ITT post major authors you have no interest in reading

Anyone from the 19th century, except maybe Goethe

What about gay american women?

mccarthy

>Borges
>Marxistic
Lmao, he was a conservative who hated commies.

missing out m8

The Death of Ivan Ilyich is less than 150 pages long.
>women
Read Flannery O'Connor.
>gays
Read Oscar Wilde.

I agree

I have never ever been interested in Jane Austin. I’m a woman so I think I’m meant to be but honestly fuck that. Anyone convince me otherwise?

If As I Lay Dying is too much for you then give his short fiction a shot. Start with A Rose for Emily.

Man here, I'm in the same boat. Let's see if anyone can convince us Austen is worthwhile.

Anything in prose or free verse.

You might want to get a dictionary.

I'm writing my own in blank verse.

No interest in reading Nitchee.
He seems to attract neckbeard edgelords like shit draws flies.

but that's a really great paragraph

Try Light in August or Go Down Moses for more accessible prose and structure, or some of his short stories.

Why?

Wilde was married.

so was my "dad"

This faggot.

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Borges is a great author if you're genuinely a booky fuck, it's incredible how much philosophy and hermeneutics he'll be able to pack into just 5 pages

Faulkner is also fantastic but I fear too many people start out with AILD or SnF, when some of his slower, more brooding works like LiA are probably better introductions to his style. Faulkner is also one of those writers who's characters seem to inhabit an almost biblical setting which makes for very heavy and sometimes devastating sequences

Honestly just spend a week fighting through one of the two tomes and then kick yourself for not giving it an honest chance earlier

I mean try Woolf? Thomas Mann? Proust? Tagore? Ellison? Whitman ?

Dos Passos and Thomas Wolfe might be up your alley as well

Toltsoy, Dosto, Gogol, etc. Russians are a great into victorian stuffs. The french are fun too

Try it again, if you want "headier" victorian stuffs there's always George Eliot

literally Whitman

True but so does Dosto and that doesn't make his work any more derivative

seconded

you need to be at least 18 to post here

George Elliott, Middle March is so fucking long

>Borges
>a communist
butthurt Peronist here I presume

Just read one of her shorter works. Damn you kiddies are so fucking whiny

Which one?

my legal father

Gertrude Stein is rarely talked about on here at all. Nobody is going to defend her from your disavowal.

Gertrude Stein is worth reading but if you bristle at the suggestion that "EvErYoNe Is An AmErIcAn" then you probably won't enjoy a lot of her work.
Tender Buttons is a good example of trying to port contemporary visual arts movements (in this case Cubism) to literary forms. I'd also say it's the most successful at passing quasi-or-non-representational art into literature.
Either way it's around 100 pages so why not give it a try? You can read it in a day.

So your other father wasn't legal as well?

my biological father—nicknamed “the holy spirit“ by my sister and I—is not a legal parent of mine

thomas hardy. i know he is famous but other than that all i know is that he shares the same name as that one actor who is shit.

borges is transcendant but you seem like a /pol/ idiot so i'm not too worried about it.

read "how much land does a man need"

art is possible through the creation of a secondary world

They write the odd masterpiece

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Seriously? The 19th century is full of excellent literature. Dostoevsky, Melville, Gogol, Poe, Tolstoy, Twain, Wilde, Turgenev, Hawthorne, the Brontë sisters, the list goes on and on.

Roth

>writes anti-marxist, pro-capitalist hot takes
>responds thoughtfully to every major thinker in the Western Canon™
>flexes on women and minorities on a regular basis
>was white
>/pol/ still hates him
and i thought it was lefties who overdid it with the purity-testing

I wasn't floored by Austen at first, but the older I get, the more I appreciate her. There's a lot that just goes over the head of a young/inexperienced reader.

From a purely historical perspective, Austen is vital to the development of the novel. She was the first major author to consistently mingle the thoughts of characters with the speech of the narrator. Seems simple from our historical vantage point, but it was revolutionary in her day.

Austen's banter is unparalleled, but it's very subtle, so don't feel bad if you don't "get" everything at first. Lots of descriptions that I first read as neutral exposition turned out to be jokes at her characters' expense.

She’s literally the goat, you should go for it

Milton, Goethe, Homer.
How do I get into poetry? I enjoy prose but poems always seems to have way more difficult vocab

>Missing out on Gore Vidal

Subtle, supple, psychologically true big-picture accounts of mid-century America—coming of age, making your mark, etc.—filtered through various Roth stand-ins/personae. He sometimes fails but I think he is worth reading. Try The Human Stain.

Kierkegaard
Derrida

shan't

user, who do you like? If you’re not American and/or ESL, then I understand, but if not you might as well give Roth a spin

>not American and/or ESL
yep

>Kierkegaard
Fear and Trembling is a fascinating examination of Abraham and it's pretty short. Give it a shot. Kierkegaard is absolutely essential if you're a Christian or are interested in existentialist philosophy.

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