So I was trying to think of the top 5 novelists/short (NOT poets, playwrights or philosophers) story writers in each of these categories: French, English, German, Russian and Rest of Europe. I wanted to see how each 'team' would stack. Here's what what I got.
French
>Marcel Proust
>Louis-Ferdinand Celine
>Samuel Beckett
>Gustave Flaubert
>Anatole France
English
>James Joyce
>Herman Melville
>Virginia Woolf
>E.M. Forester
>Vladamir Nabokov
German
>Franz Kafka
>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>Thomas Bernhard
>Robert Walser
>Ernst Junger
Russian
>Nikolai Gogol
>Mikhail Bulgakov
>Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>Leo Tolstoy
>Vasily Grossman
Rest of Europe
>Cervantes
>Italo Svevo
>Jorge Luis Borges
>Witold Gombrowicz
>Knut Hamsun
I like my French team over pretty much anyone else, although the Russian and Europe team would pose a threat... Let's see yours.
Borges in Europe, really?
>>8063703
>Anatole France
dans mon pays, cet homme, il n'est rien.
>>8063703
English should be
>David Foster Wallace
>George R.R. Martin
>Stephen King
>George Orwell
>Thomas Pynchon
If feel like you just made a list of authors whose names you've heard a lot.
>>8063703
>Rest of Europe
>>Jorge Luis Borges
>>8063798
Bah dans ton pays, tout ce qui intéresse les gens c'est françois hollande de toute façon
>>8063784
lol
>>8063703
>Jünger
Come on, there's tons of better ones.
Props for Bernhard though.
And Kafka is probably just on that list because he's so popular on /lit/.
Try E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Mann, Günter Grass (though I really hate him and don't get the hype around him), Max Frisch, Heinrich Böll, Hermann Hesse and maybe even Robert Musil.
>>8063703
>James Joyce
>english
>Herman Melville
>Vladimir Nabokov
>English
>>8063810
Same.
>>8064343
Nabokov was english speaking, so was melville....
>>8063784
sorry m8 i meant rest of world
>James Joyce, English
So you're doing this by language and not by nationality I'm guessing?
Odd
>>8064575
I guess James Joyce wasn't, then.
