could be a poet, novelist, philosopher, essayist, whatever

Aнтoн Пaвлoвич Чeхoв

Woolf

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>>9122733
This absolute madman

>who is you are favorite writer

Pessoa

>>9122733
I are favorite Writer. Thank.

Celan
Cummings
Rueffle
Hawkes
(((Bernard)))
Leibniz
Hegel
Wittgenstein
Katz

Cortázar

>>9122760
this desu

>>9122733
Julius Evolva and Henry David Thoreau. They shaped me as a man

>>9124384
do his stories get better after La Otra Orilla? I'm enjoying it so far but I thought it would be better.

>>9122760
Help me appreciate Woolf. I find her novels really boring, which is unusual for me, but I really want to like her.

>>9122812
>my father groan'd, my mother wept
>into the dangerous world I lept
God tier

>>9122733
Kundera

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Nietzsche has written the best books that will ever be written, period. I know you think that the idea of there being "best books" is ridiculous, but that's only because you are retards. And there are no best foods either, or best cars, or best climates, or cultures, or species, and everything is equal to everything else in existence: this is your philosophy, we know — but only when it suits you (because when it doesn't suit you there miraculously appear plenty of things that are superior to other things); and we know this too — we have figured it out all too well by now, so well that there are animals today that are more interesting to us than you.

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>>9124513
What is essential in art remains its perfection of existence, its production of perfection and plenitude; art is essentially affirmation, blessing, deification of existence -- What does a pessimistic art signify? Is it not a contradictio? -- Yes. -- Schopenhauer is wrong when he says that certain works of art serve pessimism. Tragedy does not teach "resignation" -- To represent terrible and questionable things is in itself an instinct for power and magnificence in an artist: he does not fear them -- There is no such thing as pessimistic art -- Art affirms. Job affirms. -- But Zola? But the Goncourts? Flaubert? -- The things they display are ugly: but that they display them comes from their pleasure in the ugly -- It's no good! If you think otherwise, you're deceiving yourselves.

>>9122733
Dostoevsky or Rowling

Harold Bloom

>>9122733
*whom

>>9124518
wut

>Rowling

>>9124573
>on ne peut penser et ecrire qu'assis [One cannot think and write except when seated] (G. Flaubert).
There I have caught you, nihilist! The sedentary life is the very sin against the Holy Spirit. Only thoughts reached by walking have value.

>>9122733
Kant

>>9122733
Say what you want but I always loved the way Tony Robbins thought and wrote.

Nabokov

I don't have one
Is that normal?

>>9124673
That's not the point of this thread, you dog fucking pedant. Just talk about someone(s) you like a lot.

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>>9124706
Please, no bully

>>9122733
James Joyce

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>>9122733

>>9122733
Thom Yorke
Neil Gaiman

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Seriously?

Murakami, because Hard-Boiled Wonderland & the End of the World

and Bruce Springsteen

>>9122733
My boy Henry David Thoreau

>>9122733
*your

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Bolaño.

>>9125095
this desu

he's so respected that people even go out of their way to type the 'ñ' properly

>>9125121
I have a spic keyboard.

>>9125131
reeeee

Schmidt or Dante

>>9122733
I can't compare

Salinger.

Charles Bukowski his works got me through highschool and early college

DFW and I'm being sincere about it

>>9124407
Not the same anon, and I'll admit I haven't read as much Cortàzar as I'd like, but his "Bestiario" is one of my favorite stories of all time.

His poetry is wonderful too. Nothing life-changing but definitely worth digging around for.

>>9124497
You make us look bad

>>9125383
wrong answer friendo

Hans Blumenberg. Anyone here knows him?

Bob Dylan

>>9124618
You're such a faggot

Hemingway

Leo Tolstoy.

>>9127042
this

>>9124944
Damn, dude had elven ears.

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>Mishima

Thanks /lit/

Hesse desu bb

Bought the glass bead game and haven't started it yet.

Demian and Siddhartha are both infinite to me.

>>9127042
It's spelled with two em.

>>9124380
leave this board and go back to pol

Hamsun desu

>>9122760
>>9124384
>>9124513
>>9124938
>>9125095
Also good contenders

>>9127042
shit taste

Murakami

>>9127579
I don't see anything /pol/ about that list at all.

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T. S. Eliot

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>>9126899

>>9128161
The brackets are a /pol/ meme

>>9127579
Go back to >>>/pol/

Melville. In all seriousness he is by far the greatest American author and up there with the greatest authors of all time. I honestly believe this.

>>9129531
That's Arthur Conan Doyle, bro.

>>9129422
He spoke in more voices and more earnestly than Dostoevsky.

Mishima, Hamsun, and Bely are my favorites at the moment