/lit/ - Literature

Hey OP-- British lit needs Orwell. I think 1984 is more important than Animal Farm. It's a work often read in high school but it's read around the world and words, phrases, allusions, and analogies are made from and to this book every day in common conversation. It's a major work. I'm sure some memelords will disagree.

>>8967861
You have to spend too much time on /lit/ to think Notes is a major-key work. It's amazing, and Dostoevsky at his best, and probably should be read, but if you want to compile the most important into a single chart it's negligible.

>>8967965
>eastern "literature"

>>8968986
Bolaño helps you understand Western literature? He's been published for around 20 years..? Garcia Marquez at the moment is more influential.

>>8970658
Wallace, Vollman, and McElroy are not torchbearers of American literature or influence. Pynchon 40 years ago, yes.

>>8971405 >>8972159
Good call on Chaucer and Goethe. You could bump of Mann, Grass, and Bulgakov.

>>8973031
Candide is one of the worst, least funny, and *tips* book I've ever read but it does have quite a bit of influence in the canon.

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