Joyce, Gaddis and Pynchon are the only novelists you really need.
>>23625435I need Balzac and Dostoevsky, so I disagree.
>>23625492Ghastly rigmarole
>>23625496Ok, Vlad.
>>23625435Hehehe cat with a propeller hat.
>>23625492>BalzacMediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes.>Dostoevsky Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
>>23625563see >>23625536
>>23625435>joyceA favorite betwern the ages 15 yo 20 but no more>gaddisA nonentity. Means absolutely nothing to me>pynchonDislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral. Puffed up. Awful
>>23625435>sneaking a literal who between Joyce and Pynchon Kek
>>23625435Of these, I could make do with Gaddis alone. If I had to make a dessert island pick, I mean. All three are good
>>23625435Kek. Now this is what I call horrible taste. That genuinely sounds awful.
>>23625777>how to say you're a pleb without actually saying it
>>23625757>His desert island pick is an author with five novels Yikes
>>23626321That’s more novels than Joyce, and at least most of them are door stoppers. Selecting among those three, yeah, it’s easily Gaddis. Didn’t say anything about all of literature
