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So /lit/, is EVERY modern writer a hack? Are there any writers releasing work today that you believe to be on par with the the titans of written literature?

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>>10429616
Knausgaard.

>> No.10429633

>>10429616
Me, except I haven't been published yet

>> No.10429688

>>10429616
>So /lit/, is EVERY modern writer a hack?

Every *contemporary* writer, yes.

>Are there any writers releasing work today that you believe to be on par with the the titans of written literature?

No.

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>>10429633
>Me, except I haven't been published yet

>> No.10429943

>>10429616
Yes, literature is a dead medium in this day and age. I exclusively read manga these days with an occasional graphic novel thrown in. There's a lot of innovation going on in that industry and the way they incorporate the classic Greek archetypes and storytelling structures is truly sublime. The beautiful artwork coupled with the tightly packaged literary prose make modern manga seriously compelling. It really is the way stories should be told, quite evocative of Shakespeare's plays. As if someone wrote the plays and then decided to illustrate them. In comparison, contemporary literature is simply stuck in the mud. I have no doubt that the next Shakespeare will be a mangaka.

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*ahem*

>> No.10430456

Pychon

>> No.10430476

>>10429943
*tips fedora*

>> No.10430587

John Durham

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>>10429631
this

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>>10429616
Marlon James, Eugene Vodolazkin, Karl Knausgaard, Ishiguro, Mosfegh, Svetlana Alexeivich... I can really go on and on, just look in the archive for contemporary literature threads.

Asking this on /lit/ is problematic since 90% of the people here read what professors and /lit/ tell them too, and take memes seriously. Like OP for instance

>>10429688
>Every *contemporary* writer, yes.
t. has not read contemporary literature

>> No.10430811

>>10429631
>>10430595
>>10430806
t. middlebrow pseuds

>> No.10430824

>>10430811
are you the same guy that writes off every contemporary author except Vollman as a pseud? Because at this point I can guarantee "the middlebrow" guy will come into the thread, drop Gass and Vollman and the word middlebrow, and drop the mic not realizing everyone else thinks hes a fucking child and a coward that clings to his post-modern experimental prose as the only patrician way to express whatever..

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>>10429616
Oui.

>> No.10431028

Roberto Calasso

>> No.10431037

>>10431028
Hack
Try Claudio Magris

>> No.10431093

>>10429616

the majority of /lit/ read/collect books to reinforce their identity as well-read intellectuals

a work of contemporary literature hasnt had the time to:
a) have a consensus of 'what the book stands for' built around it.
b) be highly-regarded.
c) considered inaccessible to the mainstream reader

it therefore can't easily fit into the /lit/ identity, because few have read it, and the book has no cachet

this is literally why people follow charts & why everyone here has the same taste