Idc for the story although that would be a bonus, what book do you think is the most beautifully written?
>>24793968Scott Moncrieff's Proust
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>>24793968the golden bowl>>24793977kill yourself
>>24793968Moby-Dick
>>24793968I will shill Solenoid for its prose, though I can only vouch for the English translation.
>>24793968"Now,' said Bernard, 'let us explore. There is the white house lying among the trees. It lies down there ever so far beneath us. We shall sink like swimmers just touching the ground with the tips of their toes. We shall sink through the green air of the leaves, Susan. We sink as we run. The waves close over us, the beech leaves meet above our heads. There is the stable clock with its gilt hands shining. Those are the flats and heights of the roofs of the great house. There is the stable-boy clattering in the yard in rubber boots. That is Elvedon.'Now we have fallen through the tree-tops to the earth. The air no longer rolls its long, unhappy, purple waves over us. We touch earth; we tread ground."
Histoire des variations des Églises protestantes by Bossuet
>>24793968de Nerval: SylvieProust: In Search of Lost Time (especially the first two volumes)Yourcenar: Memoirs of Hadrian
>>24793968Good prose is inseparable from the content matter.
>>24794223False, but okay.
120 days in sodom
>>24793968Marius the Epicurean
>>24793968Anything Written by Nabokov. For a russian-born man he was a genius in english prose.
>>24794469Nabakov was a decrepit pedophile who (what a surprise) married a Jew
I am very fond of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast for its prose.
>>24793988>rambling, asinine garbage that folds in on itself and forgets where it was like some old bumptious windbagthe golden bowl is a travesty. james was an absolute master, but that work in particular is trash
>>24793968Why do people now use "prose" instead of "style"? Or better yet, just "writing"?It sounds so stupid. "I like this song. I really like the music."
>>24793968If Misato pleads guilty in that pic, how does she win the case in this pic?
>>24793968thomas carlyle is your friend
>>24794849...and wrote good prose
