/lit/ - Literature

what books should be added/removed from this list /lit/?

I just finished IJ today and picked up Gravity’s Rainbow. I’ve also been reading some other works too, such as Kafka, American Psycho, The Corrections, and religious dogma

Accurate?

>Hysterical realism, also called recherché postmodernism,[1] is a term coined in 2000 by English critic James Wood to describe what he sees as a literary genre typified by a strong contrast between elaborately absurd prose, plotting, or characterization, on the one hand, and careful, detailed investigations of real, specific social phenomena on the other.

>Wood introduced the term in an essay on Zadie Smith's White Teeth, which appeared in the July 24, 2000 issue of The New Republic.[2] Wood uses the term pejoratively to denote the contemporary conception of the "big, ambitious novel" that pursues "vitality at all costs" and consequently "knows a thousand things but does not know a single human being."

>He decried the genre as an attempt to "turn fiction into social theory," and an attempt to tell readers "how the world works rather than how somebody felt about something." Wood points to Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon as the forefathers of the genre, which continues, Wood says, in writers like David Foster Wallace.

Well /lit/, did he make a good point?

the pic is just for fun, don't feel ashamed

>this year
Elric: The Stealer of Souls; Moorcock

>ever
Caim; Saramago.

>>18853315
You know it's true