Which authors truly have insights on human experience? At least, subjectively, to you.
James Joyce because Ulysses presents a perfectly formed human being from whom all can be grasped
Marcus Aurelius
john green
>>8238892
Orwell.
This is kind of a funny question to me.
I don't know why. I guess it is because you are asking someone "expert" on how they view their personal experience with the hopes that you will then use that same method / viewpoint to handle you experience, as human.
You literally want to become someone else. That is funny.
Is it daddy issues?
>>8238940
the fault in our stars
>>8238961
hey man we're all just trying to do the best we can
>>8238892
Limitations.
>>8238892
Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the psychological aspects
Herman Hesse in the spiritual aspects
>>8238892
Gaddis and Gass, Woolf, and, most importantly, Henry James.
>>8238961
There's a lot of pretense in those words. I didn't come here begging for advice or anything. I just want some interesting reads because I want to read some books with a soul.
Doris Lessing.
>>8238961
you're rude and you should leave
Robert Bly.
Proust's in Search of Lost Time is amazing for that
Lyndon LaRouche
>>8238892
The motherfucking Greeks, including that guy who was a literal mother-fucker.
>>8238983
correct answer
>>8238892
Dostoyevsky literally solved life.
Read his books.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Marcus Aurelius
shakespeare
>>8239109
>solved life
What do you mean by this?
Yukio Mishima
>>8239145
>hasn't read dosto
Whenever I read a very profound author or profound book I don't post about it on /lit/ or tell anybody about it because I enjoy knowing things other people don't. :^)
>>8239146
Agreed.
I expected The Sea of Fertility to be riddled with his idealogy. Instead:
>the protagonist is a impotent contemplative
>traditionalists are swallowed by history
>idealogues are blind fodder
>the ascetic laughs monkishly in their faces
So many individuals, temperaments, neuroses.
Reminds me of Borges's parable "Everything and Nothing"
Also I'd like to add Cortazar to the list.
>Hopscotch
>Secret Weapons
>The Pursuer
Junger
>>8239177
pearls and swine am i rite =DD!!
>>8238892
Kafka and Dostoevsky, by far.
>>8239192
Haven't read it all the way through, so I can't say I have much of an opinion.
Alan Watts
I'd go with Haruki Murakami.
Milan Kundera's 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' is good too.
>>8238961
>"which authors click with you on a personal level?"
>"lol do you have daddy issues"
This is beyond projecting
Pynchon perfectly captures that murky kind of peripheral experience you never quite know what to say of or how to explain but know it is in some way important, if only to yourself alone.
>>8238921
>Marcus Aurelius
best translation on his meditations?
Aristotle.
All those that have experience being human.So not Kant
>>8239184
Exactly. /lit/ is full of swine.
Certainly Dostoevsky, but I would also add Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling alone is absolutely incredible.
>>8239192
It's depressing. The major "flaw" in Dostoevsky's works is that he doesn't make much of a fair case for why we should be Christians, which he intended to do with The Life of a Great Sinner.
>>8239720
Adding to this: Don Quixote, Homer's works, and Sophocles' works.
Zhuangzi.
Dao de Jing.
“Your life has a limit, but knowledge has none. If you use what is limited to pursue what has no limit, you will be in danger.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
>>8238892
Alice Munro, definitely.
Mishima
Borges
Nietzsche
Zapffe
Schopenhauer
>>8238961
the guy is asking, for those with subjective enlightening insights on the human experience, and you want to say this?? i'm going to have to agree with this anon >>8239358.
>>8239740
Did you read it in original text?
>>8238892
Hamsun
Proust
Dostoevsky
Balzac
Chekhov
These are the big ones that come to mind.
>>8238892
DeLillo, Dostoevsky, Modiano, Hesse, Kafka
