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19760054 No.19760054[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

The greatest novelists of the 20th century are Proust, Mann, Gadda, Musil, Broch, Rebatet, Joyce, and Powys. No, I will not be taking any questions.

>> No.19760059
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19760059

What's your favorite Mann?

>> No.19760078

>>19760054
>Proust, Mann, Gadda, Musil, Broch, Rebatet, Joyce, and Powys
4 are German-language writers.
2 are English-language writers.
2 are French-language writers.
1 is an Italian-language writer.
3, perhaps 4 are homosexual/bisexual.
1 is fascist.
1 is Jewish.
2 are married to Jews.

Just some interesting statistics.

>> No.19760084

>>19760078
1 is a homosexual pedophile with incestuous tendencies

>> No.19760088

>>19760084
So are 50% of novelists and poets.
What's your point?

>> No.19760097

>>19760088
>So are 50% of novelists and poets.
Not true. Not with those exact descriptions.

>> No.19761169

>>19760054
> Gadda
> Rebatet
> Powys

Here's a French anon who's been reading Nabe

>> No.19761172

>>19760054
Forgot Kafka and Lawrence

>> No.19761180

Is it worth learning german to read kafka and mann?
I'm interested in mann even though the last time I tried to read it I hated him

>> No.19761240

You forgot Melville

>> No.19761242

>>19761240
Melville was 19th century

>> No.19761507

>>19760054
>No Kafka, Woolf and Beckett

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>>19760054
Danilo Kiš, too, deserves a mention, but most of /lit/ will never read him because they're so rooted in Anglo thought.

>> No.19762992

>>19760059
budenbrooks is kino

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>>19762992
Hanno's chapters were some of the most Literally Me things I've ever read.

>> No.19763888

>>19760054
>No Celine
>No Garcia Marquez
>No Nabokov
>No Faulkner
>No Beckett
Ngmi

>> No.19763928

>>19761180
Not for Kafka, maybe Mann, have not read him yet.

>> No.19763941

>>19761180
Only for Kafka. He writes deliciously.