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KILL CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI AND RESUSCITATE JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

>> No.1771186
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KILL STEPHANIE MEYER AND ADD THREE DECADES TO RAY BRADBURY'S LIFE SPAN AND REJUVENATE HIS MIND AS IT WAS IN THE NINETEEN FORTIES.

>> No.1771189

But who will finish the Eragon series?

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KILL BIN LADEN AND REVIVE HITLER AND STALIN SO THEY CAN WRESTLE AT WRESTEMANIA TWENNY EIGHT

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>>1771189

>> No.1771195
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KILL GEORGE R. R. MARTIN AND RESUSCITATE MERVYN PEAKE.

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Salinger lived a good long life and allowed his work to mature.

Franz Kafka died young and never finished any of his novels, yet he is indisputably one of the most influential writers of all time.

Think about what masterpiece he could have produced had he been allowed to perfect his work.

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>>1771201
>Think about what masterpiece he could have produced had he been allowed to perfect his work.

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>>1771201

THAT IS TRUE.

BUT STILL, I WOULD RESUSCITATE JEROME DAVID SALINGER.

YOU COULD KILL SOMEONE ELSE FOR FRANZ KAFKA.

>> No.1771217

>>1771201
>mfw when Keats died at 25, Lermontov died at 26, Gogol died at 42, Puschkin at 38 and Kafka at 40

SO MANY MASTERPIECES

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KILL STEPHEN KING AND CURE PRATCHETT'S ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.

>> No.1771227

>>1771217

Kafka is more influential than all of those writers.

>> No.1771230

>>1771227
Only to angsty teenagers with no social life.

>> No.1771232

>>1771227
wat

Maybe in English-speaking countries. And even then, I wouldn't place him above Keats in importance. We're talking about importance, not how much you like the guy.

>> No.1771233

>>1771227

thanks for this post that totally has anything to do whatsoever with the premise of the thread

>> No.1771239

>>1771230

DUMB PERSON DETECTED.

>> No.1771240

>>1771232

You're an idiot.

Keats could have been an influential writer, had he only completed Hyperion-- but he died too young.

Wordsworth and Shelley were far more influential than Keats.

>> No.1771242

>>1771240
>Implying Keats and Yeats aren't on your side while Wilde is mine

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>>1771230

>influential
>how much I like the guy

I don't think you understand what that word means, hombre.

>>1771232

>kafka
>english speaking

coolstorybro

But seriously, literary historians typically place these five authors as being the most influential for their respective epoch's:

1. Dante Alighieri
2. William Shakespeare
3. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
4. Leo Tolstoy
5. Franz Kafka.