>"The train moved at last, filling me with a happiness as crystal-clear as a vegetarian girl’s urine.”
why has he not got the nobel yet?
william vollmann is teh genius
>>9324029
jesus
i knew from the afterword in journey to the end of the night he was awful but that's something else
hes discord tier (ie. shit)
>tfw never fallen for the vollmann/gass/gaddis/mcelroy meme
I'll never be tricked into reading an american author
>>9324712
gaddis is good, gass is gas (ie poo), mcelroy isn't real, only popular here cause obscure/rare
>>9324760
this man knows
>>9324712
how unfortunate. volly is good stuff. gaddis is amazing, gass..eh...mcelroy...bigger meh
>>9324712
the fuck is wrong with melville, steinbeck and hemingway?
>>9325228
hemmingways prose is so dry. i can never figure out if im reading someone whos genuinely dumb, or if hes got a genius grasp on the language no one has been able to replicate