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Who is the best prose author and why was it this man?
>>9093704
he's great, one of the best ever, but he doesn't exist without joyce.
>>9093704
you already know why
Shit's otherworldly in terns of aesthetic appeal and sheer perfection. He just nails every word. Every word hits.
>>9093707
And Joyce doesn't exist without Homer. What's your point?
>>9093710
joyce isn't a derivative of homer. A descendant as everyone else who writes is, but not a derivative. Nabokov makes several jokes about being gay for Proust and Joyce
>>9093710
>without Homer
Homer never wrote anything.
of all time?
Dante
in english?
Thomas Wolfe
>>9093704
Pynchon destroys this man.