So I was trying to think of the top 5 novelists/short (NOT poets,

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2016-05-20 20:53:10 Post No. 8063703
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 20:53:10 Post No. 8063703 [Report]

So I was trying to think of the top 5 novelists/short (NOT poets, playwrights or philosophers) story writers in each of these categories: French, English, German, Russian and Rest of Europe. I wanted to see how each 'team' would stack. Here's what what I got.

French
>Marcel Proust
>Louis-Ferdinand Celine
>Samuel Beckett
>Gustave Flaubert
>Anatole France

English
>James Joyce
>Herman Melville
>Virginia Woolf
>E.M. Forester
>Vladamir Nabokov

German
>Franz Kafka
>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>Thomas Bernhard
>Robert Walser
>Ernst Junger

Russian
>Nikolai Gogol
>Mikhail Bulgakov
>Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>Leo Tolstoy
>Vasily Grossman

Rest of Europe
>Cervantes
>Italo Svevo
>Jorge Luis Borges
>Witold Gombrowicz
>Knut Hamsun

I like my French team over pretty much anyone else, although the Russian and Europe team would pose a threat... Let's see yours.

Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:18:35 Post No.8063784
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:18:35 Post No.8063784 [Report]

Borges in Europe, really?

Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:21:24 Post No.8063798
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:21:24 Post No.8063798 [Report]

>>8063703
>Anatole France
dans mon pays, cet homme, il n'est rien.

Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:21:53 Post No.8063804
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:21:53 Post No.8063804 [Report]

>>8063703
English should be
>David Foster Wallace
>George R.R. Martin
>Stephen King
>George Orwell
>Thomas Pynchon

Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:22:55 Post No.8063810
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:22:55 Post No.8063810 [Report]

If feel like you just made a list of authors whose names you've heard a lot.

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>>8063703
>Rest of Europe
>>Jorge Luis Borges

Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:36:50 Post No.8063861
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:36:50 Post No.8063861 [Report]

>>8063798
Bah dans ton pays, tout ce qui intéresse les gens c'est françois hollande de toute façon

Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:54:00 Post No.8063920
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:54:00 Post No.8063920 [Report]

>>8063784
lol

Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:55:19 Post No.8063926
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 21:55:19 Post No.8063926 [Report]

>>8063703
>Jünger
Come on, there's tons of better ones.
Props for Bernhard though.
And Kafka is probably just on that list because he's so popular on /lit/.
Try E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Mann, Günter Grass (though I really hate him and don't get the hype around him), Max Frisch, Heinrich Böll, Hermann Hesse and maybe even Robert Musil.

Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:59:25 Post No.8064305
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Anonymous 2016-05-20 23:59:25 Post No.8064305 [Report]

>>8063703
>James Joyce
>english

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:07:29 Post No.8064335
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:07:29 Post No.8064335 [Report]

>>8063703
>>8063926
Don't forget about Thomas Mann...

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:09:08 Post No.8064343
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:09:08 Post No.8064343 [Report]

>Herman Melville
>Vladimir Nabokov
>English

Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:11:48 Post No.8064349
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 00:11:48 Post No.8064349 [Report]

>>8063810
Same.

Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:29:14 Post No.8064575
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:29:14 Post No.8064575 [Report]

>>8064343
Nabokov was english speaking, so was melville....

Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:31:53 Post No.8064583
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>>8063784
sorry m8 i meant rest of world

Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:44:51 Post No.8064630
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:44:51 Post No.8064630 [Report]

>James Joyce, English

So you're doing this by language and not by nationality I'm guessing?

Odd

Anonymous 2016-05-21 10:22:15 Post No.8065636
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 10:22:15 Post No.8065636 [Report]

>>8064575
I guess James Joyce wasn't, then.

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