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I want to read more books from the 20th century. Who are the greatest writers of that time?

>> No.13590545

>>13590538
The Twentieth Century New Testament

>> No.13590556

> reading books
get out of here

>> No.13590560

>>13590538

1. James Joyce
2. William Faulkner
3. Marcel Proust
4. W. B. Yeats
5. T. S. Eliot
6. Franz Kafka
7. Thomas Mann
8. George Bernard Shaw
9. Samuel Beckett
10. Virginia Woolf

Henry James did most of his work in the 19th century, but he was important enough for the 20th to be noted ITT.

>> No.13590575

Claude Simon

>> No.13590634
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>>13590538
Henri Michaux
Beckett
Celine
Borges
Kafka
Joyce
Robert Pinget
Bataille (not his fiction)
Clarice Lispector
Gaddis
Gunter Grass
Leonora Carrington
Italo Calvino
Alain Bosquet
Maurice Blanchot

>> No.13590639

>>13590634
No particular order, although I'd put Michaux, Beckett, and Kafka at the top

>> No.13590656

>>13590575
What works of his would you recommend starting out with. I know almost nothing about him.

>> No.13590663

>>13590560
Jesus christ, develop your own taste

>> No.13590667

>>13590663

The more famous authors are acclaimed for a reason. Your taste must be pretty horrible if you overrate obscure authors just for the sake of appearing different.

>> No.13590679

>>13590656
The Flanders Road
The Grass

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13590700

Bernhard is the most based writer of the 20th century

>> No.13590715

>>13590667
I'd still put Eliot, Woolf, Proust and Joyce in my top 20 personally, but your list is literally like a copy/paste from the 'Goodreads best 20th century books of all time!'. A huge part of the reason all those particular authors are acclaimed is because of the historical and social conditions those particular writers found themselves in. Some of them have merit, some of them are even great, but saying that they are all objectively the best writers of the 20th century just suggests that you can't be bothered, or are frightened to, have an opinion of your own and you need Harold Bloom, goodreads et al to tell you what to pick up next

>> No.13590727

>>13590715
>projecting
Yikes.

>> No.13590729

Gombrowicz

>> No.13590739

>>13590679
Thank you

>> No.13590748

>>13590727
You can't just meme-spam 'projecting' and pretend you've made a cogent point

>> No.13590757

>>13590538
Bob Dylan

>> No.13590758

>>13590748
>took the bait, too
Yikes.

>> No.13590773

>>13590758
Whatever man have fun reading the Great Gatsby again

>> No.13590783

>>13590538
Daphne Du Maurier
Robert Warren Penn
Cormac McCarthy

>> No.13590797

>>13590773
wat?

>> No.13590946

>>13590538
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