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9124730 No.9124730 [Reply] [Original]

Who is the greatest living author?

No memes please

>> No.9124735

John Barth

>> No.9124736

Muhammad

>> No.9124737

Donald J. Trump

>> No.9124743

In English?
Corncob

*vomits*

>> No.9124750

Karl Ove Knausgaard

>> No.9124759

Ari Behn

>> No.9124767

Me.

>> No.9124772

>>9124730
I need to preface my statement with the acknowledgement that the only living authors I have read are American aside from Krasznahorkai. With that said Don DeLillo has the most impressive oeurve and McCarthy has the best book. Gass probably is the most talented writer however. I wouldn't be surprised if a small area of academia and dedicated following put him up there with Proust, Kafka, Joyce, Faulkner etc...

>> No.9124780

icycalm

>> No.9124793

>>9124767
No, me.

>> No.9124803

>>9124730
Me, for my diary desu.

>> No.9124807

Someone not an Anglo who also doesn't write in English.

>> No.9124811

Idk, I don't read much contemporary fiction. I like Thomas Pynchon a lot though

>> No.9124820

Joseph McElroy

>> No.9124834

>>9124730
Adolf Hitler

>> No.9124836
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9124836

Ben Marcus LOL!

>> No.9124843

>>9124730
me

>> No.9124847

>>9124730
Beethoven

>> No.9124855

>>9124730
Gerald Murnane (maybe not THE, but he's my pick to add some variety to the suggestions)

He's basically Australia's answer to Borges, Calvino, and Sebald combined, yet he doesn't imitate either of them. His writing is its own animal.

>> No.9124882

>>9124767
fuck off tao

>> No.9124883

my diary tobeh

>> No.9124888

Alberto Arbasino

>> No.9124897

>>9124855
>He's basically Australia's answer to Borges, Calvino, and Sebald combined, yet he doesn't imitate either of them. His writing is its own animal.
How do you type this, reread what you typed, and post it without killing yourself? I know, being Australian, English is not your first language - but that is an embarrassing way to think.

>> No.9124908

>>9124897
how big is he memeing? I'm not strayan and have never heard of the guy

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>>9124897
>I know, being Australian, English is not your first language
cheeky

>> No.9124926

>>9124908
It's not his suggestion I have a problem with.