Melville, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Stendhal, Flaubert, Twain, Goncharov, Balzac, Turgenev, Fontane and more... Was the 19th century the Golden Age of the novel?

>>24545941 (OP)
No, we're living in the Golden Age of the novel. More novels have been published in the last 25 years than the preceding 500 combined.

absofuckinlutely.

>>24545949
Name one that is good

>>24545949
Quantity doesn't imply quality.

>>24545941 (OP)
The novel is itself the dark age of literature.
Besides, the bookends of the 19th century were better than the—mid.

>>24545969
It's the pinnacle of literature.

>>24545969
Hating on novels and fiction in general is most Reddit thing ever.

>>24545949
Do you know what "Golden Age" means, you fucking retard?

>>24545941 (OP)
Henry James (late), Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Thomas Mann, Alfred Döblin, Hermann Broch, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, William Gaddis, William Gass, Corncob McCarthy
20th century mogs. Although admittedly Melville alone is almost enough to lean to the 19th century.

>>24545958
Lucy by the Sea

>>24546012
The reality of the situation is that the moderns only made their great work in response to the classics of the previous century.
Someone like Swinburne and to exist for Pound to come about, it's no use taking sides when there can't be one without the other.