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Going on a binge of reading classic literature I wonder what can be enjoyed that can be so poignant and wonderful? I request contemporary literature that can at least compare, if not equal to the classics.

>> No.1013674

looking for alaska is very reminiscent of crime and punishment

>> No.1013677

The Power and the Glory

>> No.1013974

dostoevsky doesn't impress me
what you think of that shit?

>> No.1013984

>>1013668
The Catcher in the Rye

probably read it already, but hey, it's a classic and it's damn good.

>> No.1014752

Anything by Tolstoy under 150 pages. The Death of Ivan Illych and The Kreutzer Sonata are both wonderful

>> No.1014761

Infinite Jest

>> No.1014775

>>1013677
Stupid christfag shit. Also not literature.

>> No.1014788

The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monae

>> No.1014814

>implying contemporary literature is anything but shit and piss

The spiritual successor to the classics are, believe it or not, science fiction short stories from the middle of the 20th century. They mostly achieve in 5-25 pages what classics achieved in 250-500.

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>Implying the so-called "classics" weren't just standard pop fiction from their respective times that were elevated to godly status by academic consensus

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>>1014843

>implying you not mad

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>> No.1015216

Christ, people forgot about all the shit they wrote back in the day. The good stuff gets reprinted. The "Twilights" of the old days (say,"The Castle of Otranto") rot.

Contemporary recommendations: Kazuo Ishiguro, John Barth, Joan Didion (at least her nonfiction), William Gaddis.

>> No.1015227

ID RATHER READ THE PENIS WAS BY BRO FUCKING BROSKI

>> No.1015229

>>1015216

Donald Barthelme also.

>> No.1015230

>>1014843
0/10

>> No.1015233

>>1015230

He's not wrong about a lot of what's considered "classic" lit. Christ, they tried passing off Wilkie Collins, who was the Stephen King of his time, as a classic.