ITT authors who are underrated by /lit/

>>8802986
lmao nice try Mr Franzen

>>8802986
Jane Austen
Philip Roth

>>8802986
he looks like the kind of pedantic shitnerd i'd bully in high school >:) his understanding of human relationships is probably creepy indie folk lyricist tier at best

Graham Greene
joseph mcelroy
mavis gallant

>>8802994
nah his characters are A+

>>8802989
Every fucking time with you kids. I don't get it.

Robert Ruark
Frank Herbert
Donald Trump

>>8803021
>Ruark
literally who

>Herbert
properly rated

>Trump
yes dear

>>8803050

>literally who
exactly

>Herbert
You're probably right

>Trump
A joke desu

>>8802986
eh

Zola

>>8802986
>Franzen
irredeemable trash

>>8802992
>Austen

A little underrated, not hugely. Just underread.

>Roth
Properly rated

>>8803000
>Greene
Underrated, but more just underread.

>Mcelroy
vastly overrated

>Gallant
Completely unread here. Not rated at all.

>>8803021
>Ruark
Who?

>Herbert
Properly rated.

>Trump
senpai...

>>8803116
See >>8803077

>>8803116
>mcelroy overrated
lmao

>>8802986
hes a shitty, incomplete dfw

vollmann
barth
coover
federman
younge

>>8803154
>vollman
overrated on this board
>barth
rated accurately

>>8803152
>incomplete
how so

>>8803236
weird every time I mentioned vollmann people here just he's so ugly they would never even attempt one of his books.

I would say underread

>>8802994
Why would you bully anybody, you peace of shit?

>>8804265
Not the same guy, but some people deserve to be bullied so that they can suffer the consequences of being detestable. Seems obvious.

>>8802986
Proust
Huysmans
Zweig

>>8802986

umberto eco

John Kennedy Toole.
Virginia Woolf.
Flannery O'Connor.
Haruki Murakami.

>>8804573
i never see anyone bash Woolf, but she's still underrated bc she's one of the best of all time. my sister is named after her

Fitzgerald

Tao Lin (at least for Eeeee Eee Eeee)

>>8804603
To be fair, most female authors get flak from meme posters and /pol/ visitors.

>>8802986
He's correctly rated by /lit/ actually. He's pretty medium.

>>8804631
well yeah i don't count those bc they never offer actual criticism. in fact most of them don't even say she's bad they just >women

>>8804556
>Proust
Underrated considering he's one of the GOATs of modernism but no one here wants to discuss him because >muh translations

>>8804645
I think you're right, it just frustrating that threads that attempt to discuss those authors are quickly overrun.

>>8804652
I'm always surprised how few people here can actually read non-English language literature - bookshelf threads rarely feature anything non-English it all either.