/lit/ - Literature

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is post-1950? Durr.

JT Leroy (pseudonym for the female author, can't remember her real name) is cool. Her novel Sarah is about a transgendered child prostitute. The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things is related, but not as good.

Also, I really like Herta Muller. She's a German author who one the Nobel prize a few years ago. Her novel Traveling on One Leg is extremely brilliant, and often reads like a poem. Feminist themes. Highly recommend.

Also, another German author I really like is Elfriede Jelenick. She identifies as a "counterintuitive feminist," though her politics make perfect sense to me. Her play Clara S, based on Clara Schumann, wife of composer Robert Schumann and a composer herself. A book of hers called The Pianist was made into a film a few years back and it won Cannes. I haven't read it, but given the quality of the play I already mentioned, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's gotta be worthwhile.