LISTING THE LUMINARIES.

>>9957358
>Naturally Shakespeare and the Bible are way in front
Stopped reading there

>>9957358
>but are many surprises I've encountered in my laborious endeavor, which has seen me scour libraries
Stopped reading there.

>>9957358
>I am an autistic bastard
Stopped reading there.

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>>9957369
Truth hurts does it? My listing process has been entirely objective. How can I help it if the Bard and Bible feature more frequently than other works?

>>9957384
Then fuck off and stop wasting my time.

>>9957374
Thanks for nothing.

>>9957364
What's wrong with a succinct summation of what this board is?

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>>9957394
Because you have most definetly seen only lists done by anglos, and you know anglos always push Shakespeare as the greatest thing ever. Shakespeare is amazing and all, but i don't think he's the absolut best in the literary canon.
But i'm not blaming the anglos. They are not the first language group to put their own writers above others. Take a look at a french list of the best 100 books from the last century and an english one and you'll see how vastly different they are.

>>9957420
Please don't insult my project and its thoroughness. I am all too familiar with the accustaions of "Anglocentric bias" all such lists elicit in readers. For that specific reason, I have gone through innumerable lists of Eastern literature - the great books as ranked by critics/teachers/writers from China, Japan, India, Africa, Middle East, Continental nations, Russia, South America, etc, etc. I've even noted down the writers listed on Chinese travel websites where they include writers among the other cultural accomplishments of their land. But Shakespeare still prevails. In Google-translating numerous pages, foreign sites still compare their own luminaries (Du Fu, Ferdowsi, Valmiki, etc.) to Shakespeare. It's as though they themselves are desperate to demonstrate that they can rival him.

>>9957443
accusations *

>>9957428
Thank you for devoting several seconds to broadcast your worthlessness in my estimation.

>>9957358
>okay, pay
Stopped reading there.
Not going to get me this time, Mr Shekkleberg

>>9957443
>n Google-translating numerous pages, foreign sites still compare their own luminaries (Du Fu, Ferdowsi, Valmiki, etc.) to Shakespeare.
Can you provide some source then? I seriously doubt all of them would refer so much to Shakespeare.
From my perspective as a spanish-speaker, i can tell you that i barely see Shakespeare being praised above any other foreign writer, unless it's specific to an own personal taste.

And i call bullshit on the Bible. If it's seriously objective, encompassing all world cultures, the Bible shouldn't be way up front as you say.

>>9957485
In going through Encyclopedias the Bible receives far more attention than any other work of literature, e.g. in Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia set, which I have complete. The Bible is also the cornerstone of most Western literature after Rome - even during Rome, with Tertullian, Origen, Augustine, etc. From Snorri Sturluson to Steinbeck the Bible's influence is indisputable and unparalleled.

Just typing "Los escritores más grandes" in Google you get a picture of Shakespeare, just after Cervantes, Marquez, Cortazar and Borges.

http://listas.20minutos.es/lista/22-grandes-escritores-literarios-321995/

http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/Grandes_escritores.htm

http://pijamasurf.com/2012/02/los-mejores-libros-y-los-mejores-autores-de-todos-los-tiempos-segun-125-escritores/

Just 3 Spanish-language sites that include Shakespeare, which can be found in 3 seconds.

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>>9957480

Since you fags are being retarded, Im going to use my singular influence on ops list.

Give Stephen King a mark for GOAT

>>9957358
>O
Stopped reading there.

>>9957541
>20minutos
Are you even trying

Also the last link is based on a survey between 125 american and british writers. It literally says so in the first sentence.

>>9957561
Just typed in Spanish in Google for example's sake. In my listing I used links from all over, from recommended reading at universities in Madrid, etc. to favorite books of South American writers.

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>>9957358
use pic related

>>9957553
THANK YOU.
At last someone gives me something. Stephen King has 92 marks against his name (93 now). James Joyce has 367 marks against his name, by the way. I've noticed he has quite a following on this board.

>>9957601
THANK YOU anon.
I shall categorize these titles accordingly.

>>9957601
Kek
That's as anglo-centric as it gets

>>9957629
>63 of the entries are non-english