2010s literature

[Anonymous No.17096446]

What are your favorite books of the last decade? I have come to know many good books thanks to /lit/ and I wanted to share some of my favorite books of 2010-2020.

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[Anonymous No.17096591]

Memorial del Engaño - J. Volpi (2013)
English title: Deceit (Untranslated?)
This book is peculiar because it was published under a "pseudonym" and all the book plays along with that: the blurb discusses who is the "author" (the narrator and main character of the novel), there are some praises written by nonexistent journalist in the interiors, and even the legal page states that the book is a translation.
It is supposedly the autobiography of one of the main players in the beginning of the 2008 economic crisis, in which he explains what happened and how. It also contains a history of Harry Dexter White and his team, the founder of the FMI who was accused of being a communist spy.
This is a novel without heroes: every character in it is just going behind their personal interests without caring if they make other people suffer. At some point, the narrator cynically states that the 2008 crisis was the biggest wealth distribution movement from the middle to the upper classes. The author, Jorge Volpi, said in an interview that he wanted to create a character which was like Humbert Humbert in the sense that he was clearly a despicable person but somehow managed to make the reader feel sympathy for him. I think he was successfu. Reading this made me interested in economics and finance.

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[Anonymous No.17096630]

Does anybody here still think this was good? Remember the hype?
I do. It was the first book you memed me into buying and i think it captures the drugged style of thought very well. Unfortunately I lent my copy and never got it back.

[Anonymous No.17096658]

>>17096601
I was legit scared when pic related was published on the very same day of the Charlie Hebdo Attacks

[Anonymous No.17096758]

otro dia... (poemas sintéticos), by Verónica Gerber Bicecci (2019)
This is one of my favorite books. It is an anthology of haikus which could not even be copyrighted due to their nature.
This book is kind of a follow up or "b-side" to one of the most famous haiku anthologies in the Spanish language: "Un dia... (Poemas sintéticos)" by José Juan Tablada (1919), the poet who introduced the haiku to literature in Spanish. This book imitates the style of Tablada's book. The sections and titles are identical, but the content is very different. While Tablada writes about nature and landscapes, Bicecci writes about the destruction of nature, dehumanization and recent catastrophic events. Every haiku is like a stab and a wake up call. Each one of them are very effective, even though she claims to have written them using texts she collected while googling the topics she investigated to make the book.
As the original book by Tablada, each haiku is accompanied by an illustration. In this case, she used the photos which were sent in the Voyager spacecraft and bleached them to imitate the original drawings by Tablada.
This is an excellent book and I invite every Spanish-speaking /lit/izen to grab a copy.

[Anonymous No.17096850]

On the non-fiction side, Narcoamérica, by Colectivo Dromómanos
The authors of this book, an ensemble of journalists, traveled the route of cocaine backwards: from New York to South America, to find the stories of the people whose lives are in some way or another affected by the drug industry. This book talks about a Central America where death is so much of a daily occurrence that a mother doesn't shed a tear for the death of her son, a Brazil where women have sex in exchange for another dose, a Bolivia where there are places in which living without chewing the coca plant is just impossible and its harvest is legal, a Mexico where the police hands a group of 43 captured students to a drug cartel, never to be seen again, and many other places. This is a great book which explains the human costs of the drug industry.

[Anonymous No.17096954]

Fiesta en la madriguera by Juan Pablo Villalobos (2010)
(English title: Down the Rabbit Hole)
Stylistically-driven and member of an alternative tradition within Mexican literature, Juan Pablo Villalobos writes here a novel is which the language of crime blends with the language of business, through the lens of a young boy who loves reading the dictionary, watching classic movies and the animals of his private zoo. He is the son of a powerful druglord and he's obsessed with the idea of adding a liberian pygmy hippopotamus to his collection of living animals.
I kind of hyped this book at my university and received many good comments on it, then gifted my copy to a cousin in middle school and they got to add it to the reading list for his Spanish class.

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Cicatriz, by Sara Mesa (2015)
(Title in English: scar)
Sara Mesa is a very interesting prose stylist. Even though I don't remember most of this book (I was probably in the worst moment of my life then), I do remember it had a very powerful atmosphere and a sense of intense paranoia about it. I want to reread it.

[Anonymous No.17097187]

>>17096446
Jon Fosse -- Weariness

Lazlo Krasznahorkai -- Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

Cesar Aira -- Artforum

Enrique Vila-Matas -- Dublinesque, Never Any End to Paris, and The Illogic of Kassel

John Crowley -- Ka Dar Oakley

Gerald Murnane -- Border Districts, A Season on Earth

[Anonymous No.17097237]

Great recommendations frens!
For me it was Point Omega by Delillo, but, admittedly, I haven't read much new /lit/

[Anonymous No.17097432]

>>17096446
THE BOOK OF BIG CHUNGUS

[Anonymous No.17097622]

Steinar Lødings massive Jernalderdrøm project. I've only read the first book after discovering it on The Untranslated but i was blown away.

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>>17097187
>Lazlo Krasznahorkai -- Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
This BTFOs every other 2010s book without much effort.

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>>17097187
>>17097966
i didnt even kno that dude was still writing or alive

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>>17097971
He said it's his final book iirc.

[Anonymous No.17098498]

10:04 by Ben Lerner and Tabù by Giordano Tedoldi

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[Anonymous No.17098684]

Bump

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[Anonymous No.17099152]

Here's some poetry I really liked from the 2010s.