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English: Shakespeare
Spanish: Cervantes
German: Goethe
Italian: Dante
Greek: Homer
Norwegian: Ibsen
Russian: Tolstoy
French: Hugo

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>>11044803
Russian : Dostoevsky*

>> No.11044836

>>11044824
u mean pushkin

>> No.11044838

Bengali: Tagore
Japanese: Natsume Soseki
American English (:^)): Steinbeck

>> No.11044840

>>11044803
Portuguese: Machado de Assis

>> No.11044847

>>11044824
u mean bely

>> No.11044849

>>11044824
>the man with virgin in his name kills himself
Based

>> No.11044854 [DELETED] 

>>11044849
>The man with virgin in his name becomes God by will

>> No.11044863

>>11044803
English: James Joyce
German: Goethe
Russian: Dostoevsky
Irish: Máirtín Ó Cadhain

>> No.11044895

>>11044849
Virginsky doesn't kill himself

>> No.11044915

>>11044824
you mean Nabokov

>> No.11044930

>>11044895
You know what I don't even know why I thought Kirillov was Virginsky. That was strange.

>the guy with virgin in his name cries like a bitch
Based

>> No.11044934

>>11044915
Worse than Turgenev

>> No.11044941

>>11044930
Demons is GOAT

>> No.11044947

French: Proust*
fite me

>> No.11044950

forgot one
Latin: Virgil

>> No.11044958

>>11044950
chad Cicero's rhetoric BTFO the virgin virgil any day

>> No.11044976

>>11044863
Okay

>> No.11044991

>>11044840
You mean Camoes right?

>> No.11045012

>>11044803
English: Shakespeare
French: Flaubert
German: Hebel
Italian: Dante
Norwegian: Ibsen
Portuguese: Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Russian: Pushkin

>> No.11045015

>>11045012
is Ibsen really all Norway has? a doll house was shit

>> No.11045016

>>11045015
They have Hamsun too.

>> No.11045024

>>11045016
still even conserding Ibsen to be their best after what I've read by him is pretty low,

>> No.11045036

>>11044803
Farsi: Ferdowsi
Chinese: Cao Xueqin
Sanskrit: Vyasa
Arabic: Mahomet
English: Me.

>> No.11045054

>>11045012
flaubert is considerably worse than proust

>> No.11045057

>>11044840
Thats not how you spell Pessoa.

>> No.11045064

>>11045057
youve been memed

>> No.11045072

>>11045054
Proust is my favorite author, French or otherwise, but Flaubert was the greater author. Indeed, he may very well be the greatest novelist to have ever lived.

>> No.11045090

>>11044803
What about Australian?

>> No.11045107

>>11044803
greek: Aristophanes

>> No.11045168

>>11044958
>>11044950
Ovid is superior to both of them.

>> No.11045176

>>11045168
>In which anon is a brainlet.

>> No.11045186

>>11045176
>Not realizing that Ovid is the greatest poet since Homero

>> No.11045190

>>11044840
Obviously Guimaraes.
>>11044803
>Dante
I've compiled below a list of everyone who'd actually disagree.

>> No.11045372

>>11044803
Wow, that's a very interesting list, very enlightening, an interesting new perspective.

>>11045015
Pro tip: your taste is shit. Ibsen is great material for /lit/izens, offers you a lot of space for interesting interpretations but is also very accessible.
But you probably noticed a well-defined and interesting female character so you classified the play as feminist and discarded it.

>> No.11045399

>>11044803
Man, you really went out on a limb here. Good thing you made this thread. Now people know those writers are considered good.

>> No.11045408

>>11044934
Worse than Bulgakov.

>> No.11045603

>>11044803
Everybody knows Cervates didn't write well.

>> No.11045638

>>11044803
Cervantes might be one of the cornerstones of spanish literature but he certainly isn't the best. I'd say Borges is the man you're looking for.

>> No.11045679

>>11045638
If you're putting Shakespeare for English, then you have to put Cervantes for Spanish.

>> No.11046051

Danish: Kierkegaard

>> No.11046090

Yeah, no way Hugo is the best French author. Proust and Flaubert are definitely more talented and both are waaaayyyyy more important to the development of the novel.

>> No.11046104

>>11045603
lolllllllll

>> No.11046514

>>11046104
Spanish is already ugly, even uglier in the Renaissance.

>> No.11046524

>>11045090
Andy Griffiths.

>> No.11046555

>>11045015
No, Hamsun should probably be the right answer here, not that Ibsen is that bad either though. We also have Dag Solstad and Karl Ove Knausgård (who lit hates for some reason). Both known internationally to some degree

>> No.11046574

>>11044803
Malay: Muhammad Haji Salleh

>> No.11046575

>>11045036
Who was "Me" and is she of some part of a chinese, or japanese dynasty?

>> No.11046670

>>11046524
good lord had a sensible chuckle

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>>11044803
>>11044824
>>11044836

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

>> No.11046851

>>11044803
You only speak English.

>> No.11047136

>>11046575
Don't.

>> No.11047149

Gaelic: Ossian (James Macpherson)

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>>11044840
t. delícia

>> No.11047187

Dutch: Corn Verbaak

>> No.11047266

>>11044803
I'm German and I'd rather have Schiller than Goethe representing my country.

>> No.11047298

>>11047187
lmao who is this nigga even


it is obviously guido gezelle

>> No.11047301

Swedish: Strindberg

>> No.11047317

shakespeare isn't an author he's a playwrite.

>> No.11047390

>>11047317
>"Napoleon isn't a human being, he's an emperor."
This is you. This is how retarded you sound.

>> No.11047391

>>11044803
polish: Prus

>> No.11047395

>>11047390
Not the same. Develop logic, brainlet.

>> No.11047412

>>11047390
an author is someone who writes books and novels, not plays you fucking retard.

Guess what, Elvis Presley isn't an author either. lol you stupid fucking retard

>> No.11047428

>>11047412
An author is someone who authors something. To author something is to write something. Plays are written. Therefore Shakespeare is an author.

You are an extremely unintelligent person and I hope you manage to get through life painlessly, without fear of being manipulated and taken advantage of on account of your retardation. Make good friends and stay at home with your mom if you can.

>> No.11047436

>>11047149
>falling for an 18th century meme.

Shitposts aren't literature even if they are in a gay ancient language that is thankfully dying out.

>> No.11047440

>>11046524
HEAPS SICK AYYYY

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>>11047395
>>11047412
Plays are books, too.

Get fucked worthless abomination.

>> No.11047645

Latin: Milton
English: Hugo
Spanish: Cervantes
Russian: Goethe
Goethe: Homer
Greek: Cervantes
Latin: Latin
Italian: ur mom
French: who fucking cares about le meme language?

>> No.11047647

>>11047428
While I agree with your argument, I think the definition can be simplified:

Is the work in question a literary work? Then whoever wrote it is an author. Period.

Some playwrights received the Nobel Prize of Literature, e.g. Eugene O'Neal, Harold Pinter.

Plays are literature. Arguing otherwise makes you a worthless autist.

>> No.11047658

>>11047647
While I agree with your argument, you really need to shut the fuck up.

>> No.11047665

>>11044803
Romanian: Mateiu Caragiale

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>>11047658
U mad bruh? U butthurt? Being unequivocally BTFO does suck, doesn't it?

>> No.11047702

>>11047687
>and then anon revealed himself to be an adolescent autist. Embarrassment abounded.

>> No.11047733

>>11047702
>He still can't accept defeat and has to reply every post made about him

You're probably a nigger, too. Stay mad, shitskin.

>> No.11047800

>>11047733
Yes I come from the greatest race on earth, the first race, the true children of god. what of it?

>> No.11047888

>>11047800
If your race is so great, why did it get enslaved in the first place?

>> No.11047911

>>11047888
Cus mayos are real crafty. But no worries. Looking at the declining white birth rates and the influx of ethnic immigration into Europe and America, we'll have our revenge soon enough :)

>> No.11047914

>>11045107
T H I S
I'm laughing the shit out of me while reading

>> No.11047974

>>11047911
Yeah, and then you'll oppress each other more harshly than any whites ever did.

Look at current African dictatorship. Also, if your race was so great, you wouldn't even need to migrate

>> No.11048032

>>11047974
Non whites are beautiful noble creatures. The pasty milksops are weak and degenerate, with no sense of honour or decency. Once they become a minority, they will tear each other apart and we shall wipe away the dregs.

We migrate because we come to destroy you.

>> No.11048163

English/Russian: Nabokov
German: Nietzsche
Norwegian: Ibsen
French: Rimbaud
Greek: Sappho
Italian: Leopardi
Spanish: Ortega

>> No.11048187

>>11045107
>BRO WE GOTTA FEED SHIT TO THIS GIANT DUNG BEETLE
>WHAT KIND OF SHIT DOES IT LIKE
>FAGGOT SHIT CAUSE IT'S SO WELL MASHED

i had to check a different edition to make sure the fucking translator didn't make this up. then he'll be doing serious political satire two pages later and then maybe some fun songs with talking animals. motherfucker's unreal.

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>>11048187
what

>> No.11048241

>>11045012
Hebel certainly is an interesting pick. I've never read anything by him. Where should I start?