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Post your top 3 authors. Be judged/given a recommendation based on them.
>Kafka
>Gogol
>Hamsun

>> No.20546897

Joyce
Peake
Tolstoy

>> No.20546905

>>20546890
>James Joyce
>Ted Hughes
>WB Yeats

>> No.20546921

>>20546890
Henry Miller
Emerson
Nietzsche probably(could probably swap him for 10-20 writers depending on how I’m feeling. Choosing just 3 is hard)

>> No.20546931

These threads invariably suck. I try to give a idea of what I might be interested in, and I get either stuff I've already read and didn't like, or stuff that seems to only have a superficial resemblance based on a google search to what I suggested and nothing in common with the themes, stylistic considerations, or the things that drew me to the works I mentioned in the first place.

>> No.20546950

>>20546897
Faulkner/Woolf
>>20546905
Ezra Pound

>> No.20546974

>>20546890
for fiction:
Barker
Dick
Asimov

for non-fiction (philosophy):
Schopenhauer
Schmitt
Rousseau

>> No.20547022

>Zola
>Flaubert
>Melville

>> No.20547037

>>20546931
>these threads invariably suck
Have you seen the rest of the catalog lately? If anything, these threads are a breath of fresh air

>> No.20547046
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>>20546890
Handke - A Moment of True Feeling

>> No.20547055

>>20546890
>Spengler
>Kant
>Marx

>> No.20547183

>>20546890
Percy Shelley
Thomas Mann
James Joyce

>> No.20547572

Babel
Simonov
Shmelev

>> No.20547571

>>20546890
Check Akutagawa and Borges, OP.

>> No.20547577

>>20547183
Mary Shelly, Heinrich Mann, or Joyce Carol Oates

>> No.20547585

Dosto
Celine
John Williams
Shakespeare
Rilke
Houellebecq

>> No.20547594
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William Blake
Lev Shestov
Vergil

>> No.20547745

>>20546890
Dostoevsky
Fitzgerald
McCarthy

>> No.20547996

>>20547745
Reddit

>> No.20548100

>>20547594
Bataille

>> No.20548112

>>20547022
Thomas Hardy

>> No.20548126

Nietzsche is the best writer I've encountered. None suck me in as much. Any recommendation?

I also like writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann, Hemingway, Bolano, and others. Still they don't produce the same magnetism in me that Nietzsche does.

>> No.20548130

>>20546974

Stanislaw Lem

>>20548126

Kierkegaard

>> No.20548174

Camus
Pratchett
Kafka

>> No.20548196

>>20548174
john james mcharden

>> No.20548218

>>20547594
>>20547745
Dees Nahts

>> No.20548231

>>20547055
Klages?

>> No.20548284

>>20548218
Yes, the author of famous works such as
>The Case of Lic-Ma-Baw's Rice Paddy
>In Search of St. Sau Khan
>Candice's Shack
>The Gull Pine Club

>> No.20548287

>>20548284
dont know these. were his works translated into english? i dont know, i read him in dutch. his most famous work must be "de boterham"

>> No.20548291

>>20546890
Based taste.
Check out Mann and Strindberg.

>> No.20548301

Máirtín Ó Cadhain
Geoffrey Keating
Padraic Ó Connaire

>> No.20548333

>>20546890
In Russian, Gogol is like Quentin Tarantino from the world of literature.
I don't know how to explain it. It's like Cormac McCarthy + Mark Twain. It's like Homer and Charlie Chaplin.
American writers were obsessed with writing the Great American Novel, and Russian writers were obsessed with becoming the Second Gogol.
Among them were Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov.

>> No.20548349

>>20546897
Joyce is a very strong writer, but Mervyn Peake...
I love Gormenghast and I have read it with great enjoyment, but it cannot be compared to truly great literature, no sir!

>> No.20549175

Tove Jansson.
David Ohle.
Kobo Abe.

I like casual surrealism. Don't say Murakami.

>> No.20549182

>>20548100
No. Fuck off, fag.

>> No.20549339
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>>20546890
Patrick Suskind
Dante Alighieri
Edgar Allan Poe

Pic semi-related

>> No.20549407

>>20546890
William Shakespeare
John D. MacDonald
Steven Erikson

>> No.20551225

F Gardner
The Greeks
JK Rowling

>> No.20551584

>>20546890
Christ
Buddha
Socrates

>> No.20551773

>>20546890
Andrei Platonov
>>20547594
Jacob Boehme
>>20549175
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

>> No.20551779

Dostoevsky
Hamsun
Mishima

>> No.20551945

>>20546890
Melville
Vonnegut
Murakami

>> No.20551967

>>20546890
OP isn’t coming through. It’s too hard to do a top 3 to get a rec. Need to at least do a top 5

>> No.20552443

>>20547572
I recommend Vassily Grossman if you liked Babel as a commissar among the Cossack, following the anarchists and the whole circumcision judgment.

>> No.20552879

>>20546890
Tolstoy
Orwell
Freud

>> No.20552913

Dostoevsky
Shakespeare
Balzac
Stendhal
Conrad

>> No.20552933

>>20546890
Alan Moore
Philip K Dick
Umberto Eco

>> No.20552937

>>20546890
>life when you're 5 foot 11

>> No.20552939

>>20552933
have sex incel

>> No.20552944

>>20546897
tendriyakov
>>20547046
gabriel loidolt
>>20549339
kiplings weird fiction

mine are:
borges
bolano
mishima

>> No.20552965

>>20546890
Tolkien
Guenon
Homer

>> No.20553541

>>20546890
Joyce
Peake
Tolstoy

>> No.20554217

Clive Barker
Brian Lumley
Alan Moore

>> No.20554223

>>20546890
hmm..

>Marcus Valerius Martialis
>Julian the Apostate
>John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

I'll be checking back for my promised recommendation.

>> No.20554225

>Mark
>Matthew
>John

>> No.20554248

>>20546890
>Pascal
>Schmitt
>Heidegger

>>20546974
>Schopenhauer
>Schmitt
Based
>Rousseau
Cringe

>> No.20554387

Pynchon
DFW
Joyce

>> No.20554403

>>20554248
Really any of the contractarians will do (same anon you're replying to)

>> No.20554407

>>20552939
Ok, ill go out and rape right now

>> No.20554578

After we were done with sex I went back to 4chan.

>> No.20554792

Where is my recommendation faggot bitch

>> No.20554806
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>>20546890
>Rimbaud
>Schopenhauer
>Pynchon
Need to lurk more.

>> No.20554886

>Joyce
>Dosto
>Andrei Bely

>>20554225
Very funny based trad post, friendo :)
Dostoevsky or Kierkegaard I guess.

>> No.20554909
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>>20546890

>> No.20555787

>>20548174
Try Gombrowicz

Mine:
Hesse
Murakami
Selimović
Murakami and Selimović are pretty interchangeable, I guess I'm at the point where I've only read 1 or 2 books by most authors

>> No.20555825

>>20546897
Shit taste.

>> No.20555838

philip k dick
roberto arlt
julio cortazar

>> No.20555867

>>20548126
borges
>>20548174
mempo giardinelli
rodolfo walsh
>>20551779
>>20554225
jose hernandez
leopoldo lugones

>> No.20555949

>>20546890
At this moment
> Wilde
> Ruskin
> Blake

>> No.20556823

>>20555825
take that back

>> No.20557019

>>20554225
Luke

>> No.20557023

>>20546890
Pretty fucking based OP.

For me it's:
Gogol
Chesterton
Dosto

>> No.20557325

Delillo
DFW
Hammett

>> No.20557411

>>20552944
Milan Kundera

>> No.20557577

>>20546890
McCarthy
Joyce
Nietzsche

>> No.20558332

>my promised recommendation.
where is my promised recommendation.

>> No.20558354

hmmrumm not what i expected:

out of 58 posters:
Nietzsche considered Top 3 by only TWO
(i expected way more due to the /pol/ & /his/ drift)
Schopenhauer with an equal Two
Tolstoy with Three

Orwell only considered by One

With the most citations being for James Joyce with Nine

>> No.20558358

>>20555949
>Ruskin
I didn't know Ruskin wr- oh yeah he did write that book for his fiance, I thought he was mostly a painter though?

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>>20554223
ed.
>Marcus Valerius Martialis
>Julian the Apostate
>John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Can I switch Julian who only wrote a little for Harlan Ellison who obviously wrote a lot? I can't believe I forgot about the best author of our time.

changing it now
>Marcus Valerius Martialis
>Harlan Ellison
>John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
not. in. that. order.

>> No.20558387

>>20558354
Yes, it is well known that /lit/ has absolutely ATROCIOUS taste in literature. I am the one who had both Orwell and Tolstoy, but most on here lap up the complete DRIVEL which is Dostoevsky's work or Joyce's work.

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>>20558387
>ATROCIOUS
i .. wouldn't go that far, there's plenty of single citations for better interesting authors ad authors I've never heard of; my shock was that Neech got so few.

I have to agree though, Joyce, from what I've read and recall, isn't anything particularly interesting.

>> No.20558401

Thomas Pynchon
Yukio Mishima
Vladimir Nabokov

>> No.20558406

Faulkner
Pynchon
Yeats

>> No.20558412

>>20558401
I see you go for the safest options,anon

>> No.20558957

>>20546890
Goethe
Dostoevsky
Hemingway

>> No.20559058

>>20547585
pls recommend me some more unknown writers.

>>20558401
Max Frisch

>>20558406
John Williams

>>20558957
Friedrich Schiller
Vasili Grossman

>> No.20559113

>>20547055
are you Adorno himself?

>> No.20560044

>>20546890
Dostoevsky
Faulkner
TS Eliot

>> No.20560062

Tolkien
Gurm
A.C. Doyle

>> No.20561599

Victor Hugo, dostoevsky and Emile Zola

>> No.20561612

>>20546890
big doors are so cool. people in wherlchairs ruin everything.

>> No.20561698

Borges
Bolaño
Cortazar

>> No.20561747

>>20558394
I have read Portrait of the Artist and Dubliners and basically only one of the short stories in Dubliners was pretty good, the rest of it really dragged. And right on cue we have Dosto fags showing up >>20558957>>20560044>>20561599

>> No.20561871

Simenon
Kouji Mori
Dumas

>> No.20561875

>>20560044
Donne

>> No.20561885

Joyce
Hemingway
Salinger

>> No.20562055

>>20561698
sabato
garcia marquez
bioy casares

>> No.20562307

F Gardner
The Greeks
JK Rowling

>> No.20562314

Me
OP
This anon here>>20560044

>> No.20562348

>>20555838
>roberto arlt
>julio cortazar
Makes me wonder if you're a LatAm bro. I'd recommend Cabrera Infante if you haven't already read him.

>> No.20562364

>>20562348
i am
wanted to include horacio quiroga but hes more of a role model than a favourite writer
thanks for the recommendation

>> No.20562400

>>20555838
Levrero.

>> No.20562636

Joseph de Maistre
Ernest Hello
León Bloy

>> No.20562647

>>20559113
No just a typical German.

>> No.20562651

Nabokov
Faulkner
Tolstoy

>> No.20564050

>>20561747
Yeah, I enjoy Dostoevsky's writings. What's the exact issue?

>> No.20564059

>Joyce
>Dostoevsky
>Shakespeare