Greatest Dead Novelist

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 20 09:37:41 CDT 2006


It's worth asking the question.  Joyce, Proust, Musil,
and, of course, Cervantes hit it perhaps most
concentratedly.  Then you have, say, Austen, Melville,
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Conrad, Nabokov,
Pynchon, Garcia Marquez up through Balzac, Dickens,
James.  And there's something to be said for
consistency, longevity, even ...

--- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:

> Like Bach, or Mozart or Schubert? Naw, I think the
> rules for novelists are different....

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