Who are some great writers you have never seen mentioned on /lit/?

>>8723484
Leonid Andreyev and Nescio, never see them mentioned

Gogol, Tišma

>>8723484
Büchner.
I gave up on my diary when I read Lenz desu.

Witkacy.
Probably lack of good translations.
Bruno Schulz.

>>8723484
Heinrich Bol

Donna Tartt

Muriel Spark

Gore Vidal

Robert Musil

J. Rodolfo Wilcock
Giorgio Manganelli (especially)
Hakim Bey
Joan Didion
Carlo Ginzburg
Resa Negarestani (seen a grand total of five threads about Cyclonopedia and I starter three of the)

>>8724204
Gogol gets a few threads every week or so, I seem to recall

>>8723484
Koestler

Can't say I've ever seen a thread about Donald Barthelme but then I'm not yet convinced he deserves to be called great.

We never get any Petrarch or Boccaccio here

>>8724552
>Hakim Bey
The temporary autonomous zone is the shittest anarchist idea, and hes an actual pedo. Fuck Hakim Bey.

>>8724641
But it's not though, it offers an jnteresting way to try and relate with others or how to organize activity in your local area I don't even think of defending his pedophilia, fuck that shit.

Nathanael West

>>8724652
I read Day of the Locust about a year ago after seeing his name pop up here a several times, always with very high praise. Maybe I just built it up in my head, but it didn't live up to the hype for me. I did enjoy it, thought it was quite good, just not as excellent as I was expecting. Still easily good enough for me to read more of him, although I haven't gotten around to it yet. What else of his you would recommend?

desu my diary desu

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich gets mentioned every now and then, and, really infrequently, so does Gulag Archipelago, but Solzhenitsyn should be mentioned more in my opinion. I have never once seen Cancer Ward mentioned aside from my own posts, and it's easily one of the greatest 20th century books I've read.

>>8724630

Thank you for giving my life purpose anon. I will now devote my life to showing the world why Barthelme is great. He and Fielding Dawson were two of the most innovative short story writers of the twentieth.

>>8724497
Its Böll you Springer-Verlag-cuck

>>8724667
He died when waslike 13 so there isn't much, but I liked Miss Lonelyhearts even better than the Day of the Locust

>>8724531
Lincoln is fantastic.

>>8724700
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/College%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/EMS/Readings/139.105/Additional/The%20Balloon%20-%20Donald%20Barthelme.pdf
Word

>>8723484
Flaubert rarely gets mentioned.
Usually a few mentions of Camus, Celine, Sartre or DeBeuavior are about it for French lit.
Even Stendahl and Balzac seem to get more love than Flaubert around here.

>>8724700
You're welcome, bro. And good luck. I'll take some convincing. I'd be the first to say that Barthelme is worth reading, and that 1/4 of the time he can be reliably compelling. There are just too many tiresome pieces in his oeuvre for me to call him great.

>>8724758
The Balloon is masterful, no dispute here.

>>8724849
>1/4 of the time he can be reliably compelling
Let me try that again. He can be relied on to be compelling about 1/4 of the time.

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George Bernanos

>>8724822
>Il voyagea.
>Il connut la mélancolie des paquebots, les froids réveils sous la tente, l'étourdissement des paysages et des ruines, l'amertume des sympathies interrompues.
>Il revint.
>Il fréquenta le monde, et il eut d’autres amours, encore. Mais le souvenir continuel du premier les lui rendait insipides ; et puis la véhémence du désir, la fleur même de la sensation était perdue.

>>8724822
Flaubert and maupassant are really the true victims of criminal overlooking on /lit/.

but their God is Joyce so I guess its to be expected.

John Green.

>>8724993
>doesnt hear enough about The Third Man

>>8725113
I don't. He's a good author, and pretty cute.

D.H. Lawrence should be talked about more.

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>>8723484

García Márquez. Sure, everybody mentiosn 100 years, but aside from that i don´t see discussion on him or his other works.
Also, i don´t see a lot of Chekhov around here.

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>>8723484
This guy would be extremely popular here if more people read his books

>>8724294
Came here to post this. Leonce & Lena is one of my favourite plays of all time.

Goncharov

>>8723484
Jeffrey Archer

Harry Mulisch, W. F. Hermans, Ferdinand Bordewijk, Nescio, Joost van Vondel.

>>8723484
W. Somerset Maugham
Dude mastered the short story and really understood life at a deep level

Myself

>>8725138
he was an awful writer desu

John Green
Hanya Yanagihara
Stephen Chbosky

>>8724822
/lit/ is also obsessed with that gremlin Houellebecq

>>8725960
kek

Balzac doesn't get mentioned enough. Never seen a single person mention any of the Persian poets, classical or modernist.

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Genet is criminally underrated. I've seen 3 threads about him on the past 4 months, 2 of them started by me.

>>8724667
Day of the Locust is overrated, written during his Hollywood screenwriter days. His early works: The Dream Life of Balso Snell and A Cool Million are a notable mention. But you want to read Miss Lonelyhearts, not only one of the funniest short reads but extremely dark and upliftingly depressing.

>>8725891
He's a complete hack. His poetry is juvenile, his rhetoric clunky and not convincing.

>>8724112

Nescio is a staple in Dutch threads, not part of the big 4 but cool enough, we just don't have many Dutch threads.

>>8725964

>MUH Dutch canon.

Needs more Couperus.

Rebreanu(i am aware only of a french translation though). Also Eminescu, Cartarescu, Ionesco, Becket, Visniec. Inb4 retarded romanian posting.

>>8724492
Gombrowicz is even better. Ferdydurke seems like exactly type of book /lit/ should care about

Steven Millhauser
George F. Kennan
Zbigniew Brzezinski

French Classicists. Don't see much Racine or Corneille on here.

I am the only person I've seen post about Thomas De Quincey.

>>8723484
Daniil Kharms, that man had a great sense of humour. Something on a par with Monty Python, although this may be a rough comparison.

>>8724630
I agree. Barthelme gets exactly the amount of recognition he deserves.

>>8727129
/lit/ used to have daily Kharms-threads at one point, with some Iranian (I think?) guy desperately trying to get a hold of Kharms' book.

I think he's on a few charts every now and then, but I don't see Andrei Bely often. One of the best Russian authors

Rowling K, J.

Marosa Di Giorgio
Manuel Maples Arce
Álvaro Mutis
Alfonso Reyes
César Vallejo
José Lezama Lima
Severo Sarduy
Daniel Sada


Laszlo Krasnahorkai and Georges Perec I've seen talked about a bit but not nearly as much as they should be, especially considering lit's preferences

I don't know if I've seen anyone mention Sasha Sokolov either.

>>8724294
yeah Danton's Tod was a surprisingly brilliant read when I was finishing my Abitur. He was so radical and modern in his use of language and deconstruction of historic tropes, it's astounding.

>>8727129
he was a meme here several years back, search the archives for Iranbro posts. some anons actually ended up reading him, but that wave of /lit/izens is all gone now, though.

W. G. Sebald
Jacques Rancière
Walter Benjamin

>>8724679
Literally reading it now. What am I going to think of it?

Poets mostly. Donne particularly.

>>8723484
Not Ayn Rand

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Paul Mariani, one of the best poets currently active

Rene Daumal
Antonin Artaud
Curzio Malaparte
Fyodor Sologub
Vsevold Garshin
Ismail Kadare
Marcel Schwob
Roland Topor
Pierre Klossowski
Albert Caraco

James Krüss wrote about the ultimate deal with devil

Lemony Snicket.

H.G. Wells

>>8724667
Miss Lonelyhearts is one of my favorite novellas, def worth a read

Anna Kavan

probably for the best tho.

>>8723484
c.s. forester

Lorca

>>8723484
Bruce Wagner
Dead Stars is a masterpiece

>>8723484
Ferdowsi.

>>8725972
good choice anon
he was a master of satire too

Ramon del Valle Inclan

Pretty much the Mexican Joyce, desu.
Picked Tyrant Banderas at a bookstore in Minneapolis and it blew my mind.
He's largely unread in the English speaking world; a majority of his works have yet to be translated.

Frank Norris

>>8729587
Are there any bookstores in Minneapolis you particularly like? I'm nearby, but I only ever buy used books or buy through Amazon.

Jaroslav Hasek
Bohumil Hrabal

Borges
Marx

Sigrid Undset

>>8729656
People talk about Svejk all the time.

Robert Walser

>>8724860
yet it's because his writing sucks ass

Dan Brown

>>8724513
Just read Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, it was dope.

>>8724630
>Donald Barthelme
He deserves much more respect than he gets, both here and elsewhere

Richard Brautigan doesn't get discussed enough here. I also rarely see Thomas Bernhard

>>8725964
> no Reve
pls reconsider

>>8728476
I thought I was the only one.

His works were hardly anything like a normal YA/Children's book, and I still struggle to find something similar in normal, adult literature.

>Those themes
>Tons of references lost to children
>A lot of re-readability
>Plotted a pretty cohesive narrative over 13 books with hidden aspects and groups
>Pretty good prose, really
>A great aesthetic

I'd love for him to write something for adults, to see how far he can go. I still don't mind re-reading A Series of Unfortunate Events once in a while, though.

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Aimee Bender, Pat Cadigan, Halldor Laxness

Quentin S. Crisp. Justin Isis. Mark Samuels.

Al and James Purdy (two different writers but both very good)

>>8733725
The Naked Civil Servant was a really great autobiography, the movie looks good as well.
There was an interview of him done in 1970 before the book came out, and he was living as an absolute NEET, dust everywhere, barely left the apartment. He said "I just stopped cleaning one day, and after four years the dust didn't get any worse." Unfortunately it's been taken down from youtube.

Wolfgang Borchert i like his dhort stories

>>8733802
Wrong Quentin Crisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_S._Crisp?wprov=sfla1

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Juan Carlos Onetti

I made a thread about him a year ago and some spanish anon said I was deluded because all he heard about was Onetti (possibly from his winning the Cervantes). Haven't seen him mentioned here since. Faulknerian with a lyrical melancholic prose which offsets the misery and quiet suffering of his characters.

>>8729587
Valle-Inclan's Sonatas are also a favourite. Very much like Joyce's "The Dead" or even Proust in his more straightforward passages.

>>8727279
>Álvaro Mutis
>Alfonso Reyes
>César Vallejo
>José Lezama Lima
>Severo Sarduy
>Daniel Sada

All of these are highly recommended. Maqroll is modern-day Quixote to last us several lifetimes. Vision de Anahuac and La cena are particular highlights of Reyes' vast oeuvre. Vallejo's best volume is España, aparta de mí éste cáliz, about the Spanish civil war (Neruda's anecdotes concerning him and Huidobro are hilarious). Lezama Lima's poetry outdoes Reyes and Paradiso is a severely under-appreciated masterpiece. Seriously, Sábato gets mentioned more than Lima. Sarduy and Sada's outputs are fairly straightforward but worth a look.

Lastly, as this thread has made clear, the pre-20th C. classics are seriously lacking on /lit/'s reading list.

>>8723484
Jack London

It's not like his work is at a high level of complexity or anything - it's just solid, enjoyable, machismo-fueled light reading.

I read it often, at seven or eight, and I find myself returning to it every five years or so for a nostalgic adventure.

>>8726422
>criminally underrated
heh

margerite yourcenar
aristophanes, aeschylus, other miscellaneous greek dramatists/poets

>>8729566
real niggas read the Persians

Hafez, Sa'adi, Khatun, Nizami, Zakani, Khayyam

>>8735408
yourcenar's hadrian is commonly recommended. has she written anything as good?

>greek dramatists/poets
no, unless it's meander and the minor lyric poets.

>>8723484
A playwright not names William, Arthur or David

Henry Adams
William Burroughs
Dashiell Hammett

William T Vollmann

David Markson
Alexander Theroux

>>8726394
Modernist Persian poets to check out please?

>>8723484
It's rare that we get threads dedicated to specific poets in general, but I always get palpitations whenever I see Frank O'Hara's name listed here for any reason.

It'd also be nice to see a little more Calvino. He seems to fit right in their with the Pynchon/Marquez/Wallace cavalcade and yet his work is practically absent here.

Also really appreciating some of the other anons' suggestions. Yall have given me a lot to look into.

>>8723484
Prosper Merimee

>>8725972
I was gonna put him down. He is a great writer. And his view on life is beautiful sans his view on women.

Rachel Olan, Pierre Menard and Silas Flannery

>>8726422
Hey, senpai, I found Genet most because of your threads.
Actually I was reading an article and the name popped up, as I realized it was familiar I decided to check and then I realized he was mentioned sometime on /lit/.
So thank you

Delmore Schwartz
Ted Joans

>>8725138
>>8725975
Awful prose, great poetry

Irvine Welsh

>>8723484
Quevedo
Góngora
Espronceda
Bécquer
Lope de Vega
Valle-Inclán
Pío-Baroja
Blas de Otero

Me.

>>8738011
You're welcome.

Huysmans is also great and underrated.

>>8729587
Probably bait but he's not Mexican you bumbling fat faggot

If there was one thing the mods should do, it would be to facilitate more discussion on the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

>>8733625
Aimee Bender is way underrated. One of the few contemporary female writers I enjoy.

On the same topic, there's Amelia Gray, Ali Smith and A. S. Byatt - the last might get a little tiring with her general time period (although not for me) but I love her prose, and her plots take little, unexpected, but good turns.

>>8727116
la purgation des passions !