/lit/ - Literature

>>22164966
No, you're just choosing to be ignorant because you want to be against current thing.

>>22164973
>No, you're just choosing to be ignorant because you want to be against current thing.
What? I literally asked for recommendations...
So...recommend someone...

>>22164966
DeLillo, Barth, Coover. I'm not so knowledgeable of the current writers but Joshua Cohen is a talented prose stylist and there's a good chance he produces something truly great.

>>22165007
Oh and McElroy of course but people don't really know about him.

Franzen

>>22164966
All this shit about muh last writer is sensationalistic and silly. Here in LatAm people said that when Bolaño died kek life and literature go on, faggots.

>>22165014
>McElroy
he's fuckin' 92 years old dude

>>22165031
>people said that when Bolaño
Well...What talent has latin america produced since Bolano died?

>>22165031
Wasn't bolaño a communist faggot?

>>22164966
You are going to get a lot of latin american authors because 4chan is a Hispanic board now.

>>22165079
Only when he was a young hippie. He became disillusioned with the in-fighting of communist parties and decided communism was retarded.

>>22165007
i'm open minded to the idea of good/great contemporary writers so give me the best joshua cohen has, since you've mentioned him

>>22165031
The last great LatAm writer was Gabriel García Márquez

>>22165070
Enrigue, Melchor, Bazterrica, Schweblin, Fabre, Esquinca, Saldaña París, Monge, Zambra.
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>>22165007
DeLillo
87
>Barth
93
>Coover
91
I feel like you failed to understand the assignment...

>>22165095
Vargas Llosa is still alive.

>>22165111
Cool. Thanks for actually listing writers. If you had to pick one, who's your favorite and which of their works should I start with?

>>22164966
I guess that's how things look when you are spoonfed by Americans on /lit/.

>>22165112
He asked if Pynchon was the last writer, so I gave him other writers who are still alive?

>>22165120
Try these: Hurricane Season by Melchor, Tender is the Flesh by Bazterrica, Sudden Death by Enrigue.

>>22165093
Book Of Numbers is bold and experimental but the story never quite lands as it should, whereas Moving Kings tells an exceptionally well balanced, intelligent, stylish story, albeit rather narrow and safe. If he can work out how to combine the best traits of both, he’ll write something truly important.

>>22165127

>>22165121
>I guess that's how things look when you are spoonfed by Americans on /lit/.
and yet you failed to make a single recommendation...

>>22165124
>He asked if Pynchon was the last writer, so I gave him other writers who are still alive?
and you listed all writers older than Pynchon?

>>22164966
>>22165118

>>22165156
kek this is why you dont give recs on /lit/

>>22165181
Someone might post a picture of vomiting Madotsuki?

>>22165184
Yes

>>22165168
Not him but Vargas Llosa is one year older than Pynchon :)

>>22165149
okay, which one do you recommend to me to read first? (i may not read the other, depending on how the first goes)

>>22165220
se acabó...

>>22165014
i've written him a couple emails. very nice fellow.

>>22165220
and nobody responded to him...

>>22164966
>cormac mccarthy's recent passing
shit, i hadn't even heard. alright

>>22165234
Moving Kings, certainly a better introduction.

There are a ton of good lyricists. I know its not as strict a discipline since most shit sounds good to a beat but still

Mario Vargas Llosa
Isabel Allende
Eduardo Galeano
Carlos Fuentes
Luisa Valenzuela
Silvina Ocampo
Rubem Fonseca
Javier Marías
Jorge Volpi
Santiago Roncagliolo

Are all amazing living writers

>>22165363
>A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, "a major American writer" (The New York Times).
i'll give it a shot

>>22165374
I'm pretty sure Allende is dead

>>22165374
Rubem Fonseca is dead too.

>>22165374
Galeano and Marias died too.
Marias is not even latinamerican.

>>22165007
Cohen can write well but has no fucking idea what to write about.

William Vollmann is 64.
Arthur Nersesian is 64.

>>22165149
so far he reads like a crude mockery of wallace. and i write this regretfully, as mentioning cohen in the same sentence as wallace is disparaging of dfw.

>>22165811
>William Vollmann is 64.
He probably has another good one in him.
>Arthur Nersesian is 64.
I only ever read The Fuck-Up and I was impressed but I think only because I read it when I was young. I tried to revisit it once and was less impressed than I originally remember being. Still haven't read anything else by him.

>>22164966
Gerald Murnane is an infinitely better writer than pynchbum.

>>22164966
Is gravity's rainbow good? I've never read a book by Pynchon before

>>22165374
>Carlos Fuentes
He's dead
>>22165573
>Marias is not even latinamerican.
That guy never claimed otherwise

>>22166421
lol no

>>22164966
culture itself is coming to an end soon enough

>>22166593
Lol yes

>>22164966
>*Writes the best satirical fiction of the 21st century in ur path*

I will write the final novel

>>22165991
Take the dead, dry cock of Wallace out of your mouth for once.

>>22164966
Dennis Cooper

>>22164966
>I don't know of or don't see any of the new generation taking on literary fiction with any type of commitment
Read Alan Moore's Jerusalem

>>22167870
Moore is a retard

>name me young writers who have achieved the same status as these old writers with their whole career behind them

>>22168161
He's not. What does this .jpg prove, exactly?

>>22168249
>there are surviving masterpieces from every year

>>22168265
>What does this .jpg prove, exactly?
That Moore is retarded. Compare & contrast picrel if things remain unclear to you.

>>22168391
Moore confirmed English fat-head

>>22168391
How is he retarded, can you actually give a concrete reason as to why you're labeling him as such or is your whole schtick just repeating that you think he's a retard?

>>22168161
>>22168265
>if the historical Jesus can be disproven
>if

>>22168368
When was the last decade without a great writer? Maybe between Chaucer and Wyatt? When there were only 2 million native English speakers and the majority were illiterates.

>>22164966
damn that nigga's ugly fr

>>22168391
>man does not know what is good for him
>that's why you should listen to what these men say is good for you

Are all Christians this retarded?

>>22168161
And what does this have to do with the quality of Jerusalem?

>>22164966
Boomer literature in America is a swathe of puerile dogshit, so much the better. Who gives a fuck.

Goncolo Taveras - but he wont be respected til he dies
Marlon James might have another one in him if he stops with the gay twilight shit
Tom Mccarthy
I think Oondatje and Coetze and Julian Barnes are still alive, but they are tapped out