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What books released in the past ~10 years do you believe will become important and influential, or hold the same literary merits as classic literature?

>> No.6683483

Anything by László Krasznahorkai. His talent is unreal.

It took ten years to translate Satantango just to get it right.

>> No.6683494

>>6683483
>It took ten years to translate Satantango just to get it right.
lol

>> No.6683495

>>6683427
None, literature has entered a malaise era.

>> No.6683601

Tao Lin for sure.

>> No.6683624

Jack Nance isn't gonna be in the new season of Twin Peaks. :-( I guess they can say Pete died from the bomb at the end of the second season, anyway.

>> No.6683636

Which books do I believe SHOULD become important and influential, or which books do I believe others will consider important and influential?

Books others will consider to be modern classics:
The Hunger Games
The Maze Runner
The Fault in our Stars
Twilight
The Book Thief
and other turgid YA novels and insipid middle-of-the-road novels for people who can't read well.

>> No.6683649

>>6683636
>Books others will consider to be modern classics:

There are plenty of crappy romance novels in the 19th century that may have sold well but are forgotten now. I don't see why those books should be an exception.

>> No.6683652

>>6683636
>The Book Thief
100% guarantee this will be taught next to The Giver

>> No.6683653

>>6683427
As far as literature goes, absolutely none of them. As far as YA and genreshit goes, probably some of the garbo that's gotten movies in the past decade.

>> No.6683654

>>6683636
>Books others will consider to be modern classics:
>turgid YA novels and insipid middle-of-the-road novels for people who can't read well
Why do people actually think this? Those books are just fads. The kind of people 100 years from now who like those kinds of books aren't going to be reading books from 100 years before their time, but new schlock that gets published in their own times

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6683658

H o w ' s A n n i e ? H a h a h a h a

>> No.6683661

>>6683653
There will always be people who care about literature. Contemporary authors like Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Javier Marias are going to be read for a long time

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>>6683427
pic related

>> No.6683674

>>6683427
Houellebecq

>> No.6683696

Those who say there isn't anyone of worth right now are wrong. There's always someone, it just takes some time for them to pop up

>> No.6683730

2666
My Struggle
Your Face Tommorow

>> No.6683759

>>6683696
Honestly there are probably dozens, maybe even as many as a hundred, but it's hard to pick them out because so much literature is being produced today, far more than ever before.

>> No.6683770

>>6683730
>Your Face Tommorow
What is this like? Been hearing a lot about it lately, so I'm curious.