Your favorite authors that are rarely mentioned in /lit/

I rarely see mention of Shakespeare. Maybe because he tra

>>7863617
David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon

>>7863636
He is my tralala, too - My ding ding dong.
>>7863617
Da: http://www.imdb.com/filmosearch?sort=num_votes&explore=title_type&role=nm0076767&ref_=nm_flmg_shw_4

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Mine is Bernhard: intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.

I'll go with Plutarque

PG Wodehouse
Saul Bellows
Twain

>Casares
>Chekhov
>Henry James

It's meme shit imho..
His books are all similar/the style is tiring

>>7863617

GK Chesterton

Alexander Pope
Laurence Sterne
William Blake

Graham Greene
Robert Graves

Everyone always talks shit about Camus but I actually like him

>>7863617
Patrick Süskind
Georg Büchner
Peter Singer
>>7863862
>liking that soccer-playing, French faggot

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Etgar Keret

Why do people like Bernhard?

I read The Loser and the "no paragraph stream of consciousness" thing got boring after like 20 pages.

>>7863948

>thing got boring after like 20 pages
>>>/out/
Apply yourself.

I'm often amazed how rarely Jacques Ellul, Norbert Elias or Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ex “The Little Prince” are mentioned considered how influential and important they are.

>>7863958
gr8 b8 m8 I r8 it 8/8 and all that shit

>>7863962
…what?

Fernando Vallejo.

Steve Erickson, Jim Shepard

>>7863975
Anything by Vallejo you'd recommend? I'm only familiar with one of his speeches on antinatalism.

Rafael Chirbes. He has written some of the best prose of this century.

Walter Moers

Richard Yates.

>>7863948
Gathering Evidence is almost 500 pages of it, and it's autobiographical and it's fucking amazing and exhilarating. I guess it's not for everyone.

>>7863825
I just read The Man Who Was Thursday.

Very underrated author, interesting philosphy, imagery and quirky sense of humor.

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Edward Stachura

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César Aira

I made a thread a few days back and got two replies I think.

>>7864117
is he even translated into eng/in print?

>>7863617
>>7863685
My niggas
Him and Beckett are my favorite two authors

>>7864120
I answered in the thread, I'm sure you used the same picture too.

dashiell hammett

>>7864130
I thought that he was, but I can't find anything. I know that Michel Deguy translated some poems of Stachura into French. It's really weird that no one tried to translate his works into English, they aren't difficult to translate I think. And he was a really brilliant writer/poet.

>>7864132
are you literally me? i've been leading the Bernhard bandwagon since I came to /lit/. And as for Beckett, his genius doesn't need my touting. Whenever I read him I'm filled with 2 contradictory feelings: I desperately want to write and I know that I will never have enough talent to do so.

Without a question my two favorite authors.

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Gregor Von Rezzori - a man torn between modernity and his patrician roots.

Pelevin

>>7863617
Sam Lipsyte
Tobias Wolff
John Cheever
Flannery O'Conner

John Hawkes

But most of /lit/ is probably too autistic to appreciate his style anyway.

R.A. Lafferty
G.K. Chesterton
Georges Bernanos

Orhan Pamuk

Iris Murdoch
Walker Percy

>>7863617
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Antón María del Valle-Inclán
Mario Vargas-Llosa
Gabriel García Márquez

>>7864352
that's funny because autistic and horrible are two words i'd use to describe his style and /lit/

André Gide
François Mauriac
John Donne
Pierre Corneille

Antal Szerb
Karel Capek
Miklos Banffy
Andrei Bely
Meryvyn Peak
Ferenc Karinthy

Salman Rushdie
Elena Ferrante
Toni Morrison
Andrea Barrett

>>7864959
GGM comes up all the time

Tao Lin
Mira Gonzolez

>>7865122
magyar detected. And Antal Szerb is shit, btw, the rest I haven't read yet.

>>7865202

Actually English but I just like Hungarian lit, Czech lit too.

>>7865219
Tszilósúkülakk czëszénὄmalú äk baba gulas sliwowitz.
>>7863888
>Georg Büchner
He didn't live to be much older than the average anon.
>>7863894
is all .co.il lit about how either you have to be your local counterpart to is ISIS or face that it's pointless and do an Kirilov?
>>7863954
This is no reply. If anything it shows that Bernhard fanboys are blowhards. Every ethnic blondebeest from germoney is fond of him, apparently. I, too, wanna know why.
>>7864090
>it's fucking amazing and exhilarating
Why?
>>7864117
>>7864120
>>7864150
>>7864334
>>7864913
>>7864940
>>7864952
>>7864959
>>7865106
>>7865122
>>7865126
quit dropping names, you autistic fuck. If you could read a page, at least, from each of these you might as well explain why you picked them out.

Russell Banks
Rainer Maria Rilke
Elizabeth Bishop

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Willem Elsschot
Very lively descriptions of people, greatest at making round characters out of caricatures

>>7864111

Literally my favorite book of all time. If you ever see someone recommending it, or him, its probably all me. No ever seems to talk about him here.

Witold Gombrowicz, desu

>>7865407
sorry for dropping names in the thread where the whole point was to post names

Hermann Broch, motherfuckers. Virgil's Death is the most patrish book out there.

>>7865407
>why?
brilliant contribution faggot

>>7865407
>Bernhard fanboys are blowhards. Every ethnic blondebeest from germoney is fond of him, apparently. I, too, wanna know why.
His ideas are interesting. Most of us like him because he is critical and accusatory. he's critical of pretty much everything, from the passivity and lack of artistic taste of the rich, to the hypocrisy of his own homeland, to bureaucracy and bureaucratic authors like Thomas Mann. His texts read like a miserable man's sub-conscience, he hates everything and he's miserable and we can relate to that.

>>7863786
PG Wodehouse is one of my favourite authors. Are you British? I find it hard to believe that an American would find him amusing.

>>7864352
Same. Too bad /lit/ can't recognize that flashy prose isn't the same thing as good prose.

>>7865642
this desu
he comfy if u h8 shit
lit should talk mo bout dat nig

>>7865653
I'm a rare American with a sense of humor

Hilaire Belloc and Hayek. The essential conservative philosophers of the 20th century.

None of you plebs mentioned Jose Saramango

>>7865773
a wicked sense of humor?

>>7866006
blindness is goat

also David Jones, P.Shelly, John Clare, Barthes, James Baldwin, Woolf

Thomas Wolfe

Thomas More

>>7865407
>explain why this writer is good so I can like him too
That's not how it works you fucking idiot

>>7864120
I read The Musical Brain a few months ago. Fun read. I think the story that stood out the most was "A Million Droplets".

William Maxwell

>>7864952
walker percy my nigga

>>7864913
chesterton is mentioned a decent amount, not enough tho

hes going thru that awkward phase where his writings are old enough that nobody alive remembers when they were hip, but they never reached the critical mass necessary where they are able to just snowball in the public consciousness

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George Saunders, the best living short story writer.

>>7865481
Chesterton is actually my favorite writer of all time because of Heretics and Orthodoxy.

I absolutely loved Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers, although it barely gets mentioned here. He focuses on the lives of three different men during three different times in Germany: he also writes very differently with every novel. I loved both Esch and Huguenau, and I think it should be among 20th century's best novels.

>>7864120

Read El Tilo

Comfy as fuck

>>7866326
of course is not. what about "the gospel according to Jesus Christ" ?

>>7863640
tbqhwy I don't remember the last tiem that Dave was discussed here, it's been only memes about him for a while, almos an ij

>>7863862
The stranger was great

Dan Brown

Kosztolanyi
>>7864913
>Bernanos
>>7866677
>Hermann Broch's Sleepwalkers
Fucking this too
Also, Léon Bloy

Not my favourute, but P. Auster is never mentioned.

Georges Bataille

Louis Althusser

>>7863617
Marlon James

>>7864220
I've only read The snows of yesteryear but that was amazing though

Myself

>>7867887
a brief history of seven killings gets mentioned quite a bit. i mean not as much as dfw, but i've seen it quite a few times

>>7863617

Stanislaw Lem

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky


>>7864236
>Viktor Pelevin
>>7865592
>Witold Gombrowicz
>>7866637
>George Saunders

Seconding these

>>7866666
quints of truth

Max Frisch

>reading Bernhard in English

I seriously hope no one does this

>>7868671
i'm gonna do it soon and you can't stop me

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>Zola
>Zero Results.

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>>7868800
I like Zola anon, but have gotten exactly 0 replies every time I start a thread on him

>>7868824
Everybody and their grandma has read Zola in France and Québec, but I guess he isn't very popular elsewhere.
L'Assomoir and La Bête Humaine are pretty good. I do think Zola's writing style is a bit unrefined, some parts feel a bit rushed, but I still enjoy reading him. He's a clever, pessimistic writer much like Maupassant and Flaubert.

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>>7868863
So what do you think is the reason for his lack of popularity outside of the French speaking world?

>>7863965
He's implying that they're not actually influential nor important. I have to disagree with him for Ellul, which I found interesting.

Norbert Elias, i don't know about. De Saint-Exupéry is a bad writer but has interesting insight. In my opinion.

>>7868874
Honestly, I have no idea. Could it be a lack of decent translations? French naturalism also has the undeserved reputation of being really dry and boring.
Maupassant, Huysmans, Artaud and many others don't get the recognition they deserve outside of the French speaking world. Only a handful of their works have been translated and made available.

>>7868874
Unawareness.

Unawareness of his brilliant life not only as a free writer but as a journalist playing a large role in the years of Napoleon III in France. His publication "J'accuse" is his tour-de-force. A work deeply anchored in French politic, and therefore though to translate: not literarily, but it's context.

That may explain the lack of knowledge on him in the english-speaking world.

>>7868874
do white people not feel cold?

>>7868901
If you're patrician, naturalism shouldn't be boring. It reads like Dostoevsky.

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Any french poet.

>>7868901
>Huysmans
Intraduisible, contrairement à Zola et Maupassant.

>>7869136
Pourquoi intraduisible?
J'ai lu à rebours, lecture facile et absolument traduisible.

>>7868910
those born and raised around cold environments build a greater tolerance

>>7869421
>J'ai lu à rebours, lecture facile
Je suis en désaccord. Il y a plusieurs néologismes, mots surannées ou volontairement obscurs, sans parler de la construction des phrases, plus poétique que moins (nombreuses allitérations pour ne donner qu'un exemple).

Et il y a ces leçons de français antique aussi... Bref, nous ne parlons pas de Saint-John Perse ici, roi de l'intraduisible, mais tout de même. Son style s'est à mon avis épuré pour le mieux avec sa trilogie de la conversion.

Evan Dara...

>>7868800
>>7868824
>>7868874
>they like the crétin des Pyrénées

>>7869497
Je voulais voir ta réponse, et je vois que "lecture facile" était un peu léger -- étant donné que je n'ai pas lu le livre. Merci de l'input, I'll look into it.

>>7869615
J'espère ne pas t'avoir effrayé inutilement. C'est lisible.

>>7869654
Non, non, au contraire. Tu as piqué mon intérêt. Même si en tant qu'anglophone la littérature française me demande plus de motivation. Ceci dit, j'ai l'intention d'explorer en détail le canon français.

I've only seen Julio Cortázar mentioned on here once in the last couple of months, and I enjoy him.

>>7869527
dude....dude

i just finished 'The Lost Scrapbook' and bought his two following novels. He should be more popular.

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This sex-, gambling-, and booze-addicted little bugger right here.

Patrick Rothfuss. I think his stories are immersive and engaging. He really resonated with me.

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>>7868863
Zola is most popular and most translated french author in ex Yugoslavia countries.

>>7863617
platonov

Frank Norris

thomas harris? or no since hes never been mentioned

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I really don't see much of Big Poppa here

>>7870679
i read part of germinal

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Issac Singer. The greatest Jewish American writer behind Bellow.

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I'm the only one who ever mentions Henry Green.

Loving in particular is one of the best English Novels I have ever read.

I don't see Ligotti posted on here very much

>>7863617
Marcel Schwob
Lucien Gracq
Jean - Philippe Toussaint
Haven't seen much Céline either lately.

Hamsun

Charles Bukowski
Ernest Hemingway

>>7864049
Are you 12? Do you understand that it is site for adults? Does your mother know what you do in internet?

>>7872947
>being so fucking mad
Calm down.

>>7870985
It's a shame since he's one of the best contemporary horror authors, and arguably the most /li/ of them

Alvaro Mutis
W.G. Sebald

Karl Ove Knausgård

Denis Johnson

>>7873261
My brother got me one of his books as a gift. I enjoyed it quite a bit but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was just reading short stories adapted from Tom Waits songs. Not necessarily a bad thing but I always had it in the back of my head.

>>7873261
i've really enjoyed train dreams and jesus' son recently.

Basically any non-American, really...

>>7863816
Just got a collection of short novels by Henry James; including the turn of the screw.
Pretty excited to finally get around and read him

>>7874164
Nobody cares. Why bring that up if you haven't read them yet? Nobody cares that you purchased the books you dumb cunt.

>>7866006
I love his historical stuff, Baltasar and Blimunda is one of my TOP10 books, The Elephant's Journey is great too.

>>7863958
Norbet Elias is my favourite sociologist.

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>>7864334
>>>7863617 (OP)
>Sam Lipsyte
>Tobias Wolff
>John Cheever
>Flannery O'Conner

>>7865407
>quit dropping names, you autistic fuck. If you could read a page, at least, from each of these you might as well explain why you picked them out.

They are all writers best known for their shorter works. The first three are among the types of writers who were/are regularly published in the New Yorker.

Ah, and how could I forget George Saunders. Very rare is the author who can get a collection of literary fiction onto the *real* NY Times Bestseller list.

>>7874541
be grateful he didn't take a picture of it and make a thread with: "Just bought this, thoughts?"

>>7874541
And the miserable cretin award goes to...

>>7868910
Of course they don't silly goose. White people are perfect because they were created by God not like black peple who come from monkeys.

>>7872971
>>7870923
I must say, Balzac is my biggest literary suprise this year. Pure genius. It helped that he had congenial Polish translator.

>>7872971
I am not made, I am genuinely concerned for this child safety.

>>7873210
I like you, you are my kind of person.

For a board all about novels, no one really talks about Rabelais despite being the king

All of my favourite women are hardly mentioned here by anyone other than me.

Edith Wharton is, in my opinion, the best American novelist of the early 20th century. If you are not moved by The Age of Innocence you aren't human - it is moving in both its plot and its degree of artistic merit. The same goes for most of her work, but especially The House of Mirth.

Cather could create actual living, breathing characters with wonderful prose and insight; she was the first author I read who could take a subject totally uninteresting to me and write a novel on it that held my attention to the end.

Woolf is, to me, the greatest prose stylist of all time.

Eliot is my favourite social critic of the 19th century, and Middlemarch is one of the greatest novels ever.

The Brontës are all great (Emily > Anne > Charlotte).

Some other authors I like (both sexes) rarely mentioned here are

Colette
Haruf
Malory
Welty

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my favourite /s
(its a joke cause he is actually mentioned a lot in /lit/) :PP

>>7865481
You're not alone, I love Chesterton too. The Man who was Thursday is in the running for my favorite book of all time, though I think Chesterton's Manalive might be even better.

>>7876725
Agreed that women authors don't get enough credit, The Waves is one of the most stylistically impressive and beautiful books I've read

>>7863617

David Foster Wallace

Samuel Beckett

Max Beerbohm.

>>7864983
>autistic and horrible
>his style
a ridiculous claim. kill yourself.
>/lit/
goes without saying
therefore because you said it, you should kill yourself