/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19382188]

ATTEMPT to name a better writer currently alive on this planet right now.

[Anonymous No.19382197]

Houellebecq

[Anonymous No.19382216]

>>19382188
not even a close match

[Anonymous No.19382272]

>>19382216
Problem is K drops off hard after War & War. Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens is plodding in contrast to the foreboding of his earlier works, and The World Goes On is borderline unreadable. Seiobo There Below is pretty good, though. I haven't tackled the latest yet.

[Anonymous No.19382282]

>>19382272
Seiobo was one of his best works in my opinion. Less balanced than War and War, maybe, but with higher stylistic peaks (the Alhambra chapter and the one about the Noh actor are among the best things he wrote). Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming is not the best of the tetralogy, but definitely a great work.

[Anonymous No.19382292]

>>19382188
>currently alive on this planet right now.
Fuck anon, all those superfluous words. Obviously not you.

[Anonymous No.19382318]

>>19382292
What about me?

[Anonymous No.19382328]

>>19382188
read the goalie book and was a bit meh, what else should i check out? is his yugo-books any good or just edgy contrarianism?

[Anonymous No.19382334]

>>19382318
He's calling you a poor writer. You should have written, "Name a better living writer." All the qualifiers you added meant the same thing, so they added nothing to your sentence.

[Anonymous No.19382341]

>>19382292
Maybe he wants to exclude extraterrestrial authors. Maybe the ''right now'' was an imperative. Maybe he chose to omit the comma that would've have made the aforementioned more comprehensible to a plebeian like you who can't appreciate radically experimental prose like his.

[Anonymous No.19382358]

>>19382341
I think this is unquestionably the case, though it begs the question whether OP is a glowie or mentally ill.

[Anonymous No.19383055]

easy: Hans Bergel

[Anonymous No.19383059]

>>19382197
fpbp.