Who has the least pretentious prose of all time?

Who has the least pretentious prose of all time?

I'm tempted to say Hemingway but how anti-pretentious it is makes it pretentious

Examples of pretentious prose:
Oscar Wilde
David Foster Wallace
John Green

>least pretentious
Gass
later Joyce
Nabokov's english works
McElroy
Gaddis
Arno Schmidt
Later Pynchon
>most pretentious
Hemingway
Fitzgerald
John Williams
McCarthy
Harper Lee
Tao Lin

Most pretentious:
Hegel
schopenhauer
TS Eliot
Byron
Rumi
The Buddha
Nietzche
Camus
That dude who wrote Ishmael

Least pretentious
Robert Anton Wilson
Shel silverstein
Cerventes
Victor Hugo
Bakuinin

The Wasteland has multiple languages within the same poem. Seems kind of pretentious to me, needlessly complicated that I have to know 4+ languages to read one poem.

it says most pretentious mate

also, it's The Waste Land

holy shit learn what pretentious means

Cervantes wrote DQ in the form of satirical pretense you absolute dullard

he didn't even spell Cervantes correctly...what do you expect

good post
go back to r/books

if by McCarthy you mean Cormac McCarthy, it's a shame you haven't read his books

>Who has the least pretentious prose of all time?
Maybe Hesse.

Dairy Queen?

found the pseud

fucking orwell

Agatha Christie

How come no one mentions Tolstoy?

Toss-up between Julius Caesar and E.H. Gombrich.

Lemony Snicket

I was just ranting on facebook about how their ice cream is insipid overpriced garbage

Fair.

Vonnegut?
Camus?

>dude wouldn't it be funny if I SWITCHED the categories haha epin!

I doubt you comprehended it without a guide.

His writing is super comfy so perhaps, I was also thinking John Williams would be applicable

How do you guys self-define the word pretentious?

"stuff I don't like"

I always liked Mark Twain's writing. It's so plain and nice.