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What are the one-hit wonders of literature? As in, people who only wrote one excellent book and then basically stopped.

>> No.18002165

>>18002131
Isabelle Allende

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>>18002131
picrel

>> No.18002268

>>18002131
Juan Rulfo wrote only 3 books. With them, he renewed the literature of a whole continent, created a new literary current (Latino american boom, he influenced all of them) and now stands as the best books from his country.

>> No.18002277

>>18002131
Opio en las nubes

>> No.18002283

>>18002277
TRIPLE DUBS OF ENLIGHTENMENT

>> No.18003085

>>18002131
EKIP EKIP

>> No.18003090

sylvia plath

>> No.18003145

>>18002131
John Kennedy Toole, wrote confederacy of dunces, which was published and won a literature prize, after he had committed suicide. His mother showed it to different publishers and university professors, and finally she found a professor who dreaded reading it, because the things he gets asked to read are often terribly mediocre. He started reading and was surprised and even astonished when this was a great read.
Its a great and hilarious book, the main character is legitimately /lit/ incarnate. It's amazing how it almost describes 4chan humor like he was a lurker here, but its 40 years before this website was even a thing.

>> No.18004559

>>18002131
Laclos wrote a single novel, les Liaisons Dangeureuses, in his middle age after living a relatively un/lit/ life as a low level military officer (he had written an opera before but it was a disaster). It was a timeless masterpiece, and he knew it was over, anything he wrote beyond that would be filler in complete works.

>> No.18004842

>>18002131
melville
/thread

>> No.18004861

>>18003145
not just any professor lol, Walker fucking Percy

>> No.18004865

For me it was John Lindqvist. Let the Right One In was fantastic, but everything else he's done has left me cold

>> No.18004878

>>18004842
*seethes in typee*

>> No.18004967

>>18002131
felipe alfau. He only wrote 2 books, one published. He was postmodern before the movement. locos is great please go read it.