Post lesser read books that are still /lit/tier

I can make two suggestions for occult literature which nonetheless are stellar exercises in poetic prose: Yeats's A Vision and Thomas Browne's Urn-Burial.

>>8484838
there have been a few threads like this before, actually. Some anon in one of them recommended Ferdydurke and Insatiability. And now that I've read them I have to agree -- both, despite being relatively unknown, are excellent.

>>8484838
Grendel by John gardener

Denis Johnson - Angels

One of the best novels ever. But might not be underground since I think DFW hyped it.

>>8484888
Was gonna rec T Browne

>>8484908
Excellent novel

>>8484838
lesser read books? Ulysses.

>>8484889
Both of those sound very good.

anyone here read any krzhizhanovsky? picked up memories of the future recently and looking forward to starting it

Zweig

>>8484838
I think the least-read books on this board are probably Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest.

>>8484968
i grabbed that same novel, and i'm pondering whether i should take a break from rabelais and read it as well. i'll probably wait though. i have so much on backlog.

>>8484998
Hows Rabelais? What translation are you reading?

I almost never see Didion posted about on this board. Read Slouching Towards Bethlehem a few weeks ago and it was pretty good desu

Who is that contemporary American author that writes dense experimental novels under a pseudonym? Assumed to be male.

>>8484838
The Horse's Mouth
Joyce Cary

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Christopher Morley's familiar essays are the comfiest thing this side of Chesterton

I've only seen it mentioned on here once but Call It Sleep by Henry Roth is an amazing work.

>>8485020
Thomas Pynchon

Denton Welch never gets a mention so here it is

Read some Danilo Kis you pleb motherfuckers

>>8485068
Got damn, i wish i could find a copy of A Tomb For Boris Davidovich

>>8485020
That memer Roberto Pinchas?

>>8485016
Definitely continue reading Didion. Miami is one of a handful of books I can safely say are my favourites.

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>I'm a writer
>"Excuse me for saying, boss, but you look it hahahahah

Oh God I love this book

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Ivanhoe is a comfy read.

>>8484919
Denis with one "n" is pretty well known in the MFA world, which is a lot bigger than /lit/. Still not mainstream, but I wouldn't call it underground.

>>8484888
if you're going occult add Merrill's book of Ephraim

>>8484838
John Berger's To the Wedding is pretty damn good, and seems relatively forgotten in the world at large.

MY DIARY HEHE IM SO FUNNY

I don't know if it's really neglected, but 'How German is It' by Walter Abish comes to mind.

I think that anyone who enjoyed Stoner would also enjoy A Single Man.

>>8484838

Any novel by kawabata, or most of Japanese literature really (except for Murakami)

>>8485298
stfu faggot

Miss Lonelyhearts is the book I most wish I had written. Super short read and also usually comes packed with another of West's novellas.

Everyone should read it.

>>8485478
>Miss Lonelyhearts is the book I most wish I had written.
Just started reading this last night, actually. It's so short I know I should have finished it, but my motivation was undercut by how crap the beginning is.

>>8485020
Vollman since his real identity is female

>>8484838
how is Lucky Jim?

Malcom Lowry's Under The Volcano.

I am reading it right now, but it feels great.

>>8485204
>one of the most popular works of Scottish literature
>lesser read

>>8485020
James Paterson.

>>8486520
Did you read the thread topic?

>>8485119
Overpriced on amazon, but I saw copies on abe for pretty cheap.

The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf

Not that unknown for germans but i haven't seen it mentioned once on this place and didn't see it mentioned anywhere else.

>Christa T. is a fictionalized character in Wolf’s novella The Quest for Christa T. but, as such, she is also the author's mirroring alter-self defiantly challenging and mourning her post-Hitler Germany, a place where the Stasi's Communism replaced Nazism, offering nothing but another oppressive tyranny of State vs. the individual. Living loudly and unashamedly in open rebellion, the character, Christa T. is presented as both an enigma and heroine against the political extremes and history of a divided, half-destroyed post-World War II Germany. The author stands as witness to this great shift in history, from Nazism to a Communist dictatorship – the world changing into a different place after “a bomb, a speech and a rifle shot” – and Wolf’s alter-self, the fictional Christa T., embodies the question: “...then where is the self?”

>>8486196
The satire is as pointed as it was back then but it is still pretty funny.

>>8484919
Angels was good, I liked Train Dreams and Jesus' Son more though.

>>8486196
excellent

I enjoyed the following:
Journey by Moonlight-Szerb
Metropole-Karinthy
War With the Newts-Capek
Petersburg-Andrei Bely

>>8484838
Why is Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh never included in the /lit/ canon?

>>8485020
Evan dara

>>8487908
Because we appreciate Hubert Selby Jr more.

>>8487941
>Joseph "Something Happened" Heller

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones never seems to be brought up, but is probably one of my favorite books. It's unbelievably funny, and searingly honest.

>>8487934
>we

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I wish there was more mexican literature translated. we have some really great writters and poets outside of the "canon" or the classics, many of them still active

>>8488655
>Not being fluent in 6+ languages in the year 2016

If you can't speak at least all of the romantic languages at this point you're done for.

>>8488655
Your English seems fairly decent. Translate them and leave an actual literary legacy, unlike the rest of /lit/.

>>8488814
>all of the romantic languages at this point you're done for.

Easier said than done when you don't speak any of them natively.

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>>8487930
He's not only unknown he's also mind-fuckingly good. He out-did IJ like 4 years before IJ was written (as far as being the best book of the 90s).

He may well be the best, most patrician, unknown novelist living today. you'd think hipsters would be all over him

>>8488814
>learning Romanian

>>8488921
would you say the lost scrapbook is his best? I found it better than Easy Chain and i didn't read Flee

>>8488941
lost scrapbook is best, easy chain is almost just as good but it isn't heartbreaking the way scrapbook/flee are. Flee is very very good but not great, except for a long section about a guy named Marcus

>>8488976
Are Dara's books harder than Pynchon and DFW

>>8484838
Zepplin comming down, by william lawson.

>>8488865
Actually that's not a bad idea, I'd be willing to do it but I'm not sure if I've got enough spare time to do so in a regular basis but I might as well try...
I used to work in translations anyway

>>8488814
lol more like programming languages

>>8486554
Is this good? Is West good in general? For some reason, I always thought she and Daphne du Maurier were the same person.

>>8485197
Based

>>8491665
no

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Also Henry Green's works.

>>8484838

> tfw you realize all your favorite books are memes

maybe pale fire?

>>8491839
Are you sure? I've been eyeing this, The Return of the Soldier and The Black Lamb and Gray Falcon at my local bookshop for years now but never pulled the trigger.

>>8491865
Real.
Nigga.
Book.

The Factory Series by Derek Raymond
Anything by Iain Sinclair
Robinson by Chris Petit
The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson
Light by Eva Figes
Berg by Ann Quin
Journey Through a Small Planet by Emanuel Litvinoff

British writers are most often overlooked

>>8492561
Oh, and Jonathan Meades. If you think Will Self isn't erudite enough, Meades will blow you away.

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anyone read this?

Petrarch and Most the Italian humanists. Theyre almost all forgotten aside from scholars studying them still but I think it's Harvard and Italia press who does a great job in keeping the Italian writing alive.

1500s-1600s largely is a forgotten era now for the Italian lit scene aside from Dante and a few others. I would think anyone a patrician for reading some of those books.

>>8484838
decked by robert walt

>>8492680
dante was born in the 1200's

martin amis should be beloved by /lit/, hes a narcissistic misogynist stylist, sometime borderline racist.

>>8487941
Fuck off, orpheus.

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>>8492605

>Dystopian fiction