/lit/ - Literature

[Stagolee !0Pey/QLK3E No.1513613]

itt underrated authors

anon gives this guy way too much flack

[Anonymous No.1513628]

>underrated
>Fitzgerald
This must be a troll. Every writer loves him. I think The Great Gatsby is Franzen's favorite book.

Hubert Selby Jr.
Elif Shafak
Katherine Mansfield
Dashiell Hammett
Paul Harding
Marcellus Emants
Shusaku Endo

[Anonymous No.1513627]

The word is slack, OP, way too much slack.

[None !WvWWh.l.CE No.1513632]

I'm reading Great Gatsby right now :)

[Anonymous No.1513635]

Maxence van der Meersch.

He wasn't a good writer, though. But i've really enjoyed his work.

My partners in college don't give a fuck about him
My mother doesn't give a fuck about him. Nor my father.
The libraries where i've asked about his work don't give a fuck about him
/lit/ doesn't give a fuck about him, while being too happy sucking García Márquez's old cock.
Damn. Nobody around me gives a fuck about him.

But i do. And that's what matters

[Anonymous No.1513639]

Underrated? on this board, Thomas Hardy.
in general: hmmm don't know

[Suuede No.1513643]

>>1513639
No.


>>1513639
Please.
>>1513639
Just no.

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1513647]

Fitzgerald is a shitty writer


he would make a terrific god

[Anonymous No.1513649]

Dan Billany

I urge you to read The Trap. Wonderful book (written during the war, died before it was published).

[Anonymous No.1513652]

Halldor Laxness.

[Anonymous No.1513657]

>>1513639
>Underrated? on this board, Thomas Hardy.
That's pretty astute.

Might just be my experience, but Nathaniel Hawthorne seems to be underrated in the UK. The Scarlet Letter gets a mention now and again, never the author or his body of work.

[Anonymous No.1513662]

>>1513643
and

>>1513643
yet

not a cogent

>>1513643
argument

>>1513643
in sight

>>1513643
just attempt

>>1513643
at posture


>>1513643and

unusual

>>1513643
posting style


>>1513643
just no


>>1513643
i mean

>>1513643
sorry. no

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1513669]

>>1513657
his works are horribly overwritten

he shares the same fate as Fitzgerald

[Anonymous No.1513681]

>>1513669
strange, I;m reading tess at the moment and there's hardly a wasted sentence. in fact, its kind of stripped down prose. not got round to that one?

[Suuede No.1513683]

+1 internets for the kid who said Laxness was underrated. He only won-- like what?-- the Nobel prize in Literature. He's still underrated though, and my favorite non-English language author of the 20th century. Good day, sir.

[Anonymous No.1513689]

Tolstoy
Shakespeare
Dickens

[None !WvWWh.l.CE No.1513691]

>>1513681
he means the latter ._.

Hardy is entry-level one-trick pony.

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1513693]

>>1513681
oh Hardy, yes i meant Hawthorne

Hardy is the opposite I've heard

the horrible thing is I've had Caster bridge and Jude sitting on my coffee table for months now

[Anonymous No.1513696]

>>1513691
?

again, don't understand post. really weak arguments here tonight.

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1513704]

>>1513696
don't think we are alike in taste or mind

The only problem i have with Hardy is his alleged precision

that is, to say, he is awfully normal

should i go back on my own view?

[Suuede No.1513764]

Don't say entry-level, it makes my claim sound pseudo.
If you must have a reason, Hardy just didn't have a sound theory behind his oeuvre. The Mayor of Casterbridge being the only novel of his that I care to remember, I felt that his drawn-out rising action, punctuated by a series of supposedly unpredictable turn of events, only weakened the plot as a whole, and as a result, all of the characters lacked dimension. Henchard, a romanticized Greek hero, lacked the pathos to make me, the reader, identify with him. The extremes of his personality were beyond the scope of believability and it would seem that he is not so much a victim of his environment-- of Fate, but of himself and his own distorted perception of reality. So naturally, my opinion of him shrank at every wrong decision he made, because I could clearly see-- not for my own intelligence and anticipation of events, but rather for lack of a good story teller-- that it was the wrong one, and could therefore not empathize with his tragic destiny.

There.
Come at me, bro.

[Anonymous No.1513794]

>>1513652
>>1513683

So glad to see this. Truly.

[Fabulous !!GXZe+d0RTva No.1513799]

>>1513764
i have not yet read your posts, but catching a glimpse of the beginning made me want to tell you that entry level is no degrading class of literary standing

entry level novels are some of the best written in man's small history

[Anonymous No.1513839]

>the only novel of his that I care to remember

the only one you've read, I suspect. And even if that isn't the case, isn't it a little blase (ah, you like these continental expressions don't you) to be talking about his flawed 'oeuvre' on the basis of the one work 'you care to remember'.

Tell you what, find out what the fuck you're talking about first and then I'll come at you. Because as far as this stuff goes

>because I could clearly see-- not for my own intelligence and anticipation of events, but rather for lack of a good story teller-- that it was the wrong one, and could therefore not empathize with his tragic destiny.

I have no idea what you're talking about.

The only thing that had any semblence of truth in your post was there as a matter of chance: you used the word 'fate'. And, making the best of this drivel, yes it is a common (and probably quite justified) criticism of Hardy that he relies too much on happenstace, even by the fluke-ridden standards of the day.

As for the rest of your post, I'm afraid I couldn't really understand it. Perhaps you should reacquaint yourself with Hardy's oevure before posting this sort of nonsense.

[Anonymous No.1514526]

>>1513652
On the rare occasion I have seen Halldór Laxness brought up in /lit/ it has always been positive. Independent People is slowly circulating in the TC (as one of us is Icelandic and a fan). Underrated sure, but not unappreciated.

>>1513635
I've never heard of him. I'll make a note of it.

>>1513764
I appreciate your taking the time to explain why you dislike Hardy. I don't agree with you but my knowledge of the man comes secondhand from a friend in academia who's crazy about him so I might have some bias.

[Anonymous No.1514542]

Bulgakov

[Anonymous No.1514543]

W.Somerset Maugham

At his height he was considered bigger than Dickens which is an incredible title to have. However, when we look at him now he is a footnote among 20th Century Authors.

His novels both describe a period of time extremely well but are also completely nonjudgmental in their portrayal of the characters. Even those that hurt and cripple our beloved protagonists are not viewed as bastards but simply people who have made mistakes and just as capable of good as anyone else. Similarly, none of the heroes are all too good either.

[Anonymous No.1514553]

>>1513613
Gordon Lish.

[Anonymous No.1514568]

ionesco, everybody on the theater of the absurd in general

excepting beckett

[Anonymous No.1514657]

Appointment in Samarra by O'Hara.

Never seen it mentioned here. Contender with Fitzgerald, Hem, any other 20th century US author. Unfortunetly the rest of his stuff isn't nearly as good.

[Anonymous No.1514675]

Stag so entry-level