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Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:24:43 2016 No.8577830 [Reply] [Original]

Now that he's gone, who is the best living writer?

INB4 Pynchon. No.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:29:05 2016 No.8577841 It is Pynchon. He's the writer alive with the best resume.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:30:24 2016 No.8577844 File: 65 KB, 620x372, wolfe.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8577841 I beg to differ

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:31:17 2016 No.8577849 me

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:33:55 2016 No.8577853 >>8577841 DeLillo is superior

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:35:50 2016 No.8577858 >>8577844 The fuck's wrong with you? This isn't even funny you genre-shit fucking retard pleb Fuck off

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:37:38 2016 No.8577865 >>8577853 He appeals to a certain type of reader, namely folks who like to look down their noses at certain aspects of mainstream modernity. But best? Hardly.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:41:26 2016 No.8577870 >>8577858 >Muh allusions! Allusions are the alpha and omega of literature! If an author doesn't jack off to his own erudition for 700 pages, it's genre trash! FTFY

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:41:41 2016 No.8577872 File: 25 KB, 460x276, 1448497320041.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:50:12 2016 No.8577883 mccarthy and pynchon are at the top. maybe vollmann is close. best underdog is michael cisco

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:53:04 2016 No.8577887 File: 35 KB, 512x512, iu[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Based God

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:54:22 2016 No.8577888 IDK but it was never Eco.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:55:07 2016 No.8577891 >>8577883 >mccarthy and pynchon You could have said Roth and DeLillo as well to emulate Bloom even more.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:57:37 2016 No.8577894 It's Harold Bloom.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 02:57:54 2016 No.8577895 No love for Roth? Rushdie? McEwan? Amis? Gass? Krasznahorkai? Coetzee? Koontz?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 03:01:43 2016 No.8577901 Houellebecq

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 03:43:13 2016 No.8577997 >>8577870 >Allusions are the alpha and omega of literature! kys

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 03:44:15 2016 No.8577999 tao lin

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 04:39:05 2016 No.8578077 McElroy tho

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 04:43:02 2016 No.8578084 Roubaud

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 04:48:24 2016 No.8578090 >all these americans

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 04:49:16 2016 No.8578093 >>8578090 It's pretty obnoxious but you have to remember that this is an American website.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 04:54:22 2016 No.8578100 >>8577888 Uhhh, what?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 04:57:07 2016 No.8578105 Yeah it's Krasznahorkai. I don't know why /lit/ doesn't suck his dick more, he writes old school verse for modern times. Satantango is fucken beautiful.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 04:59:32 2016 No.8578107 >>8578105 And Seibo is possibly his magnum opus sooooooooooooooooooo

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 05:08:23 2016 No.8578120 File: 72 KB, 920x477, frown-test-27.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8577894

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 05:19:43 2016 No.8578136 >>8577844 came here to post this beautiful smiling head. legit, he's not perfect, but he's better than anyone else on the market. >>8577870 >implying wolfe doesn't do this lel

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 05:30:39 2016 No.8578152 >>8578100 OP is implying that Eco was the best living author when he was alive, but he never was.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 05:44:40 2016 No.8578173 >>8578105 Will they give him the Nobel this year guys?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 05:45:39 2016 No.8578175 >>8578173 no. it's going to some estonian female you've never heard of

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 05:59:38 2016 No.8578198 File: 7 KB, 194x259, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8577830

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 06:04:55 2016 No.8578205 Stephen king anyone?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 06:10:11 2016 No.8578210 File: 331 KB, 1365x2048, Krasznahorkai.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8577883 >best underdog is michael cisco this guy imo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 06:17:47 2016 No.8578226 >>8578210 >bald Dropped. Thank God I was only one chapter in.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 06:19:56 2016 No.8578230 >>8578105 This, thank god I can read him in original, finally being from a backwater country actually payed off. >>8578173 >implying the nobel goes to people who deserve it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 06:20:00 2016 No.8578231 >>8578226 haha yea fucking cueballs think they can write. what a joke

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 06:37:59 2016 No.8578277 it's Roth you idiots

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 07:29:30 2016 No.8578374 >>8578277 he's retired

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 07:33:11 2016 No.8578382 >>8577858 The mark of true retardation is judging books based on perceived genre, instead of quality of the novel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 07:38:37 2016 No.8578388 >>8577841 >Pynchon Not even the worst writer. The very definition of average.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 07:51:46 2016 No.8578417 File: 75 KB, 533x800, mieville_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8578231 >implying

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 07:54:40 2016 No.8578421 >>8578417 yeah, no

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 17:04:54 2016 No.8580008 I looked up this guy Kraszhanahourakami, and all his books are like 100 pages long. Where's his masterpiece? I would accept a book even 480 pages long, but there's nothing. He writes these femme little pamphlets.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 17:10:37 2016 No.8580026 >>8577853 lol fuck no Regardless, Barth is the greatest living author

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 17:14:30 2016 No.8580036 >>8580008 You didn't actually look him up.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 17:16:54 2016 No.8580046 >>8580026 Barth is probably the funniest living author, but I'm not sure he's THAT good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 18:25:38 2016 No.8580315 >>8580026 Barth is some cloistered little autist writing mannered books that appeal only to himself.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 18:28:27 2016 No.8580325 >>8577844 This

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 18:32:13 2016 No.8580345 Oe is the best. >>8578417 >mieville no, no, no.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 18:33:34 2016 No.8580351 >>8577841 first post best post.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 18:38:36 2016 No.8580366 >>8578152 We all know he was, it's a fact. We're talking about NOW.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 18:43:43 2016 No.8580385 >>8577895 so much anglophone

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 19:09:42 2016 No.8580474 >>8580036 Yes, I did, as evidenced by the fact that I know he only writes dainty little books with no meat on them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 19:46:28 2016 No.8580598 File: 35 KB, 216x216, IMG_0765.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] chabon

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 19:50:10 2016 No.8580608 It's Wolfe. Was before eco died too

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 19:52:06 2016 No.8580610 >>8580315 No way. He fuckin rules.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 19:53:09 2016 No.8580613 >>8580474 That ain't true, though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 19:54:12 2016 No.8580616 Has anyone here read Javier Marias? I see him mentioned often as one of the best living writers.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 20:37:53 2016 No.8580737 >>8580613 All right, then, so point me to his big novel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 20:43:11 2016 No.8580756 >greatest living author >posts italian dan brown wew

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 20:46:15 2016 No.8580766 File: 184 KB, 202x121, microaggression.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8577830 >Saying no to Pynchon read more, junior. And it's not just one, it's several, I happen to be looking at the definitive list right now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 20:47:16 2016 No.8580768 >>8577895 >Koonts ??????

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 20:51:34 2016 No.8580783 >>8580756 more like borges and calvino's retarded kid

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 21:01:30 2016 No.8580809 >>8580737 His novel most recently released in English is 400 pages long

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 21:03:14 2016 No.8580815 >>8577853 get real

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 3 21:08:30 2016 No.8580823 >>8580008 No one fall for this bait.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 04:08:11 2016 No.8581841 you're right pynchon isnt actually alive

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 06:09:58 2016 No.8582034 >>8577895 >Koontz? >reddit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 06:15:17 2016 No.8582041 >>8577870 >erudition oh, learnedness!

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 06:21:26 2016 No.8582047 >INB4 Pynchon REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 4 06:25:47 2016 No.8582053 File: 1.48 MB, 1199x1800, salmanrushdie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Not decapitated yet, boys

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