Has this country produced any literature of worth post 1945?
>>8242014
yes
I actually wonder myself. I've been waiting patiently for someone on /lit/ to recommend something written in England during the 20th century bc most of the serious writing by native English speakers seems to have been done by Americans and Irishmen.
>>8242014
Parade's End you plebeian.
Gormenghast series too
>>8242026
>I've been waiting patiently
have you really?
how patiently have you been waiting?
describe a typical day of waiting. do you do other tasks, or do you just sit, arms folded, the clock ticking sonorously in the corner, hoping that one day someone will realise what it is that you are waiting for?
>>8242027
>post 1945
All of Graham Greene's stuff.
Most of Evelyn Waugh's stuff.
Postwar British literature is actually pretty great, it's only been in the last 20 years or so that their writing has fallen off a cliff.
>>8242014
John Fowles was my nigga.
>>8242014
harry potter
>>8242063
That's genre fiction.
>>8243149
what genre would that be?
>>8243351
Britsploitation
>>8242049
This needs to be answered.
Muriel Spark
Angela Carter
John Fowles
Alan Warner (Morvern Callar, maybe not the rest)
Elizabeth Smart kind of counts even though she's Canadian.
>>8242014
Britain isn't a country you idiots
>>8242014
No, but not many countries have tbqh. Pic related is one of the few exceptions in that regard.
>inb4 america
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh is probably the best 20th Century British novel but there are few that are regarded as classics. (A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Atonement etc)
>>8242014
yes
ignore the fry quote on the front, it's a genuinely sublime book
>>8242014
I would argue that Brian Aldiss produced literary sci-fi in the mid twentieth century in Non Stop and Hothouse. Particularly the deliberate way he writes about ho and, enclosed environments with dense vegetation in these two books.
GRAHAM GREENE
>>8243754
This, also Ishiguroinb4 weeband
I don't know, Britain is dead to me after Brexit.
>>8243360
What I said was clear enough.
If "waiting" has some strange ambiguity to it, then maybe it would please you to think I said "I have been hoping for someone on /lit/ to recommend a British novel of the 20th century that isn't 1984" and I actually got some pretty good responses ITT.
Take pic related. There's nothing really holy about this chart but you can appreciate that these are the books /lit/ memes the most and the only post-war or even 20th to 21st century novel of England jumping out at me is 1984. In my high opinion of that great nation, I expected greater representation from such an important country.
Now, without having sidetracked myself and wasted everyone's time and shitposting faculties, do you get what I meant in my original post?
>>8242014
Anthony Burgess' stuff is pretty great.
>>8243761
wow jeez calm down dude you're going to have a cardiac arrest
>>8243781
No use responding to "loll u mad??" but I'm comfy af rn. Pardon me composing the most comprehensive, spoonfeediest response I could but I'm dealing with the problem of ambiguity.
>>8243759
weak and pathetic lad
Ishiguro?
>>8243840
Nischt sprache dicht language niscthmore
>>8242026
>England
Britain isn't only England.
>Irish
>native English speaking
Pick one.
>>8243913
>>Irish
>>native English speaking
>Pick one.
Kek, what century is it?
1984, The Satanic Verses, A Clockwork Orange, Lord of the Flies, Tolkien ...
Ian McKewan had a pretty solid incest-y book called Cement Garden that I read recently. Think he wrote it in the seventies.
>>8242014
Anthony Powell - Dance to the Music of Time
