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What are the best examples of middlebrow lit?

>> No.9616421

Everything from Eugenides, everything from Franzen

>> No.9616429

D F W
F
W

seriously, every other culture board has shed its middlebrow idols; we need to do the same

>> No.9616443
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>>9616410
Probably Franzen too.

>> No.9616494

>>9616410
is that kojima? that sweater is fucking dope, where can I get one like that?

>> No.9616515

>>9616410
Franzen
Bolaño
GGM
Danielewski
DFW, kinda
Houellebecq
Virginia Woolf
Dostoyevsky

>> No.9616531

>>9616410
Anything DFW or the Simpsons.

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>>9616515
>Dostoyevsky

>> No.9616544

>>9616494

It's obviously designer

>> No.9616558

>>9616410
contemporary german lit, sherlock holmes, robinson crusoe, tolstoy, stendhal, somerset maugham

>> No.9616561

>>9616544
that's not what i asked

>> No.9616573

>>9616515
you're doing it wrong desu

Middlebrow novels are competently written but unambitious and 'safe' and easily accessible.

Ian McEwan or Donna Tartt are good examples. Its light entertainment without being full blown genre shite.

DFW, Woolf and Dosto are the absolute polar opposites of middlebrow, regardless of their literary merits

>> No.9616615

Best middlebrow:

Slynx
Book of the New Sun
Au Rebours
Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Idiot
Devils of Loudun
Crying of the Lot 49

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>>9616615
>Au
>of the Lot

>> No.9616661

McCarthy
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>> No.9616671

>>9616573
This guys gets it

>> No.9616683

There is no middlebrow literature, middlebrow is an approach to literature.

Literature is only divided between good and bad, or rather "Worth reading" and "Worth skipping"

>> No.9616715

>>9616410
/lit/ starter kit

>> No.9617984

Ron Rash and Walker Percy are friggen excellent

>> No.9617989

>>9616561
i'm answering the question you should have asked

>> No.9618020

Would yall consider Rushdie high- or middle-brow?

>> No.9618040

>>9616429
I don't recall /mu/ shedding David Bowie or Bjork.

>> No.9618050

>>9616615
4/10

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>>9618020
Definitely middle. Anyone published in the New Yorker is by definition middle-brow.

Malcolm Gladwell is the king of middle-brow non-fiction.

Pic related: middle-brows love this shit.

>> No.9618773

>>9616421
David Mitchell, Alexander Dumas, maybe Franzen

Not at all Dostoevsky/DFW/Pynchon as others have posted here...

>> No.9618798

You realize this is just a thread for people to self-aggrandize by putting down authors generally considered "high brow" or "classic" as being "middle brow", with the implication that the poster reads/exists one level above everyone else? Stupid.

>> No.9618799

>>9618692
Like everyone defines shit how they want but you'd lack any high lit.

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>>9616661
Delete this

>> No.9618819

>>9618798
>franzen
>generally considered high brow or classic
anon, I...

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>>9616410
Murakami.