/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4566129]

>your nationality
>favourite author from your country

pic related is mine.

[Anonymous No.4566199]

>>4566129
Man I love Bernhard, good choice.

pic related is mine

[Anonymous No.4566220]

[Anonymous No.4566225]

Pretty easy choice for me.

[Anonymous No.4566235]

tough choice, i'd have to go with this guy.

[Anonymous No.4566239]

>>4566235
never read any rimbaud but this pic is just the coolest

[Anonymous No.4566252]

>>4566225
muh fellow countryman and niggah

[Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ No.4566744]

>>4566129
>Californian
>Ursula K. Le Guin

Sorry. Haven't read any Steinbeck yet.

[Anonymous No.4566863]

méxico
salvador elizondo

ez every time

[Anonymous No.4566874]

American
Seneca (who claimed, like Diogenes, to be a citizen of the world)

[Anonymous No.4566910]

>tfw you come from a small island that has produced no writer of worth.

[Anonymous No.4566938]

>>4566910
I'm Australian too.

[Anonymous No.4567127]

Whitman

[Anonymous No.4567144]

Colombian.
Andrés Caicedo.

[Anonymous No.4567145]

am.
dfw

[Anonymous No.4567155]

Venezuelan
Rómulo Gallegos, I guess ;-;

[Anonymous No.4567161]

Brazil.

Machado de Assis I guess.

>>4567155

Is it really HAPPENING or is it just social networks making a fuss over nothing?

[Anonymous No.4567163]

>>4566938
I recommend you read A Fraction of the Whole.

[Anonymous No.4567168]

>>4567163
Steve Toltz, by the way.

[Anonymous No.4567182]

Brazil.

Machado de Assis too.

[Anonymous No.4567424]

>tfw when crush on brazilian girl you know but she won't even accept fb request

[Anonymous No.4567443]

[Anonymous No.4567466]

>>4566744
Picked up The Lathe of Heaven and definitely enjoying the read. Highly rec to anyone.

[Anonymous No.4567468]

Waltari

[Anonymous No.4567491]

Egypt
Mustafa Zikri

[Anonymous No.4567571]

>>4566239
>tfw most of /lit/ have a gay crush on a teenage Rimbaud yet never read any of his poetry.

Seriously, I don't think /lit/ would give a fuck about Rimbaud if he was unattractive.

[Anonymous No.4567585]

>Sweden
>Hjalmar Söderberg

[Anonymous No.4567590]

>>4567443
I prefer Hjalmar Söderberg.

[Anonymous No.4567593]

Dylan Thomas

[Anonymous No.4567596]

>Slovak
>Ivana Gibova

[Anonymous No.4567616]

New Zealand
C.K. Stead

[Anonymous No.4567701]

Is
>Argentina - Borges
too obvious?

[Anonymous No.4567719]

Finland
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen

[Anonymous No.4567725]

>>4566129
>your nationality
I have double nationality and none of these two countries is mine. Therefore brace yourself for three consecutive posts
>Etgar Hilsenrat

[Anonymous No.4567726]

>Slovenian
Ž-žižek?

Nah I'm joking. It's Vitomil Zupan.
I recommend his Menuet for a Guitar, an interesting personal view of WWII.

[Anonymous No.4567728]

>>4566199
>>4567468
>>4567719

There can be only one.

[Anonymous No.4567730]

>>4567719
Have you read his newest one yet?

[Anonymous No.4567732]

>>4567725
>Venedikt Yerofeyev
(Yuz Aleshkovskiy from Bulgaria; Fazil Iskander is from Abkhazian; Voynovich is from Yugoslavia. It's difficult to find an author "from that country" in an empire)

[Anonymous No.4567733]

>>4567732
OK. We've done the nationalities, now for my country:
>Etgar Keret

[Anonymous No.4567735]

>>4567730
No, not yet. I don't really keep up on Finnish literature. Besides Jääskeläinen, I enjoy Johanna Sinisalo and Leena Krohn and that's about it. Oh, and Tove Jansson too, I guess.

[Anonymous No.4567747]

>>4566910
I feel ya, kunt

[Anonymous No.4567748]

[Anonymous No.4567750]

[Anonymous No.4567757]

Czech Republic

Milan Kundera

[Anonymous No.4567758]

Brazil
Guimarães Rosa - the only really great author from this country (Machado is very good, though).

[Anonymous No.4567761]

Argentina
My nigga Julio Cortázar

[Anonymous No.4567767]

[Anonymous No.4567776]

[Anonymous No.4567781]

Portugal
Eça de Queiroz

[Anonymous No.4567787]

Mein Hermann.

[Anonymous No.4567825]

Croatia

Pic related.

[Anonymous No.4567864]

Jew from Jewland, pic related

>Etgar Keret

[Anonymous No.4567871]

>>4567161
>>4567182
plebs

>>4567758
second choice

Brazilian
Graciliano Ramos

[Anonymous No.4567874]

I'm dual nationality.


>Brit Poet
A tie between Gerald Manley Hopkins and Ted Hughes
>Brit Novelist
Eliot or Trollope;

>Merry Poet
Robert Frost or e e cummings
>Merry Novelist
Dennis Johnson

[Anonymous No.4567907]

[Anonymous No.4567912]

Brazil
Clarice Lispector

[Anonymous No.4567923]

>>4567767
Nietzsche was nationless. Otherwise I might aswell say Kafka because he wrote german.

Anyway, Jakob van Hoddis.

[Anonymous No.4567926]

Germany
Arno Schmidt

[Anonymous No.4567938]

>>4567590

Me too. I think Strindberg is overrated as fuck.

[Anonymous No.4567945]

>>4567926
You, I like.

[Anonymous No.4567952]

>tfw Dürrenmatt was not german
How could I forget?

[Anonymous No.4567960]

Iceland
Halldór Laxness

[Anonymous No.4567990]

>>4567960
Aren't 1 in 10 Icelandic people published authors?

Why aren't you?

[Anonymous No.4567992]

>>4567990
That's a bullshit number, and who's to say that I ain't?

[Anonymous No.4567993]

>>4567992
Get fucked retard

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24399599

[Anonymous No.4567994]

France
St-Exupéry

[Anonymous No.4567995]

>>4567993
I'm aware moron, but where is the data that supports this hypothesis? It's just something people say because we're a book hungry nation.

[Anonymous No.4567999]

Das Thread ist gut

[Anonymous No.4568010]

>>4567999
>Dieser

[Anonymous No.4568018]

>>4568010
Sie sind also eine tatsächliche Grammatik Nazi?

[Anonymous No.4568024]

>>4568018
>Sie sind also eine tatsächliche Grammatik Nazi?

Sie sind also ein tatsächlicher Grammatik-Nazi

dat shame ;_;

[Anonymous No.4568025]

>>4568018
Not that guy, but stop using google translator.

[Anonymous No.4568038]

>England.
It's a tie between Thomas Hardy or John Milton.

[Anonymous No.4568058]

[Anonymous No.4568065]

>>4566938
>who is Patrick White?

[Anonymous No.4568081]

>>4568025
Ich spreche nicht Deutsch aber verstehe fast alles. Ich sehe: google ist gut genug. PromtXT kann Gender gut aber er klingt robotisch. Jeder kann google verbessern. Zum Beispiel: Ich, du, er/sie/es just now.
>>4568038
and nothing more modern? I've long been planning to read Milton because he had such a strong influence on all of the Romantics on the continent, but what are the books read by your intellectuals? Stephen Fry made a nice programme on Russia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRPDM7OTMrI
Nitpicks on that: He missed
- Pelevin, Russia's Pynchon. His topics are cyberpunk, genX-Y pastimes, pop culture, asian mystics and concepts from pomo philosophers. It is the only serious author taken at face value by people who aren't literature teachers or post-menopausal women. They hate him because they don't get it and think he is mocking their fabulous deep erudition.
- Dmitriy Bykov, who gave an interview. There are good chances it was Bykov who put a veto on Pelevin but recommended Sorokin and Prilepin.
- Terekhov, Ulitskaya, Yelizarov, Aitmatov etc.
They all were dropped for the sake of two completely unknown authors - this youngish pulp horror mom and another girl, from the Armenian countryside. I guess Stephen Fry, as a professional telly eunuch, was very much concerned there were people around his public could identify with at first sight.

[Anonymous No.4568090]

>>4568081
>Ich sehe: google ist gut genug.
obviously not, this sounds wonky as balls. just speak english pls

[Anonymous No.4568094]

>>4568090
>this sounds wonky as balls
That was my own German and not that of google, du Dümmchen.

[Anonymous No.4568096]

>>4568094
>Dümmchen
Even though I can't explain why, that should be Dummchen. Or Dümmerle, if that's more your thing.

Just stick to Arschkrampe or Hodenkobold, really.

[Anonymous No.4568100]

>>4566129

Switzerland, so er... Nicolas Bouvier.

[Anonymous No.4568113]

>>4566863
Any recommendations?

[Anonymous No.4568141]

>>4566129
>Thomas Bernhard
depressed Austrian postwar Chernukha.
>>4566220
>Pynchon
American (?) Vonnegutist who wrote books drawing from a popular culture I do not know. I only understood the slapstick, the pornography and his attempts to take some lowbrow jabs at Nabokov's «nymphettes». 's not my thing.
>>4566225
>Jorge Borkhes
His action stories and his philosophical skits are perfection itself but some of the detective stories and essays felt rather bland. Still verdict is: read it.
>>4566235
>Rimbaud
His biography is better than any novel but I cannot judge poetry because I don't know any French.
>>4566874
>Seneca
I cannot quite remember where I read it but I did like his case for docility. He did it much better than Jesus.
>>4567127
>Whitman
emotionally uplifting angry prose; I do not like the preachy tone but I guess you've gotta do him along with some Twain to understand Murica's messianism.
>>4567145
>dfw
he's a hack.
>>4567443
>Strindberg
There is a fine story about his theories by Akutagawa Ryonosuke. It is called "the handkerchief".
>>4567593
>Dylan Thomas
Listen to his readings; they are moving. It's very moving.
>>4567726
>Vitomil Zupan
That guy who wrote a story about guilt over declining your mommy's chocolate drink?
>>4567757
>Milan Kundera
I am very disappointed. Not only he wrote sappy prose for nurses but also turnt out to be a KGBist. You've got Ladislav Fuchs, Karel Chapek, Hashek, Hrabal and still you name just this treacherous russophobe. Why?
>>4567767
>Nietzsche
read him as long as you remember it's just a second reich pamphleteer and not your personal messiah.
>>4567787
>Hesse
Yay. I like his short prose but steppenwolf seemed very much like getting enraged over nothing.
>>4567864
Etgar the Carrot rules supreme. Is there any place to get his books with niqqudots?
>>4567926
>Arno Schmidt
There was one drama trying to paint a conflict between the Wehrmacht and the SS. It is not my thing at all because we've had a plenty of similar authors in Russia trying to whitewash a part of the Russian elite.
>>4567952
>Dürrenmatt
the Old Lady's Visit is an awesome book. Tells once again the sad and bitter truth about how Hobbit coziness is NOT in contraction to the principles of Mordor.
>>4567994
You best be shitting me, frog.

[tom yum king No.4568149]

>>4568096

If anything it should have been 'Dummerchen'. 'Dummchen' is akzeptabel, too. Arschkrampe is still the absolute goat, though.

[Anonymous No.4568170]

>>4568141
>not knowing rimbaud
time to learn

[Anonymous No.4568184]

>>4568141
>There was one drama trying to paint a conflict between the Wehrmacht and the SS. It is not my thing at all because we've had a plenty of similar authors in Russia trying to whitewash a part of the Russian elite.

Schmidt didn't really care about politics like that. Also, I can't remember anything like that and I've read everything except Zettel's Traum and Julia.

[Anonymous No.4568189]

>>4567923
He participated in German discourse and his life was shaped by German insitutions; if he agreed to any formal link to the nation of Germany at any time or not doesn't really matter therefore...

[❤ No.4568192]

>your nationality
Croatian
>favourite author from your country
Miroslav Krleža

[Anonymous No.4568195]

>>4568170
Is that you, OP? If you can't think of a spirited bump leave it rest, read a book. As to Rimbaud I've read a lot of French poetry including the «Boat-o Inebriated». And I've read in three more languages additionally to the original text and I still cannot tell if rimbaud is a decent poet or not. Poetry does work except in the wider context of the common language of the day. Is «gaspiller» a pretty word? I just associate it with «gespült». How can I tell if it is good? I liked the German «Ebrious Ship» by Brecht. Nabokov's Russian «Drunken Ship», however, was just pompous and silly like something written by a teen.
>>4568184
My bad. I mixed him up with Zuckmayer, i think. Didn't Arno write something post-apocalyptic?

[Anonymous No.4568199]

>Llamaland
>Ribeyro

[Anonymous No.4568212]

>>4567923
Nicski was a Polish noble

[Anonymous No.4568214]

>>4568195
He wrote "Schwarze Spiegel" ("Black Mirror"?). A guy loots cities for books and is glad everyone died. Until he finds a gf.

[Anonymous No.4568215]

>>4568212
He was prussian.

[Anonymous No.4568217]

>>4568192
Does your name start with an 'A'?

[❤ No.4568223]

>>4568217
No, it does not

[Anonymous No.4568225]

>>4568141
>>4568195
are you schizophrenic or something?

[Anonymous No.4568228]

>>4568195
>Is that you, OP?
i'm OP wasn't me

i'm satisfied with my thread as-is, only samefag in extreme desparation

[Anonymous No.4568230]

>Canetti was not german
>Kafka was not german
Kleist was german, right?

[Anonymous No.4568233]

>>4568215
If we're talking about how he perceived himself he was a Polish nobleman. That he states in «why I am so wise»
>>4568225
elaborate.

[Anonymous No.4568235]

>>4568230
There was a Germany?

[Anonymous No.4568239]

>>4568235
I am not sure.

I mean, Kleist hated the french. I think. So there must have been something that was german.

[Anonymous No.4568243]

>Nation

Faroe Islands

>Author

All of the ones in the pic but especially Janus Djurhuus, the one on the far left.

[Anonymous No.4568244]

>>4568239
>of german nationality
debatable. the idea of nationalism and thinking in terms of belonging is a 19-th century thing. i'm pretty sure he saw himself as part of the german people tho

[Anonymous No.4568245]

>>4568149
>>4568096
Thank you, Schlauchens.

[Anonymous No.4568250]

>>4568081

David Mitchell isn't too bad for a modern English writer but on the subject of Stephen Fry I think he's vastly overrated by the public as an intellectual, sure he does nice panel shows. I just don't see the fuss about him.

[Anonymous No.4568252]

>>4568149
>>4568096
>>4568245
"Dummchen" is used for naive females. "Schlauchen" reads as "hosing" or "exhausting".

huehuehue

[Anonymous No.4568254]

>>4568244
Well, this thread is about people of german nationality, but then all germans are pretty much fucked.

[Anonymous No.4568259]

>>4568254
this is relevant how

[Anonymous No.4568261]

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't know many Scottish authors

[Anonymous No.4568266]

>>4568261
craigyferg

[Anonymous No.4568267]

>>4568259
Well, there are germans on /lit/, but many great german authors didn't really have a german nationality.

[Anonymous No.4568273]

>>4568261
Hugh MacDiarmid, if you can count poets.

If not. Alasdair Gray will suffice.

[Anonymous No.4568274]

>>4568261
Robert Louis Stevenson
Irvine Welsh

I don't know many either.

[Anonymous No.4568279]

>>4568267
still don't get it.
> 1st post: german nationality =/= german people
> 2nd: this thread is about german nationality (it's about any nationality really but anyways, moving on) but then all germans are pretty much fucked (what's that got to do with anything)
> 3rd: what
> 4th: there are germans on /lit/ (okay) but many g. authors hadn't g. nationality (true, but how does that relate to germans on /lit/, germans being fucked, or this thread being about german nationality (which it isn't))

i'm not mad or anything just really confused

[Anonymous No.4568281]

>iran

pic related

>sadegh hedayat

his masterpiece is in /lit/ charts. The Blind Owl.

[Anonymous No.4568283]

>>4568281
dat nose

when i see semites i always wonder if that's how japs and chinks see european / kaukasian types

[Anonymous No.4568286]

>>4568279
What I am saying is:
>thread is about people listing their favourite authors with their nationality
>most great german authors didn't exactly have a german natonality, since germany as one nation is pretty young yadda yadda
>thus germans _in this thread_ are fucked, they can't really list most of their authors

[Anonymous No.4568287]

>>4568283

dude was a misanthropic psychopath and killed himself.

[Anonymous No.4568291]

>>4568283
>kaukasian
oh boy my germanity shows

[Anonymous No.4568292]

>>4568287
Living the dream.

[Anonymous No.4568294]

>your face when it's not joyce

[Anonymous No.4568295]

>>4568286
ahhhh it all makes sense now

[Anonymous No.4568302]

>>4568141
>That guy who wrote a story about guilt over declining your mommy's chocolate drink?
Oh hey forgot about this thread.
And no that's Ivan Cankar.
He gave us a "cankarian mother" trope, that is a mother that is willing to sacrifice everything for the well-being of her children.

Zupan is the guy who wrote a book on WWII which had more sex and philosophy in it than actual war.

[Anonymous No.4568330]

>>4568286
Which one German nation are you counting? The one after the Iron Curtain fell?

If not, Gunther Grass. And please, do not redirect me to /pol/.

[Anonymous No.4568339]

Wales
Alexander Cordell

[Anonymous No.4568342]

>>4568330
Oh, I almost forgot Günther. We share a birthday.

And I mean... since the Republic of Weimar, I guess? I mean, as a culture, Germany existed since centuries. But it wasn't really one thing until the late 19th century.

[Anonymous No.4568536]

>>4568141

[Anonymous No.4568572]

[Anonymous No.4568611]

faulkner

[Anonymous No.4568638]

Bulgaria : Dimitar Talev

[Anonymous No.4568667]

>>4568302
Oh, I haven't seen that thread. I learnt about this story from here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uNq-XWKT-U

[Anonymous No.4568672]

>>4568330
>Gunther Grass
his latest poetry suggest he's reading /pol/ himself

[Anonymous No.4568678]

>>4568274
Fergusson? Lord Biron? Burns? Walter Scott?

[Anonymous No.4568680]

>>4568572
Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten?

[Anonymous No.4568686]

Wow, we do have a lot of Krauts. What's wrong with Krautkanal?

[Anonymous No.4568697]

I wish he didn't take his racism to extremes so that people would read his work. It's wonderful..

Kalbin benim olsun diyorum çünkü mukadder
Cismin sana yetmez mi? Çabuk kalbini sök ver
Yoktur öte alemde de kurtulmaya bir yer
Mutlak seveceksin beni, bundan kaçamazsın

Ram ol bana; ruhun yeni bir aleme girsin
Yazmış kaderin: Aşkıma ömrünce esirsin
Aklınla, şuurunla, hayalinle bilirsin
Mutlak seveceksin beni, bundan kaçamazsın

[Anonymous No.4568705]

England

John Wilmot

[Anonymous No.4568750]

>>4568283
>0/edge

[Anonymous No.4568776]

Umberto Eco

[Anonymous No.4568778]

[Anonymous No.4568834]

>serbia
>tfw hate them all

[Anonymous No.4568854]

>>4568680
?

[Anonymous No.4568881]

>>4568854
Ein Märchen aus alten Zeiten

[Anonymous No.4568895]

>>4567781
mah nigga

[Anonymous No.4568901]

>>4568778
Until now I hadn't realized how attractive Melville was.

[Anonymous No.4568903]

[Anonymous No.4568913]

>>4568901
That's a painting mind so much like a selfie taken on instagram that is a very idealist version of the real thing.

[Anonymous No.4568916]

Venezuela
Fernando Paz Castillo

[Anonymous No.4568935]

since pushkin is the uncontested number one of russian lit, i'd go for what i think is number 2

[Anonymous No.4568941]

French
Céline obviously

[Anonymous No.4568949]

>>4566129
norway, thure erik lund

[Anonymous No.4568960]

>>4568935
>pushkin is the uncontested number one of russian lit
ты что m8

[Anonymous No.4568969]

Same as you, OP.

[Anonymous No.4568971]

>>4567571
IF he was unattractive? He looks retarded.

[Anonymous No.4569038]

American.

Robert Frost at the moment. Amazing eye for things to write about and make poems from.

[Anonymous No.4569040]

Canada - I don't know any

[Anonymous No.4569044]

>>4567571
niggas don't know about that Season in Hell or the soldier with the hole in his head or the "colored plates" or the scholars in their wooden seats...

Also, for lovers of rimby who don't really...read much...
WATCH TOTAL ECLIPSE WITH DI CAPRIO IN IT GREAT MOVIE ABOUT RIMBAUD AND VERLAINE'S RELATIONSHIP

[Anonymous No.4569048]

>>4568141
hey man, no one in the thread said "judge and respond to everyone before you" just read and say something if you must, not just because you feel like saying something.

purpose in writing, /lit/ lesson 101 for the day,
get these wasted words unsaid

[Anonymous No.4569066]

England
Julian Barnes

[Anonymous No.4569121]

>>4567443
min neger

[Anonymous No.4569152]

Poland
Leopold Tyrmand

[Anonymous No.4569156]

>>4569044
it's not a great movie you fagtron

[Anonymous No.4570279]

How pleb am I?

[Anonymous No.4570283]

>>4570279
>forgetting my image

[Anonymous No.4571171]

>>4568192
Koja ti je najbolja knjiga od Krleže? Nisam nikad bio zainteresiran za hrvatsku književnost pa bi htio početi.

[Anonymous No.4571179]

>>4567728
He exists on a separate plane from the rest.

[Anonymous No.4571228]

>>4570283
Haven't read him yet, though my father in law who is extremely well read claims he's the best.

Where should I start?
it's uncomfortable as fuck to speak english to a brazilian on the internets

[Anonymous No.4571250]

Germany.
Gernhardt counts, right?

[Anonymous No.4571286]

[Anonymous No.4571300]

>>4568697
lol he's a mediocre poet at best and a shitty novelist,there are surpising amounts of good poets in turkey and you choose this fucker?

[Anonymous No.4571348]

Australia

[Anonymous No.4571349]

>>4571348
>australia
>literature

Yeah right.

[Anonymous No.4571350]

>>4567596
>>4567596
>>4567596
pls be in bratislava

[Anonymous No.4571352]

>>4571349
Fuck off ya filthy seppo cunt. What the bloody hell has your shithouse country ever done? Fuck all.

[Anonymous No.4571371]

>>4571352
>implying I'm american

Stay mad you silly pleb you.

[Anonymous No.4571377]

>>4571349
I thought this until I read:
-Might is Right
-Everything by Nick Cave

[Anonymous No.4571383]

I'm Egyptian, so naturally it would Naguib Mafouz.

[Anonymous No.4571603]

>>4571300
and they are?

[Anonymous No.4571737]

>>4568141

lolwut, Kundera and Čapek KGBists? What are you smoking man?

[Anonymous No.4572098]

Brazilian , Jose De Alencar.

[Anonymous No.4572124]

>>4566129

I'm Irish.

Joyce, obviously.

[Anonymous No.4572133]

>>4571737
Chapek is fine but Kundera was involved with state security. There was a scandal about that some years ago.

[Anonymous No.4572135]

Finland.

> Favourite celebrated author: Mika Waltari
> Favourite contemporary author: Jaakko Yli-Juonikas
> Favourite poet: Unto Kailas
> Favourite dramaturgist: Mika Myllyaho

[Anonymous No.4572148]

>>4566938
I'm sorry but your first world angst is nothing compared to the lack of proper literature coming from St. Kitts

[Anonymous No.4572157]

>>4572135
is mika's 'wanderer' good? and can i just read the wanderer without reading the first book -the adventurer, if i remember correctly- or would i be missing too much?

[Anonymous No.4572160]

>>4566129
American.
Robert Frost.

[Anonymous No.4572322]

>>4568294
Best Irish writer there was

[Anonymous No.4572454]

>>4566129
> Galician
> Ricardo Carvalho Calero

[Anonymous No.4572462]

>>4572454
>galician
>nationality

You're spanish, you cunt.

[Anonymous No.4572473]

>>4572462
LOL, back to siesta, twat

[Anonymous No.4572482]

>>4571603
Yahya Kemal Beyatlı
Nazım Hikmet
Özdemir Asaf
Behçet Necatigil
Turgut Uyar
İlhan Berk
Edip Cansever
Ece Ayhan
Cemal Süreya
these are just my faves not counting the ottoman divan poetry

i have a special fondess for "ikinci yeni"

The poets of this movement, soon known as İkinci Yeni ("Second New") opposed themselves to the social aspects prevalent in the poetry of Nâzım Hikmet and the Garip poets, and instead—partly inspired by the disruption of language in such Western movements as Dada and Surrealism—sought to create a more abstract poetry through the use of jarring and unexpected language, complex images, and the association of ideas. To some extent, the movement can be seen as bearing some of the characteristics of postmodern literature

[Anonymous No.4572507]

>>4572157
The Wanderer is not his best, but all his translated works could be considered something short of classics. You can read it without The Adventurer, but uh, some of the development would be a bit hazy without the background. I read both The Roman and The Dark Angel without even opening their prequels and still enjoyed both although later on I enjoyed Dark Angels prequel more than the actual novel.

I think The Adventurer has a really, really dull start with Medieval Finland, Birth of Sweden and University of Paris stuff, but once Peasant's War, Reformation, Witch-Trials and ascendancy of Charles V start, its turns to a gripping narrative.

[Anonymous No.4572570]

>Slovenian
Tough choice, but I’ll have to go with Srečko Kosovel.

[Anonymous No.4572598]

>>4572135
>Yli-Juonikas

neekerini

[Anonymous No.4572607]

>>4572598
> Will never be translated
oh times

[Anonymous No.4572615]

>>4567161
Erico Verissimo

the only answer.

[Anonymous No.4572617]

>>4572607
Neuromaani is pretty much untranslatable, but I can't see why his other books couldn't work in English.

[Anonymous No.4572629]

>>4572617
My reasoning is more based on economic realities: even best-selling Finnish books like Missä Kuljimme Kerran or Vadelmavenepakolainen get a Swedish and a Russian translation at best.

Also Valvoja's prose at least is so dense that I'd wager it being untranslatable since about half of the prose is practically just puns.

[Anonymous No.4572664]

>>4572135
After Waltari and Hellaakoski no one else warrants a mention.

[Anonymous No.4572786]

>>4572482
ikinci yeni a shit.
>put meaningless group of words together
>POETRY!
inb4 2deep4you

[Anonymous No.4573038]

>dutch
>remco campert

[Anonymous No.4574089]

>>4572133

If Kundera had been a KGBist, he would had stayed in Czechoslovakia. But he wasn't, so he fled to France and lives there to this day.

[Anonymous No.4574090]

>>4568971
The dude is fucking beautiful.

[Anonymous No.4574140]

>>4574089
He had his times as a KGB snitch and he had his times as a prosecuted dissident. That is what makes him such a hypocrite.

http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1851772,00.html

[Anonymous No.4574188]

>>4568192
ti si feget
B ^)

[❤ No.4574211]

>>4571171
Mogao bi početi s Gospodom Glembajevima ili Povratkom Filipa Latinovicza

>Nisam nikad bio zainteresiran za hrvatsku književnost pa bi htio početi.
Srednja škola?

>>4574188
You too~

[Anonymous No.4574253]

No strayans with the arch patrician? Shame, really.

[Anonymous No.4574265]

>>4568901

[Anonymous No.4574266]

Russian;
Dostoyevsky, obviously.

[Anonymous No.4574270]

>>4574266
>obviously
school curriculum guy whose strawman atheism is behind all of our middle class murderers? why?

[Anonymous No.4574280]

>>4574211
Hvala na preporuci

>Srednja škola?
>implying da mi čitanje lektire nije bila najodbojnija stvar ikad
>implying da nisam cilu srednju provea na WoWu

[Anonymous No.4574285]

>>4568778
>>4568901
>>4574265
this is off topic but was melville in love with hawthorne? i mean i read his letters and it was so sweet and gay

[Anonymous No.4574313]

>>4574270
>strawman atheism

You sure you're reading the right person?

[Anonymous No.4574317]

here is the letter by the way
>>4574285
[1? June 1851]

My Dear Hawthorne,
. . . In a week or so, I go to New York, to bury myself in a third-story room, and work and slave on my "Whale" while it is driving through the press. . . . It is a rainy morning; so I am indoors, and all work suspended. I feel cheerfully disposed, and therefore I write a little bluely. Would the Gin were here! If ever, my dear Hawthorne, in the eternal times that are to come, you and I shall sit down in Paradise, in some little shady corner by ourselves; and if we shall by any means be able to smuggle a basket of champagne there (I won't believe in a Temperance Heaven), and if we shall then cross our celestial legs in the celestial grass that is forever tropical, and strike our glasses and our heads together, till both musically ring in concert, – then, O my dear fellow-mortal, how shall we pleasantly discourse of all the things manifold which now so distress us, – when all the earth shall be but reminiscence, yea, its final dissolution an antiquity. Then shall songs be composed as when wars are over; humorous, comic songs, – "Oh, when I lied in that queer little hole called the world," or, "Oh, when I toiled and sweated below," or, "Oh, when I knocked and was knocked in the fight" – yes, let us look forward to such things. Let us swear that, though now we sweat, yet it is because of the dry heat which is indispensable to the nourishment of the vine which is to bear the grapes that are to give us the champagne hereafter. . . .

Pittsfield, Monday afternoon
[17? November 1851]

[Anonymous No.4574318]

>>4574317
Your letter [praising Moby Dick] was handed me last night on the road going to Mr Morewood's, and I read it there. Had I been at home, I would have sat down at once and answered it. In my divine magnanimities are spontaneous and instantaneous – catch them while you can. The world goes round, and the other side comes up. So now I can't write what I felt. But I felt pantheistic then – your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God's. A sense of unspeakable security is in me this moment, on account of your having understood the book. I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. . . .
Whence come you, Hawthorne? By what right do you drink from my flagon of life? And when I put it to my lips – lo, they are yours and not mine. I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. Now, sympathizing with the paper, my angel turns over another page. You did not care a penny for the book. But, now and then as you read, you understood the pervading thought that impelled the book – and that you praised. Was it not so? You were archangel enough to despise the imperfect body, and embrace the soul. Once you hugged the ugly Socrates because you saw the flame in the mouth, and heard the rushing of the demon, – the familiar, – and recognized the sound; for you have heard it in your own solitudes. . . .
If the world was entirely made up of Magians, I'll tell you what I should do. I should have a paper-mill established at one end of the house, and so have an endless riband of foolscap rolling in upon my desk; and upon that endless riband I should write a thousand – a million – billion thoughts, all under the form of a letter to you. The divine magnet is on you, and my magnet responds. Which is the biggest? A foolish question – they are One.
H.

[Anonymous No.4574322]

Över norden jag härskar.

Eyvind Johnson, no contest. Strändernas Svall is amazing.