Now that he's gone, who is the best living writer?

It is Pynchon. He's the writer alive with the best resume.

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>>8577841
I beg to differ

me

>>8577841
DeLillo is superior

>>8577844
The fuck's wrong with you? This isn't even funny you genre-shit fucking retard pleb
Fuck off

>>8577853
He appeals to a certain type of reader, namely folks who like to look down their noses at certain aspects of mainstream modernity. But best? Hardly.

>>8577858
>Muh allusions! Allusions are the alpha and omega of literature! If an author doesn't jack off to his own erudition for 700 pages, it's genre trash!

FTFY

mccarthy and pynchon are at the top. maybe vollmann is close.

best underdog is michael cisco

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Based God

IDK but it was never Eco.

>>8577883
>mccarthy and pynchon
You could have said Roth and DeLillo as well to emulate Bloom even more.

It's Harold Bloom.

No love for Roth?
Rushdie?
McEwan?
Amis?
Gass?
Krasznahorkai?
Coetzee?
Koontz?

Houellebecq

>>8577870
>Allusions are the alpha and omega of literature!
kys

tao lin

McElroy tho

Roubaud

>all these americans

>>8578090
It's pretty obnoxious but you have to remember that this is an American website.

>>8577888
Uhhh, what?

Yeah it's Krasznahorkai. I don't know why /lit/ doesn't suck his dick more, he writes old school verse for modern times. Satantango is fucken beautiful.

>>8578105
And Seibo is possibly his magnum opus sooooooooooooooooooo

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>>8577894

>>8577844
came here to post this beautiful smiling head. legit, he's not perfect, but he's better than anyone else on the market.
>>8577870
>implying wolfe doesn't do this
lel

>>8578100
OP is implying that Eco was the best living author when he was alive, but he never was.

>>8578105
Will they give him the Nobel this year guys?

>>8578173
no. it's going to some estonian female you've never heard of

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>>8577830

Stephen king anyone?

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>>8577883

>best underdog is michael cisco

this guy imo.

>>8578210
>bald
Dropped. Thank God I was only one chapter in.

>>8578105
This, thank god I can read him in original, finally being from a backwater country actually payed off.

>>8578173
>implying the nobel goes to people who deserve it

>>8578226
haha yea fucking cueballs think they can write. what a joke

it's Roth you idiots

>>8578277
he's retired

>>8577858
The mark of true retardation is judging books based on perceived genre, instead of quality of the novel.

>>8577841
>Pynchon
Not even the worst writer. The very definition of average.

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>>8578231
>implying

>>8578417
yeah, no

I looked up this guy Kraszhanahourakami, and all his books are like 100 pages long. Where's his masterpiece? I would accept a book even 480 pages long, but there's nothing. He writes these femme little pamphlets.

>>8577853
lol fuck no

Regardless, Barth is the greatest living author

>>8580008
You didn't actually look him up.

>>8580026
Barth is probably the funniest living author, but I'm not sure he's THAT good.

>>8580026
Barth is some cloistered little autist writing mannered books that appeal only to himself.

>>8577844
This

Oe is the best.

>>8578417
>mieville
no, no, no.

>>8577841
first post best post.

>>8578152
We all know he was, it's a fact. We're talking about NOW.

>>8577895
so much anglophone

>>8580036
Yes, I did, as evidenced by the fact that I know he only writes dainty little books with no meat on them.

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chabon

It's Wolfe. Was before eco died too

>>8580315
No way. He fuckin rules.

>>8580474
That ain't true, though.

Has anyone here read Javier Marias? I see him mentioned often as one of the best living writers.

>>8580613
All right, then, so point me to his big novel.

>greatest living author
>posts italian dan brown

wew

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>>8577830
>Saying no to Pynchon

read more, junior. And it's not just one, it's several, I happen to be looking at the definitive list right now.

>>8577895
>Koonts

??????

>>8580756
more like borges and calvino's retarded kid

>>8580737
His novel most recently released in English is 400 pages long

>>8577853
get real

>>8580008
No one fall for this bait.

you're right pynchon isnt actually alive

>>8577895
>Koontz?

>reddit.

>>8577870
>erudition
oh, learnedness!

>INB4 Pynchon
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Not decapitated yet, boys