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20896720 No.20896720 [Reply] [Original]

I love the idea of "following" a living author if I loved their work nearly as much as my favorites, but idk where to begin with current authors.

ITT: list your favorite authors/books, and others rec living authors based on them

My favorites:
>Proust
>Tao te ching
>Borges
>Whitman
>Bukowski
>Tolstoy but Death of Ivan Ilyich

thanks in advance bros

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20896726

F Gardner

>> No.20896728 [DELETED] 

>>20896726
>Call of the Crocodile
>Call of the Arcade
>Call of the Kappa
Etc.

>> No.20896738

>>20896720
Cormac MCccwtgh

>> No.20896773

>>20896720
>Bukowski
I’ve never read him, but I read a good amount of Houellebecq and enjoy him, and hear the two fairly often compared.

>> No.20896814

>>20896773
thats interesting i'll check him out. he seems to have some influences similar to Proust and i enjoy every french writer i've read

>> No.20896944

John Barth
Somerset Maugham
Joseph Conrad
Kurt Vonnegut
Robert Heinlein
James M Cain

>> No.20896993

>>20896738
Fernanda Melchor.
>>20896720
Maybe you’d like Javier Marías and Mario Bellatín. Annie Ernaux is not really similar to Proust but in La Place she very quickly compares someone with François and, as a fellow Proust autist, I found her reflection wonderful. And I’ve never read Bukowski but I’ve seen people compare Pedro Juan Gutiérrez (I’ve only read one of his novels —Fabian and the chaos— and it was good) to him.

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20896999

F Gardner

Call of the Crocodile
Call of the Arcade
Call of the Kappa
Etc.

>> No.20897000

>>20896993
>Annie Ernaux is not really similar to Proust
I’ll actually contradict myself because, thinking more about it, both Proust and Ernaux share a somewhat similar view of the relationship between literature and life and between the reader and the text.

>> No.20897010

>>20896993
>>20897000
I’m a retard and forgot to write in some of my favourites:
>Joyce
>Gombrowicz
>Anna Kavan (only Ice, really)
>Schwob

>> No.20897623

>>20896738
Who?

>> No.20897665

>>20896720
The Bible

>> No.20897686

>>20896993
>she
dropped

>> No.20898834

>>20896720
Jenny Erpenbeck, unless you're some no-girls-allowed retarded manchild

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>William Blake
>Lev Shestov
>Heraclitus
>S.T. Coleridge
>St. Augustine
>Callimachus
I have not read any author from after the 1950's

>> No.20900130

>>20896720
Krasznahorkai

>> No.20900272

My favourites are always changing, but here's my quick list:
>Ted Hughes
>Seamus Heaney
>W.B Yeats
>James Joyce
>Samuel Beckett/Eugene O'Neill

>> No.20901578

>>20897665
That’s a fantasy book.

>> No.20901590

>>20897623
Carmex c mfCarthy

>> No.20901963

I would like some suggestions too.
My favorites are:
>Jorge Luis Borges
>Alejo Carpentier
>Roberto Bolaño
>Walter Benjamin
>Victor Hugo