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Who was the last great writer?

>> No.23246103

>>23246085
Tolstoy. He belonged to the last generation that wasn’t past the tipping point of falling into hopeless materialism.

>> No.23246133

>>23246085
Beckett but there have been great books written since him

>> No.23246140

Homer

>> No.23246166

>>23246085
Hesiod

>> No.23246168

>>23246085
Pynchon

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>>23246085
Bronze Age Pervert

>> No.23246181
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David Foster Wallace was the last one I can think of. There are plenty of good'uns about but GREAT I guess it's DFW

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Aren't you forgetting someone?

>> No.23246214

>>23246181
>>23246195
These are the only two real answers in the thread.
>>23246175
He will be studied in future anthropology classes, but otherwise no one will have heard of him.

>> No.23246263

Murakami is still alive and I honestly think he's great.

>> No.23246348
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>> No.23246364

jd salinger

>> No.23246381

>>23246085
kraszahorkai, gombrowicz, alfred doblin, cioran

>> No.23246404

Geoffrey Hill
But le wrong generation is reddit. Stop putting old men on a pedestal. You can do better than those hacks, have some goddamn self respect.

>> No.23246408

>>23246348
Wow. I didn't know he ever was young.

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>>23246408
Yeah, it is odd how we hold to one image of a person, even ourselves, an image from a moment of time. But we have all done so many things. I think of Wolfe, a soldier in the Korean war, feeling the artillery barrages through the Earth as he lays in his tent... There are passages in BotNS which seem to me to drip with autobiographical content, especially some of the scenes surrounding war.

>> No.23246425

Houellebecq. I despair that there are really none like him. His work is some of the most transgressive and raw that I have ever encountered.

>> No.23246427

>>23246085
>was
I'm still alive

>> No.23246434

>>23246085
rebecca yarros

>> No.23246449

>>23246263
I like his work but I don't know why. I also think he's terribly overrated by people who don't quite know why he's great and not given any credit by those who don't have a contemporary novel to offer as a counterpoint. I think his work will have some longevity but time will tell.

>> No.23247359

>>23246427
This anon, unless he's older than me, in which case it's me

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>>23246085
Stravinsky
any other answer is manchild cope
go play with your ewok punkos

>> No.23248071

Beckett, he died towering over the generation after him and he looms even larger when looking at the current crop. Ireland in particular shows a disgusting decline in literature before and after Beckett.

>> No.23248087

>>23246085
My complete 4chan shitposts will collected and presented to future generations as spiritual guidance.

>> No.23248113

Philip K. Dick

>> No.23248457

>>23246085
Homeros

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Why did Americans fight for the bad guys in the Spanish Civil War?

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>>23246181
Respect but I always get confused with Dallas-Fort Worth when his name is brought up in abbreviated form. I used to live there, fuck that place.

>> No.23248620

>>23248603
>the picture of frasier
>the hatred of dallas
>the respect for david foster wallace

could it be, the perfect post?

>> No.23248624

>>23246103
>hopeless materialism
The Anglo-Saxon model of economics is the worst, the nordic model is not as bad but it is still bad as it encourages charity and idleness, and the Asian model is too authoritarian and centralized. The system of governance Aristotle depicted in The Athenian Constitution, along with the class system Plato described in Republic are the best solution to Social-democracy and American (Anglo) capitalism.

>> No.23248884

>>23248624
>The system of governance Aristotle depicted in The Athenian Constitution, along with the class system Plato described in Republic are the best solution to Social-democracy and American (Anglo) capitalism.
That's just how you get Latin America and Southern Europe (pre-1970s)

>> No.23249084

>>23248884
Imagine combining the concepts of crowd funding, DeFi , debt obligation in a form of smart contract and co-operative enterprise where the workers own the means of production from the day they get the job until they quit or forced to quit through voting and get compensated for their shares (buyback) according to the valuation of the business. Taking power from the bankers and giving it back to the commoner. Although, I understand that some people are destained to rule and others to be ruled, according to Aristotle.

>> No.23249091

>>23249084
>I understand that some people are destained to rule and others to be ruled
Master-slave relations never ceased but merely changed to employer-employee.