name the best writers of the past fifty years

Plato

>>9341450
ohmer

I doubt most people here would know him, let alone have the intellectual magnitude to appreciate my reasoning for choosing him.

Sîn-lēqi-unninni.

>>9341465
wow thats imperssive

Walker Percy

>>9341450
gass, gaddis, roth

>>9341547
Do not, under any circumstances, reply to tripfags, ya got that?
>>9341551
>they're all american

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>>9341485
I dunno that bretty old

>>9341450
Zeth MgFarlane

>>9341450

what the actual fuck is that picture?

Thomas Bernhard
László Krasznahorkai
W.G. Sebald

>>9341450
Born in the last fifty years, or that has published something in the last fifty years?

>>9341908
published in the last fifty years

>>9341454
jej

>>9341890
correct

>>9342220
Sebald I can see, but Bernhard better than Gaddis? C'mon man. I like Bernhard too, but c'mon.

>>9341450
The guy that wrote StarShip Troopers.

George RR Martin. JK Rowling. John Green.

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>>9342443
If you say so, my man

>>9341450
Beckett and Borges. The only true.

>>9341890
Ultimate pleb question, where do you hear of writers like these? Just looked them up and they look interesting but I feel like I never would have come across them were it not for this thread or a similar one.

>>9343117
these three writers are pretty established, pleb-anon.

and all worth reading, I was going to say especially Sebald, but no, definitely all three.

>>9343136
Thanks, I plan to. Is it a bad idea to watch Satantango before reading it?

>>9342443
fuck yea my dude. finally someone with real taste

Robert Anton Wilson.

hilda hilst. raymond federman.

>>9342292
Don't get me wrong, Gaddis is one of my favorite writers. But his best work is from 1955, and J R isn't too far from the cutoff range either. Consequently he wasn't first to come to mind for "last 50 years"

>>9343117
if you're just starting to get into contemporary lit, you'll want to take note of publishers like New Directions and Dalkey Archive. those 3 writers are all essential and have been covered by a wealth of mainstream outlets (VICE even has a thing on bernhard)

>>9343166
the book and the film are masterpieces in their own right, i wouldn't say the order matters too much. i personally saw the film first. i should note that the tone of the book and the film are quite distinct (same goes for the other tarr adaptations), i find the books to be much more claustrophobic

>>9341450
Bob Dylan

>>9341450

David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon
Jonathan Franzen
Cormac McCarthy
Zadie Smith
Joyce Carol Oates
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Salman Rushdie
Toni Morrison
Gao Xingjian
Ma Jian
Haruki Murakami
Junot Diaz

Obviously /lit/ will hate all of the non-white, non-male authors I just listed, so I'll trigger /lit/ even more. I think the following genre/popular authors are going to be remembered as the best of their kind:

Stephen King
J.K. Rowling
George R.R. Martin
China Mieville

Also, I would be extremely surprised if anyone here could unironically name any poets from the last 50 years.

>>9341564
But the post you replied to was also a tripfag

>>9343268
>China Mieville
But he's so shit

Nabokov and it's not even close

>>9343862
>past 50 years

>>9343862
Nabokov was pathetic.

>>9343268
he first part of your post is a bretty solid list.

>>9343268
Haruki Murakami is a shitty YA author

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM
JONATHAN LETHEM
SALMAN RUSHDIE

>>9343268
Alice Oswald

>>9343952
Just finished two of her books - good stuff

Pynchon
Vila-Matas
Kraznahorkai
Antunes
Murname
Bernhard
Sebald
Marias
Roubaud
Uwe Johnson
Senges
Michon
Toussaint
Magri
Robbe-Grillet (he published Repetition in 2001)
McCarthy

>>9344792
Forgot Geoffrey Hill

>>9341450
David Eddings (and maybe leigh Eddings, by we'll never now)

Maurice Blanchot
Peter Handke

>>9344792
Vila-Matas
Marias
Bolaño
Chirbes
Delibes
Vargas Llosa
García Márquez
Fuentes
Cortázar
Aub
Marsé

Are non-Spanish language writers even trying?