Alright lit, let's see how many well accomplished (and possibly unduly ignored) non-meme authors we can name. I'll begin:
>Graham Greene
>>7650335
>initials are GG
>He is a white cracka and his name is a cracker too
>Greenetexting
This guy is a meme supreme, 0/10 OP may god have mercy on your soul
>>7650335
Accomplished in an artistic sense of course.
>>7650335
David Foster Wallace
>>7650335
Robert Walser
>>7650341
Well he has the potential to be a meme but I would resist saying he has attained that status on this board or among the general public.
I really like Robert Anton Wilson
David Wallace
>>7650335
Soseki and Kawabata
Non-meme Japanese authors.
>>7650345
>>7650361
Out of my thread you.
>>7650335
>reading genre fiction
LORD Timothy Dexter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
>>7650335
John Hawkes
Joseph McElroy
William Gass
Julian Rios
Gil Orvolitz
Robert Coover
Raymond Federman
John Barth
Gilbert Sorrentino
Arno Schmidt
>>7650441
This. Makes no sense that James and Hawthorne are never discussed.
>>7650508
James I understand because he is very difficult.
For the lack of discussion of Hawthorne, there is no excuse. Melville is talked about all the time, or perhaps more properly, his name is thrown around a lot (and it seems like it's only ever in reference to Moby Dick or Bartleby). Hawthorne isn't really hard to understand either. Not saying that his works are simple, but they are actually pretty accessible.
Paul Bowles
>>7650335
john dos passos is painfully underappreciated
>>7650524
James isn't as difficult as many make him out to be, really (unless you mean from purely an enjoyment standpoint, then yes).
>>7650588
that's what I meant, yes
in the sense of "difficult to get into"
Stefan Zweig
>>7650583
All the talk about Gass is being done by myself and, if I had to guess, ten other people, which, in my opinion, doesn't make him qualify as meme (it kills me to even use that word).
>>7650590
Yeah, he's incredibly drawn-out. Though I do find his imagery particularly enjoyable
>>7650524
My introduction to James was The Golden Bowl. It was an experience that I will never forget. Some sections were fantastic, others confused me utterly. I will set out a month or two to read it again with a pencil ready. What are some of his more accessible works? I'm considering picking up Portrait of a Lady tomorrow.
>>7650600
I read Daisy Miller, which was pretty neat. It's short too, which helps
>>7650583
Houellebecq was talked about all the time here about six months ago.
>>7650335
anyone know authors who ignored the whole postmodernism meme?
McCarthy is an example. I'd really appreciate recs
>>7650612
Just Submission though, and always in the context of a subtle /pol/ troll.
>>7650614
Maugham? He kind of ignored the modernism meme tho
>>7650614
Blood Meridian is basically a post-modern indictment of the American west and American spirit in a western wrapper...
>not Henry Green
pleb af
>>7650603
Thank you. I just remembered I should have the Oxford short story collection somewhere.
>>7650614
John Gardner, kinda
Ahshahahag
>>7650625
Big up the West Midlands Massive.
>>7650623
it has none of the stylistic characteristics of postmodernism, characteristics which I can't stand.
Try to look smart elsewhere.
>>7650637
Wyatt you clever bastard. Anyway, Gaddis is discussed fairly often.
Thomas Wolfe
Karen Russell
Umberto Eco
Colette
George Eliot
Lord Dunsany
Edith Wharton
Rainer Maria Rilke
Katherine Dunn
Edward St. Aubyn
Sir Thomas Malory
Kent Haruf
Richard Russo
Louis de Bernières
Robert Graves
Herman Wouk
Anne Brontë
William Makepeace Thackeray
Willa Cather
Ambrose Bierce
Amor Towles
Carson McCullers
Ivan Turgenev
Sir Walter Scott
Irvine Welsh
Italo Calvino
>>7650667
Calvino is posted enough here to be a meme author
The rest I agree with
Hesse
Gogol
Bulgakov
Esenin
Tolstoy
Pushkin
Bunin
>>7650717
I see some of those guys mentioned a lot on /lit
I think Paul Bowles is enough of an iconoclast to be memeworthy, look at this fucking guy, he looks cool as fuck
The East:
Du Fu
Hai Zi
Lu Xun
Dai Wangshu
Fei Ming
Hu Shih
Yu Dafu
Dong Qizhang
Gu Cheng
Jia Pingwa
Li Sha Sha
Shi Zhi
Xu Kun
Stan Lai
Akutagawa (not talked enough and very untranslated)
Kyoka Izumi
Toshiki Okada
Noda Hideki
Yumeno Kyusaku
Junichiro Tanizaki
Nagai Kafu
Miyazawa Kenji (for stuff other than Galactic Railroad)
Shimazaki Toson
Basho
Sakutaro Hagiwara
Tatsuhiko Shibusawa
>>7650672
Calvino is genuinely exception, too much so to be a typical /lit/ meme.
>>7650717
Hesse, Gogol, Bulgakov, Tolstoy, and Pushkin are all mentioned frequently (especially Hesse and Tolstoy).
>>7650498
Schmidt is a meme. No one here has read him and they only spam Zettles traum
>>7650740
You like Kyusaku?
>>7651033
Looks like a dope Tom Selleck
>>7650792
shcmidt's good and zettel's traum is probably popular for the trying to fuck the ptp bits as much as the poe bits. it's surprising he doesn't get mentioned more often because we have a high enough german speaking population
>>7650639
>ignores punctuation
If you can stand that, senpai.
>>7650335
where do i start with this nigger?
>>7651211
Read his short story "The Destructors"
Don't know if it's the right place to start, but it's really good
Gotthold Lessing
John von Dorf
John Updike
Mario Vargas Llosa.
>>7651211
The Quiet American
The Power and the Glory
his two best books
>>7651099
Ignoring conventional grammar is not inherently postmodern. Look at some of Pound's shit, for example.
>Graham Greene
Muh nigga.
Angela Carter
Graham Swift
>>7650335
>non-meme
>>7651211
>start
He's borderline genre fictin, like Martin Amis or Gore Vidal. You can just dive in
HP Lovecraft
>>7650667
Lord Dunsany is really hard to read. Not difficult or inaccessible, just laborious and dull. There's nothing literary about his work.
>>7650765
How is Nosferatu standing in front of a crucifix without getting his back seared?
Benno Van Archimboldi
>>7651336
>>7650639
What do you see as the cohesive unit of post-modernist stylistic characteristics?
Mavis Gallant. I'm becoming increasingly convinced she is one of the best short story writers of the latter half of the 20th century.
>>7650592
Zweig is the shit. Boss at the novel, boss at the short story, boss at the biography. And smug-looking bastard to boot.
This guy right here.
>>7651637
Wow she wrote a lot. What's the best collection to start with?
>>7650765
oh shit it's ol' huyzie
>>7650357
Is that the guy who wrote Prometheus Rising? Because that book is meme to the max.
>>7651749
If you can find her Collected Stories used somewhere, that will be a good place to start. It has her best stories in there. I picked up a hardcover for $8 at a used bookstore. It's 800-ish pages, so it is quite a large book.
>>7650667
>tfw I get to meet my living literary waifu soon
>>7652921
Who is she?
>>7650335
i read greene after i watched the third man for the first time. good stuff.
i like thomas bernhard. although i guess he's as memey as an austrian author can get (not counting kafka)
>>7652126
>John Polidori
he can't jump
>>7652976
Karen Russell
>>7653160
Lucky. I barely missed seeing her do some event at a bookstore and I wish I could go back in time to change it.
>>7651093
You're retarded
>>7650335
>osamu dazai
>>7653370
you sound upset i've read more postmodern porn than you. you don't have to jack it to schmidt if you don't want, i'm just sayin there's some ptp in there like any good book dedicated to poe should have. if your complaint conversely is that i jack it to less postmodern books than you: we can't all be into bicycles, they'll gain the vote in no time.
>>7653427
I've read his oeuvre, ya fag. Chill with being buttblasted
>>7650335
Thomas Pynchon
>>7653458
your problem is that i like the same books as you do? if calling me retarded was an invite to your club, please do consider my offer to join the jacking it to your friend's daughter between manuscripts club an equally friendly offer.
>>7650335
>>Graham Greene
>genre
>hack
>religious
>religious hack genre writer
>>7650740
Basho was basically crafting memes nonstop.
>>7650335
Ok, I'll offer a couple that I'm surprised don't get mentioned more often.
Thomas Berger - Little Big Man
Saul Bellows - Herzog
Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
Isaac Babel - Short Stories
PG Wodehouse - My Man Jeeves
Ludovico Ariosto
>>7650639
Eh, it has an
>Y, or Y
structure title and little summarised key events opening each chapter. Frankly I think that after WWII conscious traditionalism on that level counts as postmodern.
>>7653535
>tfw I have two of those on bookshelf waiting to be read
If they do become memes, I'll probably be ready.
Henrik Ibsen & Knut Hamsun
John Banville
GK Chesterton
James Stephens
Mikhail Bulgakov
>>7651211
Brighton rock
>>7650335
Louis L'amour
>>7653802
complete shit
>muh original sin ad infitinum
if you're not xtholic don't fucking bother
he says those two words literally litwrLLY LITAlkrr A millino fucking times
gos i hate this hack fuck
RRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Marcel Proust
Alessandro Baricco
>>7651633
the ones not in blood meridian
John Galsworthy
Larry McMurtry
