I want to read more books from the 20th century. Who are the greatest writers of that time?
I want to read more books from the 20th century. Who are the greatest writers of that time?
James Kelly
Easton Perry
The Twentieth Century New Testament
Cooper Cruz
> reading books
get out of here
Matthew Smith
1. James Joyce
2. William Faulkner
3. Marcel Proust
4. W. B. Yeats
5. T. S. Eliot
6. Franz Kafka
7. Thomas Mann
8. George Bernard Shaw
9. Samuel Beckett
10. Virginia Woolf
Henry James did most of his work in the 19th century, but he was important enough for the 20th to be noted ITT.
Zachary Taylor
Claude Simon
Brandon Carter
Henri Michaux
Beckett
Celine
Borges
Kafka
Joyce
Robert Pinget
Bataille (not his fiction)
Clarice Lispector
Gaddis
Gunter Grass
Leonora Carrington
Italo Calvino
Alain Bosquet
Maurice Blanchot
Jeremiah Perez
No particular order, although I'd put Michaux, Beckett, and Kafka at the top
Henry Reyes
What works of his would you recommend starting out with. I know almost nothing about him.
Dominic Powell
Jesus christ, develop your own taste
Cooper Taylor
The more famous authors are acclaimed for a reason. Your taste must be pretty horrible if you overrate obscure authors just for the sake of appearing different.
Matthew Hall
The Flanders Road
The Grass
Isaiah Adams
Bernhard is the most based writer of the 20th century
Brayden Sullivan
I'd still put Eliot, Woolf, Proust and Joyce in my top 20 personally, but your list is literally like a copy/paste from the 'Goodreads best 20th century books of all time!'. A huge part of the reason all those particular authors are acclaimed is because of the historical and social conditions those particular writers found themselves in. Some of them have merit, some of them are even great, but saying that they are all objectively the best writers of the 20th century just suggests that you can't be bothered, or are frightened to, have an opinion of your own and you need Harold Bloom, goodreads et al to tell you what to pick up next
Caleb Long
>projecting
Yikes.
Christian Thompson
Gombrowicz
Nicholas Young
Thank you
Chase Morales
You can't just meme-spam 'projecting' and pretend you've made a cogent point
Chase Murphy
Bob Dylan
Robert Carter
>took the bait, too
Yikes.
Landon Edwards
Whatever man have fun reading the Great Gatsby again
Christopher Young
Daphne Du Maurier
Robert Warren Penn
Cormac McCarthy
Sebastian Mitchell
wat?
Leo Anderson
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george orrwel