>mfw reading an average Tolstoy sentenceWhat other authors are like this? Proust and Nabokov come close, but not quite.
for me its delillo and henry james
>>25548500Milton, Donne, Melville, Conrad, Joyce, Pynchon, McCarthy
>>25548500David Jones, Lispector, Kierkegaard (in a slightly different sense), Shakespeare, various poets (Eliot), (huge power gap), McCarthy Wolfe Dosto Melville plenty of others in no particular order.
>>25548521*For me, if it isn't obvious. I can already imagine the seethe grouping Melville and Wolfe together will cause certain posters.
>>25548521>Kierkegaard (in a slightly different sense)Explain, please?
>>25548521stop trying to pass off your opinion as fact you buffoon
Denis Johnson has some of the best sentences in English prose. He wrote the novella Train Dreams is based on. His standout work is the short story collection Jesus Son.McCarthy has some absolutely monstrously good sentences as well. Read the opening to Suttree.
>>25548524Content moreso than prose but with the same effect and content is always part of prose anyway, OP wasn't talking about mere poetry. I reread the epilogue to Fear and Trembling just for the pleasure of it.>>25548525There's only opinion, fact is mere aggregation. Also yeah I misread the OP I thought it was asking for personal preferences.
>>25548538>There's only opinion, fact is mere aggregation. Also yeah I misread the OP I thought it was asking for personal preferences.well damn anon you are probably shitposting as well but just in case, it was a tongue in cheek reaction to your clarification >>25548523
>>25548500>like thisLike what? Authors that make you an old faggot with closed eyes? Idgi
>>25548568Try reading a book
>>25548570I'm at 14 this year or 5k pages which is on the very low side for my average reading pace annually. I'm asking you to communicate using words what you intend for me to think about Tolstoy, because you didn't do that and it's unclear what you like about him. Books that make you close your eyes?Mind you I'm being generous because all those authors did not write in English, so whatever you're praising is shared credit with the translator, which limits the value of recommendations I could give. Notwithstanding that they're all entry level authors.
>>25548577>Books that make you close your eyes?I don't give good faith responses to people being purposefully obtuse. If you are really so stupid to not understand what is meant by that then you're too stupid to waste my time on.
>>25548545Yeah I was playing up the sassyness, I figured you were joking >>25548577I've read 9001 pages of romantasy just this month so I win actually
Sorry bro your post got auto-filtered by 4chanx cause you're a faggot probably. I don't think you need to say stupid faggot shit to explain what you like about Tolstoy, I was looking more for words to describe what you like because I don't speak in gifs of homosexual actors dropping papers on the ground.
>>25548577Nabokov wrote (mostly) in English and Proust has a famously excellent Moncrieff translation.Tolstoy I am baffled by, as I didn't find his style particularly outstanding, but maybe OP speaks Russian and he feels different in the original.
>>25548586you sure think about faggots a lot, anon
Only pseuds are impressed by sentences
>>25548500Bakker.
>>25548643Let me guess... You care mostly about the plot?
>>25548500MelvilleConradJoyceFaulknerShakespeareWoolfBarnesBelyAnd innumerable poets, poetry is obviously the best at this, but OP specified authors.
>>25548503theyve written some of the dullest things ive read but i still want to check out others by them. what are their best?
>>25548500Fenimore Cooper.
>>25548825Tolstoy really is like that. Shit plot but good writing style.I read a tolstoy's book. It was about some whore who "cured" herself by becoming christian.
>a tolstoy's book
>>25548623>Proust has a famously excellent Moncrieff translationIs it actually excellent? Still better than the new Adam Watt translation?
>>25548500Huysmans.
>>25549227No
>>25549227Yes
>>25548577Are you autistic?
>>25548623>Tolstoy I am baffled by, as I didn't find his style particularly outstandingI'd guess it has more to do with craft and economy than style. Or maybe it's both?
>>25549167You didn't "read" it in any meaningful sense. You might have passed your eyes over the words, flipped the pages, and created the illusion of having read a book, but from that description it's painfully obvious that almost none of it actually made it into your head.
>>25548586You sound like a seething illiterate retard.
>>25548500>>mfw reading an average translator's interpretation of a Tolstoy sentenceYou're reading a translator's prose not Tolstoy's
Not to appropriate native American culture, but Jinny is my spirit animal
>>25550393How would you know it's a translation? Babbelfags are retarded.
>>25549302Clarity. Tolstoy simply communicates better than any other writer I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t matter that his prose isn’t as stylish. It’s direct and lucid in the purest sense, even in translation. No greater compliment could be given to a writer
Chateaubriand - Memoirs from Beyond the Grave
>>25548577>that make you close your eyes?Kek, snarky bastard.
https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Pastorales_de_Longus/Livre_premier
>>25548577So you consume without understanding? Sad.
>>25548538Kierkegaard haters are soulless automatons
>>25550538Correct. He's a marvel.
