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>> No.11521332

Plath is unoriginal and just outright boring in her prose. There are scores of authors that best in her both prose and capacity to suffer. Her prose is garbage.

It is a crying shame because she is actually a very interesting poet.

Charlotte Bronte does a great job allowing readers to see through the lens of a woman in Jane Eyre, for all the faults the book has. The Bell Jar is just some boring garbage about depressed people

>> No.11521335

>>11521332
I enjoyed her prose and how she could put her experience into language.

>> No.11521337

>>11521332
>There are scores of authors that best in her both prose and capacity to suffer.
name 20 of them

>> No.11521341

>>11521337
Google postwar Japanese authors and take the first 20

>> No.11521345

>>11521341
you made the claim, the burden is on you to provide the proof

>> No.11521352

>>11521337
Emily Dickinson

>> No.11521364
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>>11521345
idiot, what do you need it spoonfed to you

>> No.11521378

>>11521332
>just outright boring in her prose
You mean "and her prose is boring"

>through the lens of a woman
You mean "through the eyes of a woman"

>for all the faults the book has
You mean "for all the book's faults"

>> No.11521388

>>11521378
Can you be my editor? Like I can't pay you but just do this to every post, it helps me when write, and I'm thinking of going pro :)

>> No.11521393

>>11521388
And yes im serious. I find I can articulate thoughts well but when it comes down to grammar I have a harder time learning.

>> No.11521441

>>11521307
Family Happiness by Tolstoy is pretty great

>> No.11521692

>>11521332
I enjoyed The Bell Jar but I read it at a time when I had just started to take reading more seriously as an interest. Maybe you're right or maybe you're contrarian but I can't exactly agree or dispute until I've re-read it.

>> No.11521722

>>11521332
you're a fuckin idiot, Bell Jar was good. It's an honest account of depression and alienation, you don't know what you're talking about.
>>11521307
Dostoevsky - Poor Folk

>> No.11521749

After the Banquet is underrated.

>> No.11521762

My Antonia

>> No.11521778

>>11521722
poor folk is not written from a woman's perspective

>> No.11521783
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11521783

I'm ashamed to admit I haven't read too many women authors.

>> No.11521789

my diary desu~

>> No.11522265

>>11521332
Completely disagree, she can really put you in the mind of the character. You might have just expected something else.

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11522305

>>11521378
le elements of style faec XD

>> No.11522306

>>11521783
That book is very minor Lispector though. Pretty average, really :(

>> No.11523525

>>11521307
really love that passage in the bell jar about the fig tree

>> No.11523530

Mein Kamph

>> No.11523533

>>11521307
Plath is garbage and The Bell Jar is a mawkish romanticization of mental illness. Read Woolf if you're into great female protagonists.

>> No.11523693

Ulysses Episode 18 is the only thing you ever need to read to understand how women view he world

>> No.11523701

>>11523533
>Woolf
>Great characterization (male or female)
Eh.

>> No.11524203

>>11522306
Lispector at her worst, is leagues better than most