/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11857141]

Who is your favorite author?

[Anonymous No.11857146]

I don't really have a favourite author but Joyce wrote some of my favourite books so I guess it's him

[Anonymous No.11857185]

>>11857141
Triple H.

[Anonymous No.11857206]

>Cortazar
>Bely
>Guilloux
>Beckett
>David Jones

[Anonymous No.11857207]

>>11857141
Cormac

[Anonymous No.11857265]

>>11857141
>Woolf
>Borges
>Salinger
>Faulkner
>Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.11857402]

>>11857206
Do girls like this read Cortazar

[Anonymous No.11857543]

>>11857141
James Joyce

[Anonymous No.11857557]

William Gaddis I'm pretty sure

[Anonymous No.11857562]

Unironically

[Anonymous No.11857583]

>>11857141

Manchette.

[Anonymous No.11857591]

hemingway

[Anonymous No.11857592]

Unironically GK Chesterton. I consider him my patron saint

[Anonymous No.11857604]

>>11857562
Same, after I read Mason & Dixon.

[Anonymous No.11857610]

>>11857141
H.P. Lovecraft. I'd buy the man a drink if I could travel back to his time.

[Anonymous No.11857691]

I haven't read too many authors works.. but so far that I like the most probably Dosto and Ligotti

[Anonymous No.11857735]

>>11857141
Mishima
Carroll

[Anonymous No.11858158]

>>11857141
This manlet

I unironically think The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! are better than Ulysses.

[Anonymous No.11858209]

>>11858158
No AILD desu?

[Anonymous No.11858243]

Hemingway. Wanna be drinking buddies?

[Anonymous No.11858247]

Proust

Honorable mentions to Tolstoy, Woolf, and Nabokov

[Anonymous No.11858311]

>>11857141
Woolf, Wolfe, Pynchon, Strindberg, Bernhard, Hemingway, Joyce, Nabokov, Proust, Huysmans, Tolstoyevsky, Krleza, Andric.

[Anonymous No.11858370]

>>11857141
Unironically Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.11859471]

>>11857141
Gaddis

>>11857557
based

>>11857146
>>11857265
>>11857543
>>11857562
>>11857604
>>11858158
>>11858247
>>11858311
>>11858370
all good answers

[Anonymous No.11859476]

>>11858158
Have you read Intruder in the Dust? It's fucking good.

[Anonymous No.11859500]

Bob Dylan

[Anonymous No.11859508]

>>11858209
Never been too much of a fan, but it was the first Faulkner I read and I may have been a bit too young and dumb for it, I haven’t reread it yet

[Anonymous No.11859513]

>>11859476
I have read a lot of Faulkner but have not gotten to that one yet, I will check it out

[Anonymous No.11859592]

Only favorite author desu.

[Anonymous No.11859597]

>>11859500
THIS

[Anonymous No.11859822]

Gabo.

[Anonymous No.11860721]

>>11857141

[Anonymous No.11860948]

>>11857141
William GassBurroughsFaulkner. All burgers, damn.

[Anonymous No.11860954]

>>11858311
Are you ex-yu?

[Anonymous No.11860974]

[Anonymous No.11860979]

>>11860954
Yeah, I think Andric and Krleza are somewhat underappreciated worldwide though I don't know about the quality of translations. Krleza's references might be more local - Petrica Kerempuh being one of the best (quasi) medieval narratives and damn nigh untranslateable, but both should enjoy permanent fixture as chroniclers of Turkish and Austro-Hungarian presence in the Balkans.

[Anonymous No.11860997]

>>11860721
This
>>11858370
This

[Anonymous No.11861004]

>>11860974
Name one (1) book you’ve read by him other than Moby Dick

[Anonymous No.11861162]

Tolstoy

[Anonymous No.11861191]

>>11861004
As if it would be important how many books you've read by an author to appreciate his work

[Anonymous No.11861680]

>>11861191
Of course it is.
Please don't be like those people who write down the name of a band in the "interests" section just because they heard and enjoyed one song.

[Anonymous No.11861728]

>>11861680
Of course it's not, literature isn't a quest for completion. I mentioned Huysmans for example: one would either have to be a historian or a retard (or both) to read his third-rate naturalistic drivel before Au Rebours kicked into gear.

[Anonymous No.11861745]

correct answer reporting in

[Anonymous No.11861770]

>>11861004
Billy Budd

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[Anonymous No.11861794]

This guy. Opened my eyes to the truth.

[Anonymous No.11861814]

>>11861728
Fair, but I still believe that 'loving an author' means 'loving his works' in general, or at least a significant part of them. I wouldn't find it proper if someone states they love Huysmans or Melville while having read only one novel.

[Anonymous No.11861851]

>>11861814
So what? Strindberg is among my favourite authors ever since I read Inferno. Since then I've read several more of his books, but I did not read any of his dramas, which is what celebrated him in the first place; I find the outline of a dramatic text (he: speaks she: speaks he: speaks again she: enters) to be a tedious reading experience so I don't see why would I do something I don't like just because I like his other work.

In fact, I consider this sort of erudistic specialization one of key issues with modern academia and its constant compartializing. You don't need to read reams upon reams upon reams of text just because you're afraid to state an opinion. In the end, you'll be just another weakling that covers any semblance of personality with endless footnotes. Look, I know Huysmans was Zola's student - I don't give a fuck about reading that shit in order to write an essay on his literature in, say, La-Bas. Just as I dropped him as he became a turbo Christfag.

[Anonymous No.11861859]

>>11861851
>compartializing
compartmentalizing

[Anonymous No.11861914]

>>11857141
Ítalo Calvino
douglas adams

[Anonymous No.11861923]

>>11861794
What solution did he actually propose? Muh revolution? Against what? Towards what? Do you really think people would just give up on their "comfortable" and docile lifes full of porn, games and degrading social medias for some vague "freedom" and "real activities"? Grow up man, we are all doomed.

[Anonymous No.11862147]

>>11857141
Sei Shonagon