What are the 10 most essential modernist novels lit?

Ulysses
A la recherche du temps
To the lighthouse
The man without qualities
The sound and the fury
Heart of darkness
Lolita
The waste land (not a novel though)
Maybe something by Kafka
Beckett's trilogy

Hunger by Knut Hamsun - aka the OG modernist novel

>>9013757
Mcelroy
Pynchon
Gass
Vollmann
Ishiguro
Joshua Cohen


there you go.

>>9013792
I won't disagree. Replace Eliot with Pessoa if you need another novel.

>>9013800
woops that's most essential modern novelists.

>>9013796
There are few novels I find legitimately upsetting to read, but this is one.

>>9013800
You don't know what modernist means.

>>9013792
Yes, forgot about hamsun and pessoa.
I'd take Eliot and Kafka out (since op asked for novels) and replace with hunger and the book of disquiet.

what's up with the afro

>>9013824
Keke

>>9013824
Irish are the nigs of Europe

>>9013792
>A la recherche du temps
>Lolita
Not modernism.

Modernist poetry >>>>>>>> modernist novels

Prove me wrong.

>>9013810
I read that shit wrong! I have dyslexia.

>>9013845
In search of lost time definitely is, Lolita is a bridge between modernism and post-modernism.

>>9013848
Ah, sorry. Carry on then.

Since there's no qtddtot I'll ask here at the risk of sounding stupid. Is Hemingway a modernist writer and where do I start with him?

>>9013883
Yes, the sun also rises

>>9013886
Thanks babe

Petersburg by Andrei Bely

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Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth

>>9013805
you're weird. it's fun to read and not upsetting at all. It's sad when he's REALLY hungry but hes obviously not just gonna fucking die so lol. I felt like i was literally him, and knew it was going to be okay in the end

>>9013757
All of Joyce's work is essential literature and essential basic education so by default they are essential modernist novels

>>9013824
>I'm smarter than you-core.
>Needlessly difficult texts because i'm patrician and you aren't.
>You think the book is boring , heh, nice try pal you obviously didn't "get" my book or appreciate its aesthetics.
>Unable to visualise the scenes in the book. That was done on purpose.