Except you
Check on The Sporting Club by McGuane if you get a chance.
This book is like the lovechild of Faulkner and Salvador Dali. So much fun, and nobody outside of Portugal has heard of him.
>>7969166
I'm looking forward to reading more McGuane. Got ninety two in the shade for a few bucks the other day. Always great finding a new author you like
The Tartari Desert by Dino Buzzati.
Someone on lit recommended it to me a long time ago, and it really stuck with me. Haven't seen it mentioned here since. It's nice.
Bump. These have actually been really great suggestions so far
>>7969416
>tfw I thought there was still time
Anyway, Ransmayr's The Last World
>>7970875
>no one has heard of Airships
Dude, what?
>>7969416
>The Tartari Desert
Tiziano Terzani is good too
Why haven't you read it, /lit/.
>>7968869
wtf an old man in front of me on the bus today was reading this book
he was shaking so much I think he maybe had Parkinsons
>youngest son in a small midwestern family
>be jelly of older brother
>he dies after a shaving accident
>mother becomes depressed
>go away to college
>have ess ee ex with a prostitute with frat bros but feel bad
>fall for a qt Stacy
>she begins dating a black student
>everybody gets mad
>she has a kid with him and he leaves
>start orbiting her
>visit home from college
>fall for a local qt
>get cucked by only male friend
>discover mother is unwell
>father caught syphilis from a prostitute and infected her
>book ends
It's okay.
>>7970979
There's a chapter where the main character gets hemmeroids removed by a doctor on amephetimines . Maybe he was reading that part and has hemmeroids
Not really that obscure, but rarely see them mentioned on /lit/
>Jose Saramago - The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
>Tomasi di Lampedusa - The Leopard
>Henrik Ibsen - Emperor and Galilean (his best work, but everyone is about muh peer gynt, muh doll's house)
Fun read for the aspie inside all of us.
>>7970924
people have heard of it, just not mentioned as much as it should (or maybe shouldn't) on lit. The stories blew me away
>>7969416
In English it's The Tartar Steppe. Great book, great ending. I was especially moved by the chapter in the middle where Drogo goes back to his hometown and visits his would-be sweetheart one last time (whose name I forget).
Heard about it on /lit/ too.
As a Minnesotan, no one ever talks about J. F. Powers
I want someone to discuss it with so bad
>>7971923
Huh, I was already aware of Abelard's position as an important Medieval philosopher, but I had no idea of his life. How much would recommend their letters?
>>7969297
i've read the asshole of judas. was good shit. i'm a portuguese-canadian, though, so you're basically right
>>7969416
Ayyy, that may have been me. Check out his short stories too (though I don't know if they've been translated into English).
Maybe it's me but I haven't seen Berlin Alexanderplatz mentioned ever.
>>7970963
because you never scanned it
>>7972323
I may, if I ever have time, but that won't be for a while.
>>7971294
I loved The Dog of the South by Portis and True Grit of course.
>>7971909
Morte d' Urban was a great book. Another NYRB book I picked just because of the publisher.
>>7973240
I ride NYRB's dick HARd
McTeague by Frank Norris
It's a forgotten classic of gilded age American lit, and it's just fucking fun to read
>>7971986
they are the creme de la creme as far as antiquated loveletters go but maybe it's just the romanticist in me. I quite liked them
>fare thee well, one who makes me fare well
I originally read them as background on good old peter's theological beliefs though. they've got some of that too.
>>7972318
>Berlin Alexanderplatz
I remember more than one thread about it but that was a couple of years ago.
>>7968869
I'm sure some of you must have at least heard about it though. It was recommended to me by /lit/ two years ago too.
I'm not implying that "old /lit/ was better" or anything of the sort, btw. Just making a note.
