Fwd: Re: Re: Greatest Dead Novelist

[David Casseres]

I'll claim that to the modern reader, the Iliad and Odyssey read as
novels.  But you have a good point about the number of novels written,
if we're talking novelists rather than novels.

On 9/16/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Are we still talking novelists, or ...?  Having now
> seen Homer, Chaucer ... one thing is, Joyce wrote only
> three of 'em, Cervantes, what, just the one?
> Melville, Pynchon, Flaubert, not so many, either.
> Dostoevsky, Tolstoy.  Whereas Balzac, Dickens, James
> ...
>
> --- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Dare I say Homer? ...
>
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