Who is the greatest living author? No memes please

John Barth

Muhammad

Donald J. Trump

In English?
Corncob

*vomits*

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Ari Behn

Me.

>>9124730
I need to preface my statement with the acknowledgement that the only living authors I have read are American aside from Krasznahorkai. With that said Don DeLillo has the most impressive oeurve and McCarthy has the best book. Gass probably is the most talented writer however. I wouldn't be surprised if a small area of academia and dedicated following put him up there with Proust, Kafka, Joyce, Faulkner etc...

icycalm

>>9124767
No, me.

>>9124730
Me, for my diary desu.

Someone not an Anglo who also doesn't write in English.

Idk, I don't read much contemporary fiction. I like Thomas Pynchon a lot though

Joseph McElroy

>>9124730
Adolf Hitler

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Ben Marcus LOL!

>>9124730
me

>>9124730
Beethoven

>>9124730
Gerald Murnane (maybe not THE, but he's my pick to add some variety to the suggestions)

He's basically Australia's answer to Borges, Calvino, and Sebald combined, yet he doesn't imitate either of them. His writing is its own animal.

>>9124767
fuck off tao

my diary tobeh

Alberto Arbasino

>>9124855
>He's basically Australia's answer to Borges, Calvino, and Sebald combined, yet he doesn't imitate either of them. His writing is its own animal.
How do you type this, reread what you typed, and post it without killing yourself? I know, being Australian, English is not your first language - but that is an embarrassing way to think.

>>9124897
how big is he memeing? I'm not strayan and have never heard of the guy

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>>9124897
>I know, being Australian, English is not your first language
cheeky

>>9124908
It's not his suggestion I have a problem with.