>be English major
>professor asks me what my favorite classics are
>all my favorite classics are French, Russian, or Chinese
>yes, but what about English language classics?
>do you have any favorite works from any of the classes you've taken?
What do?
Tell him you prefer the lesser works of Frenchmen.
I've slowly grown to realise this myself, English language authors outside of poetry and non-fiction tend to be tedious
read the meme trilogy you twit
authors outside of poetry and non-fiction tend to be tedious in general.
I disagree. I can breeze through a novel by a frenchman or a south american and have a blast, then come to the stilted jarring manner of english language writers, who seem to be preoccupied with ideas rather than elegance. The literati have this obsession with "wit" which really dries out our literate tradition and gives us awful modernist shit like pynchon.
>Shakespeare
Where have you been, son? C'mon, man.
Case in point, Mark Danielewski. But I can appreciate a writer like him for his concepts and say, Murakami, for elegance and economy of language equally, just for different reasons.
Just say Conan Doyal and get past your professors tedious questions.
danielewski is a literal meme though, nobody outside of the internet takes him seriously. id be embarassed to admit ive read him in public.