/lit/ - Literature

Mishima

Kōbō Abe
Jorge Luis Borges
Osamu Dazai
Gabriel García Márquez
Vikram Seth
Elif Shafak
Rabindranath Tagore

>>3058368
Greatest Asian writer ever...?????

>>3058375
>Jorge Luis Borges
>Gabriel García Márquez

He said, "non-American". South America is still part of America. Expect if you're a dumb American who insists it's all the States.

>>3058385
I phrased that wrong; that's not what I meant. I'm glad he included South-American writers. I should have said non North-American.

Ben Okri - The Famished Road
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Some fairly entry level African literature there.

>>3058385
>Every single book is from the US, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, or Russia.
Latin American literature would certainly seem to satisfy at least the spirit of his question.

Why are South America and Isreal western nations?

>>3058415
Shrug. Blame Wikipedia.

>>3058409
except in his map of the world he colored south america blue grouping it with the rest of western literature that he has read.

>>3058423
The map clearly doesn't correspond to what he's saying in the OP. [If it's meant to, than (s)he's weird.]

I see why you'd think that though. After reading the actual post, I felt like (s)he should've just used a different picture.

>>3058423
OP here. Did not make the map. Searched Google Images for "Western culture" This came up.

>>3058378
Mo Yan

j/k it'sTao Lin

Dubravka Ugresic, Slavenka Drakulic, Milorad Pavic, Vladislav Bayatz.. give the Serbo-Croatian literature a shot, it's worth it.

Ba, Tutuola, Oyono, Thiong'o, Salih, Soyinka are all very important writers in the African literature canon. Season of Migration to the North, Death and the King's Horsemen, The Palm Wine Drinkard, and So Long a Letter (various works by the aforementioned authors) are probably what I would recommend to be more specific.

>>3058473
I was talking about Mishima.

Tao Lin is American.

>>3058478
Have their works been translated (into English) well?

>>3058478

Start with none of the above though - Ivo Andric has good translators and is pretty accessible. Bloody good too.

I used to have a Serbian mistress who translated Desanka Maksimović poetry and sent it to me - she's a good poet, but I don't know how much of her work is available in pukka English translations.

Don't you just love the West. It makes me feel all proud inside.

Read Saramago's Blindness and mostly anything by Fernando Pessoa. Be a depressed man.

Haruki Murakami

>>3058540
8/10

>>3058415

South America - former Euro colonies

Israel - Euro-Jewish colony

Try checking out the recommendations charts for countries other than the ones you mentioned.

http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading/Literature_by_origin

I was trying to find a copy of Macunaima by Mario de Andrade recently and couldn't but I hear it's good and I want to give it a try some time.

The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki

If you don't want to drop 30 dollars for the full some-thousand page thing, grab the Drover Thrift edition off Amazon. It's a good intro, covers the first 10 or so chapters, and costs about three dollars.

Crime and Punishment was a damn good read.

>>3058650

>Western country, East Asian country, Western country, East Asian country, Western country, Western country, Western country... oh hey, Iran!

>chart is shitty, underdeveloped, recommends poor translations

>/lit/ in charge of literature

>>3058703
it's a community effort, you know. That's what wikis are. If you see something that needs improvement and can improve upon it, you should.

Osamu Dazai
Yukio Mishima

>>3058366
There aren't any. Except for Russian lit, that shit is the best in the world.

>>3059207
>There aren't any

Dohoho.

>>3058650
Why is Kafka in the Germany section?

>>3059246
He's in the Czeck section too, probably in the German cause he wrote in German.

>>3058703
It's just collected based on country, most people here are more familiar with western lit so those section are more developed. If you know anything out of the western sphere please add it! Hopefully /lit/ can find some new territories to explore

Nicolai Lilin

>>3058568
This. (Would you believe I've met people who think that Spanish was the native language of the original inhabitants of the Americas?)

I recommend Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih. The author is Sudanese, but its modernist influences make it easier for the western reader.

The novel appropriately focuses on the conflict between the so-called East and West, but it isn't as straightforward as Things Fall Apart.

>not russia

Do you guys have any recommendations for Indian authors?
Being infatuated with languages as I am, I'd like to take up French and Hindi when I've sufficiently learned German (which will hopefully be cemented in me when I study there next year).