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08-30-2005, 08:39 PM
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Steinbeck hands down
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08-30-2005, 08:45 PM
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ernie hemingway [/ QUOTE ]
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#45
08-30-2005, 09:15 PM
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Hemingway. There is no comparison. Excluding the fact that all his novels are considered masterpieces, he did more to change the American novel than any other person. In American literature there is before Hemingway and after Hemingway.
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#47
08-30-2005, 09:18 PM
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Quote: Are we counting TS Eliot as American or British? British, I assume. If we are counting him as American, he wins... ...and it's not close. [/ QUOTE ] Despite being born in St. Louis, critics consider him both American and British. And he can't be considered the best author cause he was a poet and not an author in the generally held sense of the word.
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#48
08-30-2005, 09:32 PM
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First is certainly John Barth. Hemingway is second (though of more historical importance than Barth). Third I think is Don Delilo. I haven't read Faulkner or Henry Miller yet so I don't know about them. If we include immigrants then the winner would be Nabokov. [/ QUOTE ] I just can't get fully into Nabokov. His technical mastery is incredible, but his stuff has a certain artificial quality to it. Really liked Lolita and Glory , though. Tim O'Brien is a really strong contender for the last third of the 20th century, IMO.
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#50
08-30-2005, 09:36 PM
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[ QUOTE ] First is certainly John Barth. Hemingway is second (though of more historical importance than Barth). Third I think is Don Delilo. I haven't read Faulkner or Henry Miller yet so I don't know about them. If we include immigrants then the winner would be Nabokov. [/ QUOTE ] I just can't get fully into Nabokov. His technical mastery is incredible, but his stuff has a certain artificial quality to it. Really liked Lolita and Glory , though. [/ QUOTE ] It can also be very dry and cold. Wasn't he born in Russia and didn't he live there half his life? I don't think we can really call that American in terms of anything other than citizenship.
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