Are masterful prose and marketable prose mutually exclusive?

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>writing
>marketable

>>9110210
no, absolutely not. Lolita and Underworld come to mind immediately, two best sellers

>>9110351

Would they have been published today?

I don't think the market today welcomes masterful prose, save for writers already long established due to their reputations and reasonably sized audiences.

>>9110356
Yes, probably

Au contraire. The best work is both accessible and inexhaustible.

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There is no masterful prose successful in the market today, thus either:
>noone is producing masterful prose
or
>no it is not marketable.
or both

Either way it is depressing.

>>9111052
Barth. But he's kinda old and I don't know if he's writing anything else currently