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>age
>five favorite writers

>> No.6811405

>21

>kafka
>vargas llosa
>steinbeck
>cervantes
>BEE

>> No.6811410

>19

>Nabokov, Eco, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Borges

>> No.6811413

>>6811396
>20
>Saramago
>Pynchon
>Bellow
>Saunders
>Murdoch

>> No.6811417

>22

Pynchon
Wallace
Kracht
Fitzgerald

Sorry I'm a Plen, I can't even make it 5

>> No.6811431

23

Donne, Shelley, Hardy, Woolf and Joyce,

>> No.6811436

>18

Dosto, Borges, Pessoa, Perec, Joyce

>> No.6811445

>>6811396
20
Proust
Pessoa
Genet
Bataille
Dostoevsky

>> No.6811446

>33

>Brautigan
>Ishiguro
>Lowry
>Pynchon
>Greene

>> No.6811452

>21
Gertrude Stein
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Jack Kerouac
DH Lawrence
Swift & Voltaire

>> No.6811473

>24
Gaddis
Swift
Pynchon
Borges
Calvino

>> No.6811477

26

McCarthy, O'Brien, Hemingway, PKD, Kundera

>> No.6811485

>18
Dostoevsky
Wallace
(William) Burroughs
Ginsberg
Tartt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqBIgCb7dv0

>> No.6811486

25
Samuel Beckett
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Frank Kafka
Flann O'Brien
Witold Gombrowicz
I also want to say Robert Walser

>> No.6811493

>>6811486
Lol Frank

>> No.6811498

24
>McCarthy
>Faulkner
>Mishima
>London
>DeLillo

>> No.6811508

>32
>laszlo krasznahorkai as translated by george szirtes
>italo calvino as translated by william weaver
>virginia woolf

>> No.6811514

>21
>Dostoevsky
>Joyce
>Hemingway
>Woolf
>Maugham

>> No.6811515

>>6811498
Have you read any Gaddis or McElroy? You might like them.

>> No.6811524

>>6811508
Definitely George for the Laszlo translations. But Ozzie might get better. I can't imagine translating him is an easy process and her prose is still enjoyable. Nice to see you here thanks for talking.

>> No.6811531

>>6811396
>24
>John Hawkes
>Pinecone
>James Joyce
>Der Maisvater
>David "smell of cunt in the morning" Foster "audience pussy" Wallace

>> No.6811539

>>6811515
What are their similarities to my favorites?

>> No.6811541

24
rilke
pinecone
joyce

>> No.6811543

>>6811396
46

>Matthew
>John
>Luke
>Mark
>Thomas

>> No.6811545

>>6811539
Their postmodern aspects are handled a lot more maturely and the books more resemble reality a lot like Delillo, and I'm assuming you can deal with some experimentalism if you like Faulkner a great deal.

>> No.6811549

>>6811545
Cool, I thank ye

>> No.6811561

>>6811508

> Italo Calvino

That's my boy. Novels are incredible, but Cosmicomics is far and away the most amazing collection of short stories I have ever read.

>> No.6811572

>>6811561
i'm not sure if any of his books really qualify as novels, they all seem to be made up of lots of little bits, even if a lot of them are structured into a larger whole. but yes, cosmicomics is incredible. so much imagination and wit
>>6811524
she's not bad at all, she just doesn't quite have the same genius at making it flow as naturally. it feels a touch more arbitrary, like a full stop would have been fine instead of a semi-colon. but then again, i have no real way of knowing if this also reflects the style of the original, as seiobo certainly has even longer sentences than any of the other ones i've read. anyway, i'm happy to have more translations of his stuff by both of them (but i'm especially happy that george is doing the one i'm really interested in)

>> No.6811574

20
Maupassant
Kafka
Hemingway
Camus
Pessoa

>> No.6811902

19

Hardy, DH Lawrence, Pynchon, Salinger, Hemingway

>> No.6811908

>>6811561
Really calvino is one of my favorite writers but I just did not like Cosmicomics at all really. The Our Ancestors Trilogy and Invisible Cities were much better though and I adore If on a winter's night a traveler.

>> No.6811928

>>6811396
18
George RR Martin, Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Carl Sagan, Tolkien

>> No.6811947

>>6811928
>Lovecraft

>> No.6811950

>19

>Kafka
>Tolstoy
>Nabokov
>Dumas
>Camus

>> No.6811965

>>6811572
Which is George translating? The short stories?

>> No.6811986

>>6811965
From the North by Hill, From the South by Lake, From the West by Roads, From the East by River

>> No.6811995

>Proust
>Joyce
>Kafka
>Pinecone
>Dostoevsky

16

>> No.6811996

>21

>Borges
>Gaddis
>Gerhardie
>Fowles
>Pinecone
>Goethe
>Shakespeare
>Joyce
>Dick
>Woolf

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>>6811995
Are you Thomas' kid?

>> No.6812014

20
>Melville
>Dostoevsky
>Conrad
>Gogol
>Hardy

>> No.6812026

>19

>Nescio
>Gerard Reve
>Borges

>> No.6812028

25
>Steinbeck
>Erdrich
>Barry
>Hemingway
>London

>> No.6812031

>>6811986
Have you seen any actual news about the upcoming translations Or have they just begun work?

>> No.6812062

>>6812031
no idea, i just saw on wikipedia that he was translating it when an anon mentioned the book a while back
although looking at his website, it has it listed for 2015 release
http://www.krasznahorkai.hu/book_list_comingsoon.html

>> No.6812188

22

>Mann
>Hesse
>Tolstoy
>Kafka
>Atwood

>> No.6812208

>>6812026
nescio is real good

>> No.6812238
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>>6811396
>20

>Cormac McCarthy
>John Keats
>Rainer Maria Rilke
>Goethe
>Nescio

>> No.6812244

>18

>Houellebecq
>Pessoa
>Fitzgerald
>Hugo
>Dickens

>> No.6812270

>>6812208
The best.

>> No.6812287

>18 and French

>Louis Pergaud
>François Rabelais
>Thomas Pynchon
>Tristan Corbière
>Fyodor Dostoevsky

Wish I could put more people in the list.

>> No.6812301

24

Ortega y Gasset
Julio Cortazar

>> No.6812341

20

DFW
Joyce
Tao Lin
Pynchon
John Green

>> No.6812369

>>6812341
Nice b8

>> No.6812408

24

Woolf
Stevens
DeLillo
McCarthy
Pynchon

and the greatest,

Herman Melville

>> No.6812438

>>6812408
>obligatory Gaddis recommend

>> No.6812833

/lit/ core: The Thread

Joyce, Pynchon, Dostoevsky, McCarthy, Woolf.

>> No.6813774

>>6811473
i bet you'd like Enrique Vila- Matas, Bartleby & Co. especially

>> No.6813809

19

>joyce
>hemingway
>pound
>ts eliot
>milton

>>6811446
>Ishiguro

Ever read The Unconsoled? I've read the synopsis and some reviews and it seemed pretty interesting

>> No.6813827

>26

>Italo Calvino
>Machado de Assis
>Lord Byron
>Bernard Cornwell
>H.P. Lovecraft

>> No.6813883
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6813883

20 Female, Rhode Island but I hate it hear
>salinger
>vonnegut
>G.R.R. Martin
>Orwell
>John Green(I know that hating him is a meme here, but he is actually a good writer)

>> No.6813889

>>6813883
too obvious

>> No.6813893

>>6813889
??
what do you mean?

>> No.6813895

>20

>Borges, Pynchon, Cortázar, Murakami, Beckett

>> No.6813899

>>6813883
>Female
>hear
>grr martin
>orwell
>john green

cmon

>> No.6813920

>>6811396
>26

>Dumas
>Herbert
>Goethe
>Locke
>Evola

>> No.6813984

>>6813809
The unconsoled is the tits.

>> No.6814000
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33


Joyce
Pynchon
Eliot
Gaddis/Lowry tie
McCarthy

>> No.6814029

>>6811543
Nice getting Pynchon in there; truly the only writer since the gospels' authors to to write something equally profound.

>> No.6814060

26

Pynchon
Gogol
Hemingway
Dostoevsky
Melville

>> No.6814072

>>6811543
edgemaster

>> No.6814080
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>>6814029
Ayy

>> No.6814085

>18
dostoevsky, huxley, orwell, wilde, hardy

>> No.6814237

>>6811396
Joyce
Kafka
Wallace
Hemingway
Hesse or somebody, who cares.

Really, REALLY eager to read more Pynchon, (only read 49) but his shit is surprisingly hard to get a hold of where I live.

>> No.6814245

>>6814029
can you at all explain why?

>> No.6814247

18

Hesse
Jünger
Lovecraft
Disraeli
Ligotti

>> No.6814256

Oh boy

19

Poe
Ellison
Alighieri
Vonnegut
Roosevelt

pls bully

>> No.6814259

>>6812301
based

>> No.6814265

21

Pinecone
Robert Anton Wilson
Hesse
Harold Pinter
Tao Lin

>> No.6814326
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>>6811396
20
Pynchon
Vonnegut
McCarthy
Hitchens
Annie Dillard

>obligatory David

>> No.6814339

>>6814326
I think taking a big fat shit on that canvas would really push that piece into the space reserved for timeless classics

>> No.6814356
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>>6814339
He's not crazy popular but I really enjoy his work.
Didn't ask anyone else to enjoy it.

>> No.6814365

>>6814356
All I'm saying is if he were to take a big ol' dumper on that canvas, he might take the first step to fixing his lack of exposure.

I think it's fine, but then anything I could produce BUT it could be more with one bowel movement.

>> No.6814370

>>6811396
>18
>Salinger
>Wilde
>Kafka
>Borges
>Tartt or Pratchett

>> No.6814408

18

Camus, Kundera. Murakami, Bolaño, Bioy Casares

>> No.6814425

>26

>G.K. Chesterton
>Italo Calvino
>Gene Wolfe
>Marilynne Robinson
>Michael Ajvaz
>

>> No.6814433

>>6814425
Fill it in for you? Ok. Hmm, Asimov will be your sixth.

>> No.6814451

19

Borges
Heller
Elliot
Clavell
GRRM

>> No.6814608

>>6814425
Where to start with Calvino, I´m >>6814408, if it´s useful

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>>6814608
Not him.

See image.

>> No.6814698

>>6814616
gr8 m8, thanks

>> No.6815143

25

Hemingway
Bukowski
Askildsen
Heller
Dostojevskij

>> No.6815519

>>6814698
I'm the guy you asked originally. I made that flow chart, so that's also what I'd recommend.

>> No.6815968

>21

>Hemingway
>Orwell
>Lovecraft
>Camus
>Murakami

>> No.6816016

>19
Bradbury
Vonnegurt
Dostoevsky
McCarthy
Kafka

>> No.6816076

>21

>Pynchon
>Joyce
>DeLillo
>Vollmann
>Dickens or Kafka

>> No.6816084

>>6811410
You'll enjoy Gene Wolfe

>> No.6816092

Dostoevsky
Wolfe
Tolstoy
Chekhov
Dick

>> No.6816108

>>6811396
27

Borges
Heaney
Wolfe
Bukowski
Vonnegut

>> No.6816114

>>6816108
Fuck, I should probably have put Dick instead of Heaney to be more honest...

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>>6814339
get your mind out of the gutter

>> No.6816159

>>6811396

>22

>Mishima
>Vonnegut
>Shirley Jackson
>Dennis Cooper
>Robert Boswell

>> No.6816169

25

Borges
Platonov
Dostoevsky
Kafka
Mishima

>> No.6816176

>>6816169
How is the foundation pit? I've heard it compared to Kafka and Beckett

>> No.6816211

>>6816176
I think it, and Platonov's work in general, has more optimism in it than a lot of other literature related to dystopias or alienation that he's often compared to. I always sense a real optimism beneath the cynical parody that for me makes him a lot different than the likes of Kafka. He's a lot more comical too. But you can see some affinity. I liked the Foundation Pit a lot. I especially like his short stories, particularly The Cow and Among Animals and Plants.

>> No.6816898

27

Boileau
Turgeniev
Ronsard
Hugo
Ariosto

>> No.6816906

20

Sartre
Genet
Kierkegaard
Weil
DFW

>> No.6816907

>>6811396
24

Michael Crichton
J.R.R. Tolkien
Robert Louis Stevenson
J.K. Rowling
K.A. Applegate

Yeah, I like the last two. Deal!

>> No.6817131

>19

>Lovecraft
>Easton
>Steinbeck
>Nobokov
>Orwell

>> No.6817606

>>6812833
>implying the majority of /lit/ likes Woolf

Half hate on her just because she's a woman

Should be Murakami

>> No.6817609

>>6817131
>Easton

Are you referring BEE as Easton?

>> No.6817615

>>6812833
>>6817606

/lit/ in two poasts.

>> No.6817620

>>6817606
>murakami

/lit/ hates japanese john green

>> No.6817807

>22

>bukowski even though i shouldn't
>brautigan
>burroughs even though i really shouldn't
>vonnegut
>joyce

idk i think bukowski is just a remnant of my 15 year old self but i really enjoy his tedium
and i really like how he had an active role in the film barfly and saw how he was being presented and was like "yeah this is about right"

brautigan is definitely my favorite writer for lots of reasons, though

>> No.6818209

>>6816898
>Aristo
i dont believe you

>> No.6818237 [DELETED] 

17

Robert Graves
Nathaniel West
Faulkner
Henry James
Knut Hamsun

Wilde probably would've beaten out Hamsun if he had written more novels and less plays.

>> No.6818251

21

Joyce
Nabokov
Carver
DFW
Melville

>>6818237
I was a little surprised to see Hamsun. I really like Hunger; what else would you recommend of his?

>> No.6818252

22

>Dostoyevsky
>Plato
>elspeth huxley (White Man's Country: Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya)
>Nietzsche
>Tolkien

Anyone got any recommendations for further reading? I've heard Marquez but I haven't moved on it yet. Truthfully most of the books I've read are academic history texts or just singular books by authors, but the ones I've listed I've liked consistently over multiple books

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>>6818251
Wanting to read some Joyce, finishing Gravity's Rainbow now, what do you suggest?

>I have Portrait on me rn

>> No.6818275

>>6818251
Mysteries and Pan aren't as good as Hunger. But i enjoyed them. Their endings lingered in my head for weeks after i read them.

>> No.6818280

>>6818275
>>6818251
shit

>> No.6818310

>>6818269
If you're into short stories at all, Dubliners is essential. Reading the last story, The Dead, for the first time is when I realized how much I love literature over every other art form.
If you'd rather stick to novels for now, read Portrait first and then Ulysses immediately after. The latter is a far more extraordinary work IMO but Portrait provides some really necessary exposition on one of the main characters.
Ulysses is a hell of a commitment in terms of time and concentration but once you come to appreciate it, it becomes clear why it's largely considered to be the greatest novel of all time.

>> No.6818322

>23
> Joyce
>Hemmmingway
>Marquez
>Beckett
>Norman Maclean

>> No.6818356

>>6818310
i just bought dubliners today for $1 at an ice cream shop and was excited because i haven't read it yet as i don't like reading joyce in ebook format

i'm extra excited to read it after your post

>> No.6818360

>>6818310
Might go to Dubliners first...want to work on some easier stuff after five long months of GR

>> No.6818366

>21

>Pynchon
>Hawkes
>Woolf
>Faulkner
>PKD
>Vonnegut

>> No.6818371

18

>Heller
>Miller
>Beowulf
>Shelley
>Swift

>> No.6818380

>>6811396

19

McElroy
Theroux
Hawthorne
Joyce
either Milton or Spenser

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>Eighty-Five

>Shakespeare
>Milton
>Cervantes
>Chaucer
>Dante

>> No.6818686

>6811396

>24
>Vila-Matas
>Hermann Hesse
>Borges
>Bolaño
>Marquez