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who is the greatest author alive?

pic related, my vote

>> No.2396143

Laszlo Krasznahorkai.

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pic related, my vote

>> No.2396145

Hannibal from the A Team writes?

>> No.2396154

Gene Wolfe

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>>2396144

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disclaimer, i only feel qualified to render my feeble internet dweeblord judgment on ppl who write in english

>> No.2396179

>>2396143

Can you tell me a little bit about him? I have seen satantango the film and I thought it was great, however it was really slow and hadn't I been depressed at the time with no goals at life for the moment's sake, I wouldn't have loved it.

Either way, what's so cool about him?

>> No.2396189

[spoilers]Pynchon[/spoilers]

>> No.2396190

steve jobs

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He was a good science fiction writer nothing more.

>> No.2396210

jack vance

>> No.2396215

PYNCHON

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>> No.2396814

Joyce Carol Oates

>> No.2396819

Kenzaburō Ōe

>> No.2396833

>>2396808

Greatest author alive? No I'd go with Pynchon.

But, Houllebecq is probably the greatest author who can still write (sorry Pynchon).

>> No.2396835

>>2396833
Against the Day and Mason & Dixon were great.

>> No.2396883

Cormac McCarthy

>> No.2396887

Asimov

Proficient in math, applied physics, theoretical physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, literature, philosophy; he wrote about all these subjects, and only a tiny part of his books are sci-fi, even though he did pioneer the whole science-fiction genre; he patented visionary concepts such as robot psychology or psychohistory, which are being used right now.

You will never be as knowledgeable, well-read and prolific as Isaac Asimov.

>> No.2396888

>>2396887
Asimov isn't alive, bro.

>> No.2396892

>>2396887
Those thing are all true, but as a writer he was mediocre at best, so no.

Also >>2396888

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>>2396892
> but as a writer he was mediocre at best

>> No.2396898

>>2396892
>Asimov
>mediocre writer
how about no?

>> No.2396913

>>2396898
>>2396897
His writing style was bland and he couldn't write a single believable character.
But that's ok, I don't expect those things from a sci-fi author, I expect cool and original ideas, which he delivered.

>> No.2396914

>>2396883
this

>> No.2396928

Clive Cussler. Deal with it.

>> No.2396935

>>2396887
My Stanislaw Lem beats your shitty Asimov up.

Although it's true that Asimov had a degree in chemistry, he was involved in the Polish resistance and a doctor, quote: "In 1976 Theodore Sturgeon said that Lem was the most widely read science fiction writer in the world."

You Americans have no idea of literature.

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>> No.2396938

>>2396935
Why can't you like them both, for what they are? Retard.

>> No.2397372

>>2396935
>You Americans have no idea of literature.
I am an American. I have an idea of literature.

Surely you, with your infinitely superior grasp of our language, did not mean to imply some acceptable level of understanding? I'm really sorry; I must not understand.

PS: I still love England.

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Doris Lessing

>Your face when you confirm with Wikipedia that she's still alive