Kafka, Franz: The Trial (1915)
Stendhal: The Red and the Black (1830)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russia, 1821): "Bratia Karamazovy/ Brothers Karamazov" (1880)
Mann, Thomas: Buddenbrooks (1901)
James, Henry: The Golden Bowl
Joyce, James: Ulysses
Francois Rabelais (France, 1494): "Gargantua et Pantagruel" (1552)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain, 1547): "El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha" (1615)
Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margherita (1940)
Witkiewicz, Stanislaw: Insatiability
Bronte, Emily: Wuthering Heights
Nabokov, Vladimir: Ada
Pynchon, Thomas: Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Gogol, Nikolaj: Dead Souls (1852)
Faulkner, William: Light in August
Dostoevskij, Fyodor: The Idiot (1869)
Musil: The Man Without Qualities(1933)
Woolf, Virginia: To the Lighthouse
Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo
Tolstoy, Lev: War and Peace
Celine: Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
GarciaMarquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)
Zola, Emile: Germinal (1885)
Canetti: Autodafe (1935)
Balzac, Honore: Eugene Grandet (1833)
Jose, Saramago: The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984)
Svevo, Italo: Coscienza di Zeno/ Zeno's Consciousness (1923)
Bernhard, Thomas: "Korrektur/ Correction" (1975)
Goncarov, Ivan: Oblomov (1859)
Carpentier, Alejo: "Lost Steps" (1953)
Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary (1856)
Gaddis, William: The Recognitions
Pavese, Cesare: Luna e i Falo'/ Moon and Bonfires (1950)
Krasznahorkai, Laszlo: Satantango (1985)
Cortazar, Julio: Rayuela (1963)
Vargas-Llosa, Mario: "Conversacion en la Catedral" (1969)
Gide: Les Faux-Monnayeurs (1925)
Barth, John: Giles Goat Boy
Murakami, Haruki: "Sekai no Owari to Ha-doboirudo Wanda-rando/ Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (1985)
Camus: "The Stranger" (1942)
Kis, Danilo: Clessidra (1972)
Schnitzler, Arthur: Traumnovelle/ Dream Story (1925)
Lem: Solaris (1961)
Peter Nadas (1942): "Emlekiratok Konyve/ Book of Memoirs" (1986)
Melville: "Moby Dick" (1851)
Marcel Proust: "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" (1922)
Rushdie: "Midnight's Children" (1980)
Bellow, Saul: "Herzog" (1964)
Pavic, Milroad: "The Dictionary of the Khazars" (1984)
Donoso, Jose: "El Obsceno Pajaro de la Noche" (1970) ++
Lessing, Doris: "The Golden Notebook" (1962)
Hrabal, Bohumil: "Prilis Hlucna Samota/ Too Loud a Solitude (1976)
Tanizaki, Junichiro: "Sasameyuki/ Makioka Sisters" (1948)
Gadda: Cognizione del Dolore (1963)
Maybe not the greatest but also favorites:
Gombrowicz: Pornography (1960)
PerezGaldos, Benito: Nazarin (1895)
Kundera, Milan: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1985)
Abe Kobo: Woman in the Dunes (1962)
Buzzati, Dino: Deserto dei tartari (1940)
Unamuno, Miguel: Nebla (1914)
Oe, Kenzaburo: Silent Cry (1967)
Singer, Isaac: Moskat Family (1950)
Scaruffi best novels of all time
Scaruffi is based af
William Gass 50 literary pillars
1. Plato’s Timaeus
2. Aristotle’s The Nicomachean Ethics
3. Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War
4. Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: Or the Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil
5. Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
6. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
7. Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space
8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria
9. Paul Valéry’s Eupalinos, ou l’architecte
10. Sir Thomas Malory’s Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur
11. Sir Thomas Browne’s Urne Burial
12. Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
13. Virginia Woolf’s Selected Diaries
14. Ford Maddox Ford’s Parade's End (the Tietjens tetralogy)
15. William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
16. Ben Johnson’s The Alchemist
17. James Joyce’s Ulysses
18. James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
19. Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds
20. Beckett’s How It Is
21. Beckett’s Ping
22. José Lezama’s Paradiso
23. Julio Cortázar’s Hopscotch
24. Jorge Luis Borges’s Labyrinths
25. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
26. Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor and Other Stories
27. Herman Broch’s The Sleepwalkers
28. Italo Svevo’s Confessions of Zeno
29. Italo Svevo’s Zeno's Conscience (in William Weaver’s marvelous recent translation)
30. Gustave Flaubert’s Letters
31. Gustave Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pecuchet
32. Stendhal’s The Red and the Black
33. Colette’s Break of Day
34. John Donne’s Poems and Sermons
35. Friedrich Hölderlin’s Hymns
36. Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés
37. Ezra Pound’s Personae
38. William Butler Yeat’s The Tower
39. Wallace Steven’s Harmonium
40. Henry James’s The Golden Bowl
41. Henry James’s Notebooks
42. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
43. Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider
44. Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives
45. William Gaddis’s The Recognitions
46. John Hawkes’s The Lime Twig
47. Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
48. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies
49. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus
50. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters
Borges selects 74 boks for your personal iibrary
1. Stories by Julio Cortázar (not sure if this refers to Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, or neither)
2. & 3. The Apocryphal Gospels
4. Amerika and The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
5. The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery by G.K. Chesterton
6. & 7. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
8. The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
9. The Desert of the Tartars by Dino Buzzati
10. Peer Gynt and Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Mandarin: And Other Stories by Eça de Queirós
12. The Jesuit Empire by Leopoldo Lugones
13. The Counterfeiters by André Gide
14. The Time Machine and The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
15. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
16. & 17. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
18. Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
19. The Great God Brown and Other Plays, Strange Interlude, and Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
20. Tales of Ise by Ariwara no Narihara
21. Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, and Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
22. The Tragic Everyday, The Blind Pilot, and Words and Blood by Giovanni Papini
23. The Three Impostors
24. Songs of Songs tr. by Fray Luis de León
25. An Explanation of the Book of Job tr. by Fray Luis de León
26. The End of the Tether and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
27. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
28. Essays & Dialogues by Oscar Wilde
29. Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
30. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
31. Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
32. On the Nature of Animals by Claudius Elianus
33. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
34. The Temptation of St. Antony by Gustave Flaubert
35. Travels by Marco Polo
36. Imaginary lives by Marcel Schwob
37. Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, and Candide by George Bernard Shaw
38. Macus Brutus and The Hour of All by Francisco de Quevedo
39. The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
40. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
41. The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
42. The Lesson of the Master, The Figure in the Carpet, and The Private Life by Henry James
43. & 44. The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus by Herdotus
45. Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
46. Tales by Rudyard Kipling
47. Vathek by William Beckford
48. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
49. The Professional Secret & Other Texts by Jean Cocteau
50. The Last Days of Emmanuel Kant and Other Stories by Thomas de Quincey
51. Prologue to the Work of Silverio Lanza by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
52. The Thousand and One Nights
53. New Arabian Nights and Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
54. Salvation of the Jews, The Blood of the Poor, and In the Darkness by Léon Bloy
55. The Bhagavad Gita and The Epic of Gilgamesh
56. Fantastic Stories by Juan José Arreola
57. Lady into Fox, A Man in the Zoo, and The Sailor's Return by David Garnett
58. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
59. Literary Criticism by Paul Groussac
60. The Idols by Manuel Mujica Láinez
61. The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
62. Complete Poetry by William Blake
63. Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
64. Poetical Works by Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
65. Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
66. The Aeneid by Virgil
67. Stories by Voltaire
68. An Experiment with Time by J.W. Dunne
69. An Essay on Orlando Furioso by Atilio Momigliano
70. & 71. The Varieties of Religious Experience and The Study of Human Nature by William James
72. Egil's Saga by Snorri Sturluson
73. The Book of the Dead
74. & 75. The Problem of Time by J. Alexander Gunn
>Murakami
>best anything
OHNONONO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>Hard Boiled Wonderland over 1Q84
>W*thering Heights
*distant screams*
>1. Stories by Julio Cortázar (not sure if this refers to Hopscotch, Blow-Up and Other Stories, or neither)
Hopscotch is a novel, not a short story collection, retard. It obviously refers to the collection that includes House Taken Over, (which Borges originally edited and published in his magazine), that is, Blow-up and Other Stories.
i like wuthering heights :(
someone post more of these lists
It’s crazy what a fucking ego this guy had
Scaruffi is a fucking joke. He still has Loveless as a 9/10
Roberto Bolaño's favorite books (that he could come up with in a Playboy interview):
Don Quixote, by Cervantes
Moby-Dick, by Melville
Borges' entire body of work
Hopscotch, by Cortázar
A Confederacy of Dunces, by Toole
Nadja, by André Breton
Jacques Vaché's Letters
All the "Ubu" plays by Alfred Jarry
Life a User's Manual by Georges Perec
The Trial and The Castle by Kafka
Lichtenberg's Aphorisms
Tractatus, by Wittgenstein
The Invention of Morel, by Adolfo Bioy Casares
Satyricon by Petronius.
History of Rome by Livy
Other recs from him found in the book Between Parenthesis:
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
The Missing Piece by Antoine Bello
Ubik by Philip K Dick
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
The Literary Conference by César Aira
Revulsion by Horacio Castellanos Moya
The Museum of Eterna's Novel by Macedonio Fernández
The Temple of Iconoclasts by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
Bloomsbury Tales by Ana María Navales
Antipoems by Nicanor Parra
The Good Cripple by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm
Homage to the American Indian by Ernesto Monique Cardenal
Bartleby & Co. by Enrique Vila-Matas
Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
Illustrated Notebooks 1917-1955 by Georges Braque
The Past by Alan Pauls
Conversation in The Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
>Tractatus, by Wittgenstein
Why is this always chosen over PI?
They're posturing. PI is much better
You're right.
It should've been a 10/10 along with Trout Mask Replica.
Because the name is in Latin, which your average pseud associates with le super seriois work
It feels fresher.
True. That's why Titus Andronicus is more popular than Hamlet or Macbeth.
>why do people have preferences which do not align with mine??? REEEEEEEE
>all those translations
lmao
t. LARPing monolingual
>being retarded
go back to it was made specifically to contain plebes like you
Not the most impressive list. I'm a little puzzled by it. Why should I care what Scaruffi (whoever he is) thinks anyway? Borges' list makes much more sense.
>newfag doesnt know who scaruffi is
how dare you even show your face around here
>Why should I care what Scaruffi thinks anyway?
you shouldn't, he's a meme-man
>(whoever he is)
go back, go all the way back, even Reddit knows Scaruffi, >>>/facebook/
Anyone ranking Murakami as best anything does not deserve even a second of one's attention.
trying too hard
I've seen his face and recognize his name, but I still don't know who he is or why anyone cares about what he thinks, especially in light of his questionable taste.
he's an Italian critic who has allegedly listened to thousands upon thousands of albums of "rock" music (which is anything that's not jazz or classical, according to him) and has rated them all on his blog, but his favorite albums of all time are actually unlistenable and/or 2deep4you pseud bait that Yea Forums worships daily and much of his database is inconsistent enough to make you question if he's actually heard everything he's rated. he's mainly known for his extremely contrarian write-up on the Beatles (The fact that the Beatles...), but he's also a published author (even though he categorically shouldn't)
in conclusion, he has a lolrandom taste in music that has informed the spork-wielding pseuds of Yea Forums for years now but honestly just comes across as a contrarian, pseudo-intellectual liar
Yeah, the canon was chosen by the average pleb, good post buddy
>can't understand irony
retard
SEETHING
>actually unlistenable and/or 2deep4you pseud bait
i know pleb is such a tired generic template meme insult but you're genuinely a pleb if you think this
Not unlike Scarafag here
>TMR
unlistenable
>Rock Bottom
literally who
>Faust I
2deep4you
>& Nico
a rare exception, a solid 6/10
>The Doors
haha look at me arent i a boomer XDDD
>Hosianna Mantra
2deep4you
>Modern Dance
unlistenable
>Twin Infinitives
unlistenable
>Fare Forward Voyagers
2deep4you
>Desert Shore
2deep4you
need I go on?
Tism
Tism
T-t-tism
My father has autism
Tism
T-t-tism
But yours is a normie
@13058912
stop posting
>13058917 (You)
>posts argument
>"s-s-s-stop posting, I c-c-c-can't refute th-th-this and it's making m-m-m-me uncomfortable
He has some interesting takes on philosophy
scaruffi.com
I disagree with your opinions. I personally like a lot of those albums
He has his own philosophical system.
"The mental cannot arise ex nihilo from the non-mental
Cognition is pervasive in nature
The mental is a property of matter, of all matter
Everything has a "mental" aspect, although it is likely that only in the configuration and structure of the human brain that "mental" aspect yields the human form of mental life (consciousness, emotions, the self, etc)
Just like electricity and liquidity are macroscopic properties that are caused by microscopic properties of the constituents, so consciousness is a macroscopic property of our brain that is caused by a microscopic "mental" property of its constituents
The human mind is the product of the co-evolution of memes, language, tools, emotions and brains."
Is he the Italian Hegel?
scaruffi.com
>best of science fiction
>ready player one
>Neuromancer
>Fahrenheit 451
>20,000 Leagues
>Snow Crash
>American Gods
>motherfucking Ready Player One
>TMR
Genuinely great
>Rock Bottom
Solo album of the drummer from Soft Machine.
>Faust I
You either like it or you don't, I guess.
>The Doors are boomer, but VU are not.
>Hosianna Mantra
Only too deep if you cannot imagine anyone liking classical music.
>Modern Dance
Even Sex Pistols are more hardcore than Pete Ubu. I if you don't like aggressive music, you can't enjoy this.
If you don't like rock music in the first place, I have no idea why you would even attempt to listen to the suggestions of a rock critic.
>Genuinely great
replace genuinely with ironically and you have a deal
>>The Doors are boomer, but VU are not
correct. to be fair, though, The Doors are also a 6/10
>Only too deep if you cannot imagine anyone liking classical music.
you're literally talking to an ex-classical elitist who still listens to a fair bit. replace classical with new age easy listening bullshit and you have a deal
>if you don't like aggressive music
I do, there's more to aggression than noise
>If you don't like rock music
I do, there's more to rock than Kraut, experimental, and noise
>why would you even attempt to listen to the suggestions of a rock critic.
see above, he favors the lolrandom subgenres of rock more than anything else, he's hardly a balanced critic
It's hard to imagine an elderly Italian man listening to over 30 hours of harsh noise
>he didn't give the highest score to Hybrid Noisebloom
why bother
How does he do it lads? Based Conan
The only really unlistenable shit there is TMR. Disliking it is one thing, but claiming every album there is "deep" or unlistenable just make you come out as dumb.
>thinking that 2deep4you = deep
closing this tab now, have fun being retarded without me
Harold Bloom of Yea Forums
Trout Mask Replica is one of the only rock albums that treats the genre as an art
Yea Forums isn't one person and pretty much all of the music he likes are widely acclaimed albums so he isn't making too many bold judgement. He is being memed more lately because he called XXXtentacion's death "not a big loss for music"
I don't know man, the people of Yea Forums are exactly a type of guy who calls XXXtentacion's death "not a big loss for music"
>15. The Greek Myths by Robert Graves
edith hamilton posters b t f o
that’s the funny thing about (autistic?) critics like scaruffi who have this chip on their shoulder or something they try to put down every artist in a medium, they always have the most basic, unimpressive taste in other mediums. look at that cosmoetica persons list of greatest films
That cosmoetica guy is an ass, but his list of great films is pretty solid. I can believe the cosmoetica guy genuinely likes and sees those films as great works. While I doubt if Scaruffi has even read all of these books, let alone enough books overall that his best of list would be so long.
yeah but it paints a very mediocre picture of the curator of the list, you know. i think it's a sort of mediocrity that drives anyone to be a tyrant. i'm not saying it's a big surprise or anything though you can tell they're pretty third rate by the way they write generally.
THE FACT THAT
Beatles
What is the consensus on his film taste?
I think he's a meme on that too, is contrarian and pseud sometimes but often he completely ignored some of the lesser-known films of directors he comments on despite them being highly praised amongst patricians.
Nah, Scaruffi's more like Nabokov
no he isnt. his taste in everything is like a 14 year olds first step into art
No, they're just like Yea Forums, because youre all brown skinned mixed race or south Asian kids who shitpost about kikes and Peterson while they shitpost soundcloud rap and kpop
>A Game of Thrones
>The Eye of the World
>John Tolkien
What the actual fuck
Nothing exposes a pleb like not getting TMR. It can only be a difficult listen if you've never listened to anything but basic bitch ABC pop. The slightest familiarity with Jazz or blues or classical and it's a very accessible album
Yea Forums FUCK OFF
He literally admits that his ratings are based upon other critics'. His only value is bringing attention of a part of newfags from Yea Forums to some slightly better music. Otherwise he's completely worthless.
i dislike him as much as (maybe more) than the next man, BUT some of his more thought out (still quite bad) reviews are useful for putting down acclaimed bands if you're too young & don't know enough to dispute them. any other genre than rock though & he clearly doesn't really know what he's talking about.
His classical recommendations are hilarious. Scaruffi is an utter pleb
So Flaubert and Henry James are the only writers on all three lists?
>Scaruffi is an utter pleb
lel
This list is literally too patrician for you :
scaruffi.com
>>Hosianna Mantra
>2deep4you
lol
scaruffi.com
>Dvorak 9
>shostakovitch 15
>fucking four seasons
Yeah, he's a pleb. I'm actually surprised he didn't put in 1812 overture
He dont want to give bad rate to niggers music and just gave them all >7/10 lmao
>he can't handle TMR
scaruffi.com
there's also the "slavery happened because of blacks" thing he did
did he put the odyssey before the iliad in chronological order?
no that's his best of the year list
Belly.
>thinking that popol vuh is "too deep"
turbopleb spotted
Wow it's just like every other big list of books from another pseud
lol
How very exciting and unique...
Scaruffi is genuinely an interesting critic (I cannot think of another proposing TMR or many of the other albums he has listed to join the canon, regardless whether or not you agree with him), but if all of your thoughts are formed by following a critic, or shaped in contrast to a critic, you will inevitably become the pseud you claim to despise. Remember this, when you use the word 'pseud' out of condemnation for the influential, you are only ever critiquing yourself and that which you fear to become. A true pseud is always ignored by history and rightfully so.
Harold Bloom in How to Read and Why sets out the following list of books, books which he believes have the power to instill in one a life-long love of aesthetically and intellectually great literature.
Short Stories
Ivan Turgenev "Bezhin Lea" and "Kasyan from the Beautiful Lands."
Anton Chekhov "The Kiss" and "The Student" and "The Lady with the Dog"
Guy de Maupassant "Madame Tellier's Establishment" and "The Horla"
Ernest Hemingway "Hill Like White Elephants" and "God Rest You Merry, Gentleman" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "A Sea Change"
Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man is Hard to Find" and "Good Country People" and "A View of the Woods"
Vladimir Nabokov's "The Vane Sisters"
Jorge Luis Borges "Tlon, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius"
Tommaso Landolfi "Gogol's Wife"
Italo Calvino "Invisible Cities"
Poems
A. E. Housman "Into My Heart an Air That Kills"
William Blake "The Sick Rose"
Walter Savage Landor "On His Seventy-fifth Birthday"
Alfred Lord Tennyson "The Eagle" and "Ulysses
Robert Browning "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
Walt Whitman "Song of Myself"
Emily Dickinson "Poem 1260 - Because That You Are Going"
Emily Bronte "Stanzas: Often Rebuked, Yet Always Back Returning"
Popular Ballads "Sir Patrick Spence" and "The Unquiet Grave"
Anonymous "Tom O'Bedlam"
Shakespeare's "Sonnet 121 - Tis Better to Be Vil Than Vile Esteemed" and "Sonnet 129 - The Expense of Spirit in a Waste of Shame" and "Sonnet 144 - Two Loves I have, of Comfort and Despair"
John Milton "Paradise Lost"
William Wordsworth "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" and "My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Percy Bysshe Shelley "The Triumph of Life"
John Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
Novels - Part I
Miguel de Cervantes "Don Quixote"
Stendhal "The Charterhouse of Parma"
Jane Austen "Emma"
Charles Dickens "Great Expectations"
Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"
Henry James "The Portrait of a Lady"
Marcel Proust "In Search of Lost Time"
Thomas Mann "The Magic Mountain"
Plays
Shakespeare "Hamlet"
Henrik Ibsen "Hedda Gabler"
Oscar Wilde "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Novels - Part II
Herman Melville "Moby Dick"
William Faulkner "As I Lay Dying"
Nathanael West "Miss Lonelyhearts"
Thomas Pynchon "The Crying of Lot 49"
Cormac McCarthy "Blood Meridian"
Ralph Ellison "Invisible Man"
Toni Morrison "Song of Solomon"
ok now this is based
why do i get the feeling he hasn't actually read any of those novels?
Literally any list of best books that includes any Joyce on it can be safely discarded as retardation.
Yea Forums isn't one person. most of them hate Yea Forums more than the people here do
this except replace joyce with dickinson, emerson, faulkner, hemingway, fitzgerald, steinbeck, thoreau, hawthorne, mccarthy and basically every amerimutt ever
You really are a pleb but most of what you wrote is true. Also, he's a SELF-published author
This except replace Hemingway, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, and Hawthorne with Joyce.
This except take out Hemingway put in Faulkner and do a double substitution with joyce for john Updike and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Scaruffi has good taste but then dislikes things for stupid reasons
>Ugbar
>Ralph Ellison "Invisible Man"
>Toni Morrison "Song of Solomon"