What languages have enough contemporary fiction to read that

>>9815555

Everyone's writing in every language all the time dude.

>>9815555
Depends on what you mean by "contemporary". If you're asking if the corpus of literature produced in the last ten years in any country is as good as the remaining ~2000 years of Western literature, I'm going to have to say no.

But obviously English has good contemporary literature, if only for the sheer volume of it and the fact that English has an actual literary tradition.

>>9815706
>English has an actual literary tradition.

t. chauvinist

>>9815555
>after you've read the classics?
fcking anglos baka.
Even if german people just stopped writting books after 1990 there would still be enough classics to sustain you for pretty much a lifetime
I don't know, but I'd guess for russian it's the same
and why would you even learn mandarin or japanese? c'mon

Italy, from the 50s until the present Italy has had some steadily excellent writing beyond the classics

>>9815555
>needs assurances
Pleb detected
You'll never finish reading the French classics and you'll never even get anywhere close to understanding one out of the 4 famous Chinese novels. The Dream of Red Chambers is an academic field of studies in its own right, just think about that. Not even Ulysses has that accolade as of yet.

>>9815555
The latter you mentioned are moot. Go for Spanish; start with Siglo de Oro, read selectively XVII-XIX and emerge with the Latinamerican masters of the XX. Your life and intellect will improve. There's no contemporary scene like the Spanish-speaking one.