who are the 4 greatest literary giants of all time

Pliggs, Pernananany, and schitt

the huge orson welles desu

>>9875123
Woolf, Faulkner, Borges, Baldwin

>mt. rushmore

gross

>>9875123
Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dante, Goethe. I prefer reading Milton or Dickens and English lit in general, but as far the definitive greats go I think that's it.

Would it be accurate to say that Toni Morrison is just as great as the likes of Dante or Goethe

zadie smith, toni morrison, jk rowling, thomas pynchon

>>9875156
Homer, family.

>>9875321
>Zadie Smith

blahhhhh

>>9875334
Yeah, THAT'S the one that should give you that reaction.

Bulgakov, Shakespeare, Williams, & Tolstoy

>>9875334
Jk Rowling is blah too, but at least people don't push her to be a literary genius

Zadie Smith on the other hand is talked about being Joyce's successor, when she is no where close

Stephen King, Kafka, Proust, Rowling

I only feel confident about saying Homer, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy.

What's up with the complete lack of Joyce?

Joyce, Pynchon, DFW, Shakespeare

malzberg, warhol, padgett, celine.

Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Conrad, Tolkien

Shakespeare Joyce Dante Tolstoy

>>9875123
Shakespeare
Joyce
Nabokov
Salinger

Pynchon
DFW
Joyce
Stirner

pynchon, borges, joyce, woolf

Lauren Southern
JK Rowling
Rupi Kaur
RL Stein

>>9875123
I don't read, but probably Dante, Homer, Tolstoy, and Shakespeare

>>9875151
>>9875156
>>9875607
>>9875755
>>9876300
>>9876326
>>9876327
Nu-kales detected

Homer Dante Milton Joyce

Hemingway, Dumas, Dickens, Balzac

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>>9875316

Thompson
Joyce
Woolfe
Kafka

the gregs

Beckett, Joyce, Shaw, Heaney

Ibsen, Strindberg, Snorri, Hamsun

Plato, Cervantes, Shakespear and Hirohiko Araki

>>9878733
Wait the guy who wrote Jojo's bizarre adventure?

>>9875123
Dostoevsky, Lovecraft,Goethe, Tolkien and asimov

>>9878017
this is good

Homer Montaigne Shakespeare Cervantes
Poet Essayist Playwright Novelist

>>9875142
Classic

Faulkner
Joyce
Pynchon
Mann

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>>9875123
Gilgamesh, Odysseus, Hamlet, Don Quixote

Joyce
Dante
Tolstoy
Dost

To /lit/ history
>Cicero, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Homer.
Being the most /lit/,
>Joyce, Goethe, Faulkner...
>And Tolkien

>>9875151
Unironically can someone explain to me why Borges is held in higher esteem than Calvino. Clearly Calvino depicts a more aestheticised version of what Borges is trying to write, but I've never felt anything of Borges's writing to be as emotionally gripping/captivating as some of the stuff written by Calvino. Is it just cause I've read multiple works but Calvino (I think invisible cities is my favourite of all time) and I've only read Ficciones by Borges?

>>9880243
>he can't read Borges in his mother tongue
Oh, poor you. Stick to those shitty translations.

>>9875123
>mt. Rushmore
https://youtu.be/4scQVmfJuQg?t=270

Asimov, Orwell, Pratchett, C.S. Lewis(in terms of approachable things which are still /lit/)

If I wanted to be cool, Shakespeare, Plato, Dante and Descartes

>Wallace
>Ellis
>Chabon
>Diaz

>>9880274
Please don't post this retard

>>9875123

my personal Mt. Rushmore:
*Dostoyevsky
*Verne
*Borges
*Lem

The question of the four greatest literary giants is a different discussion of course

Pleb list
Shakespeare, Cervantes, Homer, Virgil

>tfw to smart for English list
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Leskov, Chekhov.

Meme list
Borges, Nabokov, Joyce, Rowling

Homer
Shakespeare
Dante
Dostoevsky

Every other great writer is a derivative of one of them

the "weird" modern sense of humor owes everything to Kafka

>>9880671
Can I inquire why you think him a retard? I have rather enjoyed his show.

What would be the most patrician choice?

>>9882367
Shakespeare, Homer, Hegel and Heidegger

Shakespeare and Homer only
Nobody else is on that level

>>9875123
Here's the real list

Shakespeare, Joyce, Dante, Chaucer

>>9875123
Joyce, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Lermentov

Tolstoy
Shakespeare
Dante
Borges

Maybe swap out Kafka for Borges.Not my top 4 personal favorite authors, btw, just the "most important"

>unimpeachable-tier:
chaucer, shakespeare, cervantes, dostoyevsky.

>my favorite desu-tier
euripides, wordsworth, dostoyevsky, flann o'brien (or) joyce

>Goethe, Camões, Dante, Cervantes

Also, what is up with all the Woolf in this thread? She's great, one of my favorite writers, but she's nowhere near the big guys.

Homer
Shakespeare
Dante
Hitler

Cervantes, Unamuno, Borges, Bolaño.
Spic lit > alle

Dante
Homer
Aeschylus
Toni Morrison