The last major British novelist?

[JCamilo]

When you have discoursed about Broch, Mussil, Proust, Gombrowicz, Kafka, Beckett, Malaparte, France, Fuentes, Paz, Sartre, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Joyce, Rushdie, Rabelais, Fielding, Sterne, Césaire, Mann, Dostoevsky, García Márquez, Céline, Roth, Goytisolo, Depestre, Diderot and Aragon in these boards, with new insight into their work, I may believe you're better read than Kundera. Until then, I suggest your curb your anti-intellectualism. Although I enjoy your posts from time to time, your thoughts on literature mean nothing outside this forum. And even if Kundera only writes crap about literature, which I don't think he does, it's crap that is establishing a dialogue with millions of people reading him across the world. Who are you establishing a dialogue with? A bunch of anonymous people on a forum. Not exactly setting the world on fire, are you?

So show some respect and be more humble.

Sorry, but do I need to be Humble? Kundera is quite wrong, I do not need to be humble about it. His dialogue with thousands (cough, as Paulo Coelho does) means nothing. And do you really think, the only place I talk about literature is this board and that discussing a handfull of names (probally less names than I have discussed) and here would give streangth to my arguments?

I am quite humble, Kundera is allowed to discuss with me. He may use his powerfull dialogue to reach me. I am quite open to his explanations. And from where I am anti-intellectual?

As novel and verse... novel, romance, etc, can be in verse. The words are not set on stone, Orlando Furioso is often called a novel, Aurora Leigh too. All in verse. And in this sense, Dom Quixote does not make the distinction between prose and poetry, when they call them novelas.

Prose in literature definide as everyday talking is insane. Cicer himself once sent a letter to a friend and said to his friend not to find strange that he was not using his daily form of discuss, but something more simple. I would point, there is several forms of prose which are not the daily form of talking, even realistic romances would be ridiculous (nobody makes silence when you talk) and talking in verse would not be less or more ridicuous than talking like captain Ahab?

[Heteronym]

No, but writing about whaling in verse would certainly be ridiculous.

[Seasider]

Or albatrosses??

[Patrick_Bateman]

I have come to the realisation that I do not like you people.

[dfloyd]

How does a thread which asks about the last great British writer wind up referencing DeLilo, Roth, et al. It seems when people have nothing to contribute, they change the subject and ramble on.

For my two cents, the one or two which should be mentioned are John Fowles and William Golding, not J. R. Tolkein or Ian McEwen or any of the others mentioned. How American writers got involved, I don't know. Changing the subject to fit some limited knowledge you might have is what makes these threads boring.

[Patrick_Bateman]

How does a thread which asks about the last great British writer wind up referencing DeLilo, Roth, et al. It seems when people have nothing to contribute, they change the subject and ramble on.

For my two cents, the one or two which should be mentioned are John Fowles and William Golding, not J. R. Tolkein or Ian McEwen or any of the others mentioned. How American writers got involved, I don't know. Changing the subject to fit some limited knowledge you might have is what makes these threads boring.

+1

Well done friend