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Great prose writers who mostly wrote only-okay novels? : Anonymous : 17 days ago : No.6585

John Banville comes to mind (though The Book of Evidence is a beautiful novel). Any others?

Anonymous : 17 days ago : No.6587
Who is this guy
Anonymous : 16 days ago : No.6592
T.S. Eliot
Anonymous : 16 days ago : No.6593 >>6634
I like Orwell's novels but they probably do not represent his finest work. >>6593 > Coetzee I thought Disgrace was supposed to be really good?
also, A.S. Byatt, Julian Barnes, Fowles, Coetzee, above all: Don DeLilo.
Anonymous : 16 days ago : No.6627 >>6631
>>6627 I would have thought that his novels were good and his prose bad!
Aldous Huxley
Anonymous : 15 days ago : No.6631 >>6632
>>6631 He wrote a lot of tedious philosophical novels (Island, Brave new world, I have no memory of his other novels despite reading most of them), while his essays are brilliant (Vulgarity in Literature, The Doors of Perception). Sartre is another one like him, while Camus is the other way around.
>>6627
Aldous Huxley
I would have thought that his novels were good and his prose bad!
Anonymous : 15 days ago : No.6632
>>6631
>>6627 I would have thought that his novels were good and his prose bad!
He wrote a lot of tedious philosophical novels (Island, Brave new world, I have no memory of his other novels despite reading most of them), while his essays are brilliant (Vulgarity in Literature, The Doors of Perception). Sartre is another one like him, while Camus is the other way around.
Anonymous : 15 days ago : No.6634
I like Orwell's novels but they probably do not represent his finest work. >>6593
also, A.S. Byatt, Julian Barnes, Fowles, Coetzee, above all: Don DeLilo.
> Coetzee I thought Disgrace was supposed to be really good?
Anonymous : 4 days ago : No.6845
Orwells novels are just fine. His prose is much better than other names stated in this thread. its true that his best work lies in his essays. unfortunately, but what can a man do?


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