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Any good modern (post 1940) British lit?

>> No.9853120

Nope, none exists.

>> No.9853146

I noticed that the UK just seemed to stop writing books after 1948

>> No.9853164

>>9853146
Do you count 1984? It was written in '48 but published in '49

>> No.9853167

>>9853164

yeah

>> No.9853172

Graham Greene is alright

also Irvine Welsh

>> No.9853234

Britain spiritually died in 1914 tbqhwy

>> No.9853796

N O
O

>> No.9853833

Lord of the Flies, if u didn't read it in school.

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>>9853117

>> No.9853886

Well what do you like?

>> No.9853897

>>9853234
>Spiritual death-1914
>Political death-1956
>Physical death-????

>> No.9854013

>>9853897

what happened in 1956

>> No.9854024

>>9853117
Uh, Modernism is pre-1940 retard

>> No.9854027

>>9854013
Suez m8

>> No.9854028

>>9854013
Not him, but I would think the Suez Crisis

>> No.9854204

>>9853117
Beckett was Irish and he wrote in French, and translated most of his works into English.

>> No.9854210

>Britain
>Good literature other than Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Yeats and Burns
Hilarious.

>> No.9854322

Phillip Larkin
Graham Greene
Jonathan Bowden
Mervyn Peake
Kingsley Amis
Will Self
Harold Pinter
Ted Hughes
John le Carré
J. G. Ballard

>> No.9854415

Richard Dawkins

>> No.9854426

The French Lieutenant's Woman

>> No.9854440

ZADIE SMITH

>> No.9854451

I unironically like Nick Hornby.

>>9854322
These are good besides Will Self (haven't read Peake), but you might as well add some of the actual moderns like Waugh and Auden who kept working past 1940 if you're going to include a lot of those other ones.

>>9854440
while we're at it, AS byatt should get more love here. she's more fucked up than us and better at it.

>> No.9854780

Graham Greene is british isn't he? idk i only read the quiet american but that was a danm fine book

>> No.9856448

>>9853117
J.L. Carr
B.S. Johnson
Christine Rose-Brooks
Anna Kavan
John Fowles

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>>9854322
T H E P L A N T S

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>>9856469
LIBERALISM IS MORAL SYPHILIS

AND I'M STEPPING OVER IT

>> No.9856518

I assume half of you will lose your shit over this but Ian McEwan has written some decent stuff

>> No.9856740

>>9856518
I've read Atonement and it truly is the definition of a 3 star read, I'll give him that

>> No.9857459

>>9853117
Trainspotting and Filth by Irvine Welsh if you reckon you can hack it being written in phonetic Edinburgh slang

>> No.9857474

Salman Rushdie