John Banville comes to mind (though The Book of Evidence is a beautiful novel). Any others?
Who is this guy
T.S. Eliot
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>>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!
>>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.
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?