Fiction: Best Prose

[drogulus]

Saul Bellow

     Oh, yes.

[CD]

E.M. Forster

[Brian]

I hope I mentioned these names the first time this thread came up, but in case I didn't...

Vladimir Nabokov
David Foster Wallace
D.H. Lawrence
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Those are the guys whose prose makes me pound the table in jealousy. In DFW's case I did, indeed, literally pound a table and sigh in despair at how good the writing was (Broom of the System). Lawrence's Lady Chatterley, which I just finished, is occasionally preposterous and characters occasionally have outrageous dialogue, but I didn't care because the prose and his razor-sharp way of describing things just kept making me gasp with delight.