How comes there are no modern examples of prose stylists? Even acclaimed authors of literary fiction seem to have zero interest in styling their prose. Sally Rooney, for example, isn't meritted on her use of words but rather the narative and character she conveys with them. Fantasy writers are too busy clunkily detailing their worldbuilding to be too interested in the way their books are written. And even Waldun, despite being a literature enthusist and who aspires to be the next James Joyce, also shows no interest in styling his prose into anything of artistic, lyrical merit.
How comes prose stylism is dead? Why does every contemporary writer simply use prose as a means to autistically get across information and themes rather than utilising it as its own independent art form?
Is it the fault of TV and movies? Or is there something else?
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Good question.
John Banville
Isn't he a thriller writer? Not that that means he's a poor stylist, but still, there's a certain reputation they carry. He did write an introduction in the copy of Journey To the End of the Night I've read, but Jo Nesbo also wrote the introduction to the edition of Hunger I own so I just kind of assumed they didn't care using thriller writers, particuarly as most academics are in a rush to asscioate themselves with fascist sympathisers
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Have you read any contemporary writing other than Sally Rooney, fantasy or Waldun?
I try to, but nothing ever stands out and the ones who do tend to be purple as frick. Why, you got any recs or just trying to deflate my argument without contributing anything of worth?
While we are sticking with absolute basic b***h modern lit fic which anyone here should have a cursory knowledge of before starting these tedious threads and getting butthurt when their ignorance is called out, Hillary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes, Howard Jacobson, Graham Swift, Rachel Cusk, Irvine Welsh, Peter Carey, are all noted prose stylists
>Irvine Welsh
I asked for "contempory" prose stylists. Welsh's style hasn't changed since Trainspotting, moron. Same with McEwan and Doyle. Can't speak for anyone else you mentioned but it's clear you only have cursory knowledge and want to lord your le intellectual superiorty just because you read a bunch of boomers.
>Welsh's style hasn't changed since Trainspotting
Nothing about being a prose stylist requires your prose to change and the vast bulk don't change much over their career. Part of being a prose stylist is the unique and highly crafted style of their prose which is taken to such an extreme it identifies them as accurately as their fingerprints. You really are going all out on proving yourself moronic.
Interesting idea - have they been washed away by the monostylism of post-internet media?
Short of leaving this as an exercise for the reader, could you describe their styles from your perspective?
Stylists get little attention until long after they're dead. Also IQfy is so far out of touch with contemporary literature that it's not even funny. I may make a thread on it once I get some leads and figure out how to get Black folk to read.
>IQfy is so far out of touch with contemporary literature that it's not even funny. I may make a thread on it once I get some leads and figure out how to get Black folk to read.
Can't speak for the others, but I want to get through the classics first before I tackle the modern writers. Diving straight into postmodernists for example, before having read through the modernists first, would only leave me confused.
I am interested in tackling the likes of Krasznahorkai, Tokarczuk and Segald, but not before I go through Joyce and Pynchon. And since I'm a wagie with limited time it'll take me a long while before I get to contemporary literature.
It is the fault of your not know what a prose stylist is and reducing it to "prose i like the style of." The prose stylist are those authors who make every word count and serve a purpose beyond the sentence it is contained in essentially extending structure down into the prose. Joyce absolutely was a prose stylist, early works not so much but we get the beginnings of it in Portrait.
>It is the fault of your not know what a prose stylist is and reducing it to "prose i like the style of."
Not what I said, moron. Please point out how exactly I implied what you're implying, moron.
I did, saying Joyce was not a prose stylist.
Conn Iggulden and William Vollmann aren't... bad. One is much better than the other.
Postmodernism.
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does IQfy even fricking read
Oh nvm, apparently OP's definition of "contemporary" is "published this year." I have no interest in entertaining goldfish-brain zoomers