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Who is your favorite writer of the 20th century? And what's your favorite work by them?

>> No.4305450

Mishima
Runaway Horses

>> No.4305446

Probably some French faggot

>> No.4305457

>>4305446
PROUST.

captcha: pennyworth

>> No.4305462

>>4305457
Or Houllebecq or Camus

But then again since I've learned French I started reading a bunch of French literature in their original form so maybe I'm a pretentious dipshit?

>> No.4305468
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4305468

AYN RAND –"ATLAS SHRUGGED".

JEROME DAVID SALINGER –"THE CATCHER IN THE RYE".

>> No.4305475

>>4305468
>AYN RAND –"ATLAS SHRUGGED".
you're joking, right?

>> No.4305480

>>4305462
Houellebecq/Camus don't even compare to Proust, bro.

>> No.4305484

Thomas Pynchon
"The Crying of Lot 49"

>> No.4305498

>>4305475
NO.

>> No.4305518

>>4305480
Not really comparing anyone just saying how there's a lot of French authors I like in general.

>> No.4305520

Duerrenmatt

>> No.4305524

>>4305442
difficult to answer
maybe kafka, murakami following

>> No.4305531

Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn

>> No.4305527

Orwell
Homage to Catalonia

inb42mainsteam4lit

>> No.4305537

>>4305520
Interesting, nice choice... why not Max Frisch, Thomas Bernhard, Günter Grass... what makes him stand out in your opinion?

>> No.4305549

>>4305484

This, but with Gravity's Rainbow. Still nothing beats it in my mind. Really made the professor of my Joyce Seminar mad when I said Pynchon was a better writer than Joyce. She told me to get that postmodern shit out of her house (this was the final class of the semester, we went to her house to drink and eat various Irish things). I was a pretty good student, though she wasn't completely happy with my opinions about Ulysses itself.

>> No.4307836

>>4305442
Nabokov - Pale Fire.

>> No.4308260

Hubert Selby Jr.
Last Exit to Brooklyn

>> No.4309058

PKD: Ubik

>> No.4309071

Too many choices. But it would be an American.

>> No.4309122

Wystan Hugh Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening"

>> No.4309130

>>4305442
Kafka, A Hunger Artist

>> No.4309134

Phillip Larkin, The Trees

>> No.4309140

Waltari - The Egyptian or The Roman depending on the day.

>> No.4309144

Easily Henry Miller.
My favourite would be Tropic of Cancer or Sexus

>> No.4309175

>>4309058
>not choosing VALIS

u don goof, m8

>> No.4309182

>>4309175
Not him/her, but I tried to read Valis (my first book of his) and I thought it was fucking garbage. His prose was stale and all that talk about God as something which is revealed through inanimate objects--like a flower pot, I think--was also just plain stupid.