/lit/ - Literature

>>9141893
Avg age is about 21-22. So younger than that you tend to read genre fiction and whatever is forced on you by professors and teachers, and meme books here. Throw in the assholes who say "nothing good has been written in the last 40 years" and people internalize that and don't read it. Then there is a heavier by day population who rejects modernity as degenerate/feminist/degraded (clearly they havent read 19th century novels very deeply) who are too cowardly to read outside of their comfort zone.

All of the above tend to shout down people who read contemporary literature, and it leads to a bad vibe. I love reading new novels, but the one thing true in repeated criticisms is that due to Amazon, it is much easier to get tremendous shit into your hands, so you really have to vet works by sources that you trust, or look for patterns of recommendation.

No one EVER talks about Sebald here. Greatest contemporary writer.

>>7806463
I haven't read either. Translations should be available too, so I'd rather include Agnes.

>nobody has posted this yet

W. G. Sebald. Pic related and the Rings of Saturn were pretty fantastic and he just seemed to keep getting better. Had he not been killed I imagine he would have made a novel to surpass Austerlitz.

>>4837571

it's from 2001 but whatever

Sebald's Austerlitz was released in 2001.

Best book of the 21st century by far. Forget the Pynchon and Bolano and McCarthy.

In terms of poetry it's gotta be Anne Carson. Nox and The Beauty of the Husband are amazing.

This, this, a thousand times this.

read this

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