's read Updike can see how ridiculous this idea is (which could be taken as true IF prose was the only thing that mattered in literature)

>>9006206
Explain to me how Kant thinks prose is the core of literature.

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>>9006158
>Wait, so can aesthetic via prose actually be considered the pinnacle of literature and poetry?
>aesthetic via prose
>pinnacle of literature and poetry
>poetry