Gass's The Tunnel was to literature what Einstein's

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>>9428260
Susan G. Komen's setters fuck

>>9428260
this is why literature is considered the lowest form of art

>>9428260

>has to make themselves feel better by comparing his favorite old fart writer to other artists.

Pathetic.

>>9428260
But i have. I prefer omensetters luck desu famalam.

>>9428260
I forced myself to read it through once which was kind of an error since I feel I ruined my enjoyment of it, although some pages were jaw-droppingly amazing in terms of style. I mean, I'm a /pol/-tard who beats his wife and children and I even felt like weeping at how beautiful it was. Literature has never made me do that, not once before or after, made me want to cry from the sheer beauty of the style alone. Not Joyce, not Updike, not Shakespeare, maybe Milton in Paradise Lost. I've been awed but never moved almost to tears by good style except by The Tunnel.

But yeah, a lot of the rest of it was a slog. I feel it's worth a re-read by me though. I feel like it's a book it's better to have a copy of to read slowly, having checked it out from the library forced me to rush and thus lose enjoyment.

>>9428260
Gass sucks lmfao

Joyce will always be the 20th century's best and most important writer

I'm going to read The Tunnel soon, how difficult is it?
Will read no matter what, just want to know what I'm in for.

Rank these:
Joyce
Proust
Musil
Broch
Mann
Beckett
Faulkner
Woolf
Hemingway
Steinbeck
Nabokov
Orwell
DeLillo
Gass
Pynchon
McCarthy
Wallace
Gaddis
Mcelroy
Kafka
Borges
Bolano

>>9428882
Stop beating your wife and children, famalam

>>9428961
>rank

>>9428961Joyce 5
Proust
Musil
Broch
Mann
Beckett 7
Faulkner 9
Woolf6
Hemingway
Steinbeck
Nabokov 8
Orwell
DeLillo 10
Gass 4
Pynchon 3
McCarthy
Wallace
Gaddis 2
Mcelroy1
Kafka
Borges
Bolano

I dont read books not originally written in english

>>9428961
1: Proust
2-22: Everyone else/who cares

>>9428961
Why is /lit/ about how many people you've read?

Why are practically all of these people the same as are always memed on /lit/?

Even if I have read about all but 2 or 3 of these (which I have), why would I waste time ranking them?

Why do you assume that someone would have read equal amounts of all of them, or even that they've read them recently? For instance, I feel much more qualified to talk about Pynchon or Faulkner then I do to talk about Orwell and Steinbeck, who I read small amounts of in high school. Thus, I don't feel like ravaging my memory to decide who exactly is the best and who a little less better and who worse etc.

Why would anyone waste time ranking this?

>>9428972
just kidding, senpai. Read The Tunnel, it's a great book.

>>9429025
The answer is steinbeck

Gass is fucking incredible. The Tunnel literally changed my life.

Is it best to start with his short stories?

>>9429704
Start with Middle C

What's better the Tunnel or Recognitions? (I'm deciding which 'big' American novel to read next)

>>9430016
Gass wrote the introduction for The Recognitions but Gass also is still living. I've only read The Tunnel so I hope this helps.

Missed you, Gassposter <3

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The Tunnel is the best meme book,

650 pages of pure /lit/core.

>>9428260
Belly full of GAS looking nigga

>>9428961
1: Tolstoy.
2-23: Everyone else.

>>9429704
Gass himself recommends starting with on being blue