These are the 10 greatest writers of the 20th century, but who is the best of them?
These are the 10 greatest writers of the 20th century, but who is the best of them?
Jack Ortiz
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Dominic Torres
Henry James
Aaron Reed
DFW
Henry Nelson
rolling
Austin Fisher
Who are the two between Calvino and Beckett?
Cooper Cruz
Gaddis and Bernhard newfriend
John Ross
Gaddis and Bernhard. Neither of them deserve to be there.
Charles Ortiz
>top 10 list
>has an american
Parker Robinson
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Bentley Clark
>No Eugenio Montale
Are you fucking kidding? Get out and read more, you fucking shithead.
Luis Butler
I only know Gaddis from name desu. Never read either of them, what makes them stand out over Hamsun, Woolf, or the various Boom authors left out?
Chase Scott
>what makes them stand out
Nothing.
Aaron Evans
Cringe
John Taylor
Musil
Camden Green
That's truly cringe, I suggest you delete your thread.
Adrian Lopez
and Gadda
Adrian Parker
Mann is better
Robert Thomas
>gaddis
disgusting
Connor Bennett
Tyler Cox
Juan Reyes
This.
And Land.
Jose Sullivan
Out of OP's pic definitely George W Bush
Jason Watson
based
Colton Smith
So Memehard but no Faulkner? lmao
Andrew Martin
>no Blanchot
discarded
Nicholas James
>corncobby chronicles are the best work of the 20th century
Tyler Butler
Ulrich is the best literary creation of the 20th century
Michael Clark
Where's Pynchon?
Ryan Perez
Daily reminder to all non-italians anons that Gadda is the best italian writer of the XXth century
Samuel Mitchell
I think it's fair not to know what authors looked like outside of a few that everyone should know (Joyce, Pynchon, Proust, Plato, Pessoa, DFW, Kafka, Beckett, Borges, Melville, Nabokov, Tolstoy, Cervantes, Dosto, Dante, Homer, Hemingway, Woolf, Dickinson, TS Eliot etc)
If I've read all of Cortazar's ouevre, am I a newfriend for not recognising him in a picture?
Julian Ross
Is he worth reading in translation though? A quick Google tells me that he first and foremost played with language so I'm not optimistic, but then again people seem to read Ulysses in translation and not find it pointless so it's not impossible.
Isaiah Anderson
I can't tell, never tried to read him in translation nor do I know if translations even exist.
Blake Evans
They do exist, but part of the value is obviously lost.
I think you should read him either way, and not only That Awful Mess, but also The Experience of Pain, which is less experimental (but equally great, if not greater). Calvino said that Gadda is on par with Musil, and in fact they are very similar writers.
Isaiah Butler
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Connor Davis
Not listed in pic. It's Ayn Rand.
Josiah Clark
redpill me on musil what am i in for?
Ayden Reyes
>Implying I know who any of them are by their faces
>Implying I should know what an author looks like
Ryder Scott
all of them are memed here you should know them