What book had the most beautiful prose you've ever read?

What book had the most beautiful prose you've ever read?

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

The Waves to be honest

Mason & Dixon or Dubliners

The Dead has the greatest closing line in the history of literature and I'm willing to die on this hill.

>t. woman or librel

De-exist yourself immediately.

>tfw the attempt to make good prose is failed attempt at recapturing the beauty of music, the greatest "prose" is not even close to the most beautiful music, and music is the superior art form in every way, as literature is only an inferior form of music but tainted with pseudo-philosophical ideas

There isn't a song in the world that makes me feel the way the opening lines of Moby Dick makes me feel. B8 harder.

You need to both read more and listen to more music, you absolute pleb

I agree with what he's getting at. The Dead is very good, solid, but the play it gets on here is both funny and strange. What, did that worthless heeb Bloom say it was the best writing ever or something? Is that why so many here regurgitate the sentiment?

No, I posted it because it's a fucking beautiful piece of writing, you goober.

It's not in English, that's for sure

Lazy contrarianism killed Veeky Forums. I fucking hate what this board has become.

Moby Dick

Nah, you've been brainwashed by academia, you stupid bluepilled drone.

Try to think for yourself a while, and take the redpill

see

whale peniis

herman goering

The Iliad never gets old.

Julien Gracq: Au Chateau d'Argol

Borges and Whitman. Nah just Whitman.

Nah, JUST

I've only read The Opposing Shore myself in an English translation but the prose was still top-notch.

A tie between Ulysses and Oscar Wilde's works.

>tfw I can't read a book unless it has half decent prose
Sucks, tbqh.

god isn't great by hitchens
he's a hell of a writer

I love Mishima's prose of the Sea of Fertility. Is this autism?
>inb4 translation

>Whitman
>Prose