Who are the best authors from your country?
1. Faulkner
2. Twain
3. Emerson
4. Melville
5. Hawthorne
Thomas Wolfe should be on that list
>>7961232
OK Kerouac.
>>7961229
>2. Twain
(you)
>>7961258
No, that's not me. Go back to pleddit, moron.
Rushdie
Joyce
Shakespeare
Henry James
Jane Austen
>>7961287
good one
>>7961229
1. Whitman
2. Melville
3. Pound
4. H.Crane
5. idk
Camões
Saramago
Eça de Queirós
Mário de Sá Carneiro
José Luís Peixoto
Pessoa is shit
>>7961287
>British Authors
>Joyce is Irish
>Henry James is American
tsk tsk tsk
>>7961229
1. Walt Whitman
2. Thomas Pynchon
3. Gertrude Stein
4. Emerson
5. Edith Wharton
José de Alencar
Machado de Assis
Nelson Rodrigues
Manuel Antônio de Almeida
Aluísio de Azevedo
Pretty personal, I'm not listing the most relevant ones or whatever.
No particular order, by the way.
>>7961229
>2. Twain
>no contemporary authors
Chico Buarque is surprisingly good as a writer, pretty sure as soon as he dies he'll get into the Brazilian canon
>>7961287
What country would that be?
Rushdie is Indian, Joyce is Irish, Shakespeare is English, and James is American.
None. Brazilian literature is terrible.
Lessing
Bernhard
Mann
Grillparzer
...
Die briefe vom wolferl san a echt geil
>>7961417
>British Empire?
Henry James was born in 1843, you dumbfuck.
>>7961423
That was quick.
>>7961423
literalmente abjeto
1. Jose Rizal
2. Nick Joaquin
...
>>7961423
You uncultured stray dog - if you haven't read any of the classics, canon or not, don't utter affirmatives of this sort. Brazil DO have literary geniuses, miracles one might say - like Guimarães Rosa - but are forgotten via a mentality that everything european/american/white is inherently best, the quintessential stray-dog-ideology that Latin America suffers repeatedly. Go fucking read our canon and compare with the others and manufacture your own critique instead of echoing discourses from other underlings.
Joyce
Yeats
Wilde
Beckett
Heaney
Swift
Lewis
>>7961487
How does Ireland do it? Is it something you put in the food or something?
>>7961482
that'll teach him homie
>>7961229
1. David Foster Wallace
2. David Foster Wallace
3. David Foster Wallace
4. David Foster Wallace
5. David Foster Wallace
6. David Foster Wallace
7. David Foster Wallace
8. David Foster Wallace
9. David Foster Wallace
10. David Foster Wallace
11. David Foster Wallace
12. David Foster Wallace
13. ← Bad Luck
14. David Foster Wallace
15. David Foster Wallace
16. David Foster Wallace
17. David Foster Wallace
18. David Foster Wallace
19. David Foster Wallace
20. David Foster Wallace
21. David Foster Wallace
22. Corncob McCarthy
23. David Foster Wallace
24. David Foster Wallace
25. David Foster Wallace
26. David Foster Wallace
27. David Career Move Wallace
28. David Foster Wallace
29. David Foster Wallace
30. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
>>7961229
1. Falkner
2. Pinecone
3. McCarthy
4. Melville
5. Whitman
>Rulfo
>Elizondo
>Paz
>Fuentes
>Sor Juana
>Owen
>Villaurrutia
>Gorostiza
>Ruíz de Alarcón
>Castellanos
>López Velarde
>>7961482
I've read most of both European and Brazilian canons, don't know why have you thought otherwise. Thanks for the advice though, huh.
>>7961487
Don't forget George Bernard Shaw, Laurence Sterne, Flann O’Brien, Oliver Goldsmith, Bram Stoker, and Dylan Thomas.
>>7961496
I'd move some stuff around, but mostly this looks good
William Gass
William Gaddis
John Hawkes
Joseph McElroy
John Barth
Robert Coover
Thomas Pynchon
Donald Barthelme
Alexander Theroux
Samuel Delany
Gene Wolfe
Gil Orlovitz
Don DeLillo
Herman Melville
William Faulkner
Thomas Wolfe
William Vollmann
Henry James
Cormac McCarthy
Gilbert Sorrentino
You surely have read at least three works of each of those authors.
>>7961544
for the friend above
1. Shakespeare
2. Milton
3. Chaucer
Pretty much writes itself
4. Spenser
5. Keats
Two more personal selections
1. Bolaño
2. Bolaño
3. Bolaño
4. Bolaño
5. Bolaño
>>7961505
You forgot José Vasconcelos and Alfonso Reyes. José Emilio Pacheco is another great writer and poet.
>>7961491
It's the fact that it's a country with oppression that's still more or less educated. They don't quite half the first world infrastructure but they're close, but the Catholicism angle and split from GB gives them heavy feels to write about
Plus the land is gorgeous
>>7961513
>Bram Stoker
uhhh
>>7961809
It sucks being a burger.
>>7961367
Your post gave el cancer
>>7961505
Mexicanfag... Good list
1. Cervantes
2. Benito Pérez-Galdós
3. Pío Baroja
4. Francisco de Quevedo
5. Camilo José Cela
1. Patrick White
2. Tim Winton
3. Shaun Tan
4. Bryce Courtney (though he's South African by birth)
Man we're shit
Melville is the best on that list lmao.
Joyce Carol Oates
L Ron Hubbard
Peter Sotos
Antal Szerb, Dezső Kosztolányi, Géza Gárdonyi
Tim Krabbé
Harry Mulisch
Marion Bloem
MultatuliSaskia Noort lel
>>7963360
Buena lista. Aunque habría metido a Delibes en vez de a Cela.
>>7961505
Gilberto Owen
Mi compadre.
>>7961229
>Hawthorne
>Good Author
>>7961229
Kierkegaard
H.C. Andersen
Rest are pretty much irrelevant, but that's okay since Kierkegaard is the undisputed God of prose in Danish. His is among the very greatest prose I've ever read.
>>7963390
Eh.
Nescio
W.F. Hermans
F. Bordewijk
Gerard Reve
Cees Nooteboom
>>7963393
Where you from mate?
>>7963380
Madách Imre, Ady Endre és meg is van az öt.faszért kell olyan képet berakni, ami nem lesz nagyobb, ha rákattintok
Edgar Allan Poe
H. P. Lovecraft
Colin Meloy
Twain
Ivan Cankar
Srečko Kosovel
Tomaž Šalamun
France Prešeren
Vladimir Bartol
>>7961229
How is school vacation week going?
>>7963415
>H.C. Andersen
Go die in a fire.
>>7963529
i liked him when i was a child though
>>7963564
you properly ate dirt as well as a child. It is time to grow up anon And freaking read some more danish authors if Kierkegaard and HC Andersen are your only bids for best author - seriously that's embarrassing.
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Hardy
Milton
Keats
>>7961229
Gogol
Bulgakov
Anna Ahmatova
Stanislav Lem
and Isaak Babel
>>7963495
Idk which country it is ought to be but it's awesome to have a great author named Kancer.
>>7963400
Es una pena que no sea tan conocido. Es uno de los mejores poetas mexicanos.
Ibsen
Hamsun
Askildsen
Knausgård
Vesaas
>>7961229
>tfw Canada doesn't have any good authors
>>7963630
Munro and Sinclair are bretty good, albeit the latter is a one-trick pony. Some may argue that Atwood is good but personally I don't find her enthralling. Too deliberate and ironic. Munro is more honest in her writing.
>>7963415
>no Holberg
fucking plebs i swear
>>7961612
this, mexican dfw is the only good spanish author
>>7963610
Mate, Lem was pretty much Polish, and therefore should not be on your list (considering, that Gogol and Bulgakov are there).
As for my country:
1. Witold Gombrowicz
2. Bruno Schulz
3. Jan Potocki
4. Stanisław Lem
5. Stanisław Brzozowski
>>7961612
You forgot Zambra and Donoso.
>>7961229
1. Hermann Hesse
2. Max Frisch
3. Friedrich Dürrenmatt
>>7963665
Wow, wanna medal?
Melville
Sinclair Lewis
Emerson
Nabokov
Bellow
>>7961535
Needs more 19th century writers.
>>7963861
bellow is Canadian and Nabokov is Russian.
these same anglos that lay claim to any writer who walked on american soil conveniently don't consider Beckett a French author...
1. Faulkner
2. Melville
everybody else is tied for last
>>7961229
Väinö Linna. Should you ever get interested in Finland and it's history, I suggest you read The Unknown Soldier and Under the North Star. They're among the best books I've ever read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unknown_Soldier_(novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_North_Star_trilogy
>>7961482
>you uncultured stray dog
I'm going to use that some day
>>7963433
Spain. Why?
>>7963865
I agree.
>>7961809
What the fuck do you mean we don't have first world infrastructure?
>>7963610
That anon is Slovenian and that writer is called Cankar, not Kancer.
>>7961482
>everything european/american/white
Then why are Indian and Japanese writers so praised?
>>7961487
>heaney
i haven't seen him on any of these lists, but his translation of beowulf and pic related are god-tier. any recommendations for his original work?
Nabokov
Tolstoy
Dostoevsky
Gogol
Chekhov
Lermontov
Turgenev
One of the very few upsides of being Russian is the fact that the literature is pretty great.
>>7961229
am i the only american who doesn't like faulkner?
>>7964439
>Nabokov
>Gogol
Great fucking meme my african american pal
>>7964439
Is there any other upsides?
>>7964451
Why don't you?
>>7964458
every day is an adventure
>>7964451
Are u a black person, my man?
>>7964460
i've tried to read maybe two or three of his books and i didn't like how they were written. i can't remember which books were which but one had sentences that went on forever and another one was written in the same style as the characters spoke and i couldn't get into it.
>>7964474
'kay, gr8 b8 m8 i r8 it 8/8
1. Väinö Linna
2. Mika Waltari
3. Aleksis Kivi
4. Kalle Päätalo
5. Veikko Huovinen
>>7964452
And you consider Nabokov and Gogol being ranked as great russian writers a meme exactly why?
>>7964458
- Games in Steam are a bit cheaper
- Your life is Kafkaesque and Orwellian at the same time
- The internet/ youtube community is quite great
>>7963980
Not Finnish and was not interested stilled enjoyed them, and became interested
>>7964496
>russian
Nabokov wrote his best stuff in English and Gogol was Ukrainian
>>7961381
I like Marcelo Mirisola.
>>7964491
spürdo spädre :DDDD
Mika Waltari really is dank, desu
>>7964479
it's not bait. i am 100% a pleb.
>>7964515
Ukraine isn't real and Gogol identified as a Russian
>>7964515
>ukraine
>real
Lmaoing at ur life nigga read a book
>>7964515
According to your own argument Gogol is a Russian writer because he wrote all of his books in Russian.
Nabokov is said to be a Russian-American novelist and i think that is a fair way of categorising him.
The language an author writes in doesn't influence what country they are from. Kafka is still a Czech writer despite writing in german.
>>7961229
I'm Canadian. I'm having a hard time coming up with 5 authors to begin with.
>>7964559
O RLY???
can everyone give this a read please
https://simplethingsforyoublog.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/growing-up-in-england/
>>7964572
"no"
>>7964559
t. kievan jew
>>7963610
>>7963740
>Mate, Lem was pretty much Polish, and therefore should not be on your list (considering, that Gogol and Bulgakov are there).
*Ukrainian. Sames for all the authors I have listed. Scottish literature isn't just Robert Burns and it's stupid to limit the Irish to Gaelic.
>>7964076
And have you recognized the picture?
>>7964572
this probably isn't the place you want to be asking this. try reddit - im not even being a dick, they probably have a subreddit for writing crit by helpful reasonably insightful people who will give you good feedback.
>>7961229
>no whitman
son,
>>7964439
das klirli fake.
>>7964581
>And have you recognized the picture?
I think I see Tito on one painting, so I guess it's some old yugo war movie.
>>7964134
Thanks
>>7964139
I'm from Madrid. Still, why?
>>7961229
Heinlein
Uslar Pietri
Gallegos
Oteto Silva
Herrera Luque
Eloy Blanco
>>7963650
He is chilean, senpai.
