kickass obscure authors. I recently read McElroy, gass and hawkes and enjoyed them.
what are some other good obscure authors. Hopefully with more than one good book. thanks nigz
I never hear philip roth on /lit/, but he's jewish
>>8021360
He's also not obscure
>>8021369
neither is McElroy, Gass, or Hawkes
>>8021380
They're slightly obscure. Definitely more obscure than Roth. Gass is the least obscure of those.
>>8021380
yes they are. look at their goodreads pages compared to Roth
>>8021390
Are we talking lit obscure, or real life obscure here?
>>8021396
I assume lit obscure. Most of the things /lit/ talks about are real life obscure.
>>8021400
The way I see it, Roth is /lit/ obscure, but super well known outside so it depends on what OP wanted. If he never goes outside, Roth maybe obscure for him
Peter Sotos
>>8021418
either or really. just more authors the better. I wanna branch out and find something new.
Enrique Vila-Matas
T C Boyle
E L Doctorow
>>8021418
Roth is not obscure here at all. If you ask the random person on the street who he is, however, then they probably won't have heard of him.
Kobo Abe
John Banville
Anthony Trollope
>>8021450
Op here. fuck the sea lol
Gregor von Rezzori
Claude Simon
Wolfgang Koeppen
Kent Haruf
Léon Bloy
Georges Bernanos
Charles Maurras
Pierre Boutang
Alain-Fournier
non-francophones need not apply
BS Johnson
Edmund Crispin
César Aira, try An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
>>8021336
I'm glad you enjoyed them. If you are looking for some more nobodies, check out Roubaud, Queneau, Orlovitz, Coover, Theroux, Porta, Mano, Markson, and Mathews. He's really not obscure anymore, but, if you haven't read him already, also check out Gass' good buddy--William Gaddis.
>>8021336
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>>8021832
High five for Oulipo clique! Who here into Perec?
>>8021418
Good point.
There's so many important and renowned authors that /lit/ NEVER talks about: Georges Perec, Ingeborg Bachmann, Herta Müller, Cees Nooteboom, Lu Xun, José Lezama Lima, W.G. Sebald, the list goes on...
nobody mentions Krasznahorkai here, so I guess he would be considered /lit/ obscure
>>8021943
there's a couple of us who talk about him every now and again
>>8021933
You forgot about: Gil Orlovitz, John Hawkes, William Gass, William T. Vollmann, William Blake, William Gaddis, Malcolm Lowry, D. Keith Mano, John Barth, Robert Coover, Arno Schmidt, Julian Rios, Raymond Federman, Harry Mathews, David Markson, Gilbert Sorrentino, the list goes on...
>>8021336
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>>8021943
I try to get people here to read him. Best author currently active IMO
>>8021380
McElroy's pretty obscure. Not on this board, but in general. Novels out of print left and right. I don't just mean Women and Men either
Hawkes is about as obscure as, say, Modigliani
>>8021544
>Wolfgang Koeppen
>>8022216
woah this guy sounds sick. thanks nigz
>>8022216
Best place to start?
>>8022232
anywhere you fucking retard. I hate this question.
less than 1000 is obscure
>>8022238
You're a total fucking loser if you hate that question.
>>8022262
anyone who asks that question is a faggot
>>8022232
I'd say The Melancholy of Resistance is his best
>>8021336
Stanley Elkin doesn't get talked about much. Really funny guy.
Charles Portis isn't obscure but for 99% of people he's "that guy who wrote True Grit".
>>8022271
Presumably some of his books are better than others, and that Anon just wants a recommendation as to which ones are his best
