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Your 5 favorite writers, whether they write prose, poetry, philosophy, or anything else
Others rate & recommend
Balzac, Maupassant, Zola, Tolstoy, Hugo, Stendhal, Flaubert
>>6365309
Very based
Don Delillo
Lynda Barry
James Ellroy
Cormac McCarthy
Francesca Lia Block
All are prose, I can't read that other stuff.
>>6365334
Fuck off, asshole.
>Poetry
Mallarmé
Boileau
Vigny
La Fontaine
Banville
>Prose
Rousseau
Nietzsche
Pascal
Jünger
Boccaccio
Lermontov
Onetti
Didion
Beckett
Tavares
Pavese (his prose more than his poetry)
Louis Zukofsky
Arno Schmidt
Marguerite Young
Emil Cioran
William H. Gass
Nabokov
Faulkner
Milton
Sartre
Kierkegaard
>>6365344
>can't count
>doesn't understand local slang
>upset like a pussy
>gets dubs
No justice.
'Genstein
Dostoevsky
Kierkegaard
Hemmmmmmingway
Kafka
>prose
J-K. Huysmans
A. France
G. Flaubert
L. Bloy
H. de Balzac
>poetry
F. de Malherbe
J. de la Fontaine
P. Corneille
J. Racine
L. de Saint-Simon
>philosophy
S. Kierkegaard
J. Ellul
G. Likács
M. Heidegger
P. Ricœur
>>6365309
Based. I would have included L. Tolstoï.
>>6365352
No thanks.
>>6365355
Come on, S. Beckett is unreadable.
>>6365579
>J-P. Sartre
>>6365668
>Come on, S. Beckett is unreadable.
uh, how so?
>>6365673
They must've read one of his late prose poems and think that's the whole Beckett
Shakespeare, woolf, dickinson, burroughs, whitman
Thomas browne may edge on their soon
>>6365668
>No Thanks
Explain
>P. Corneille
Cheap
>Saint-Simon
pls
>>6365231
Lem
Borges
Faulkner
Steinbeck
Chesterton
All of these stodgy old authors. Borrrrring.
>>6365231
Don Delillo
Raymond Carver
David Foster Wallace
Lydia Davis
John Steinbeck
Hume
Nietzsche
Wittgenstein
Runner-up: Schopenhauer, even though he was infected with Kantianism and willing to be dishonest if it meant keeping his system from collapsing. I wish Schulze would have recommended Hume and Aristotle to him instead of Kant and Plato.
I am not too fond of novels or poetry but I dig D. H. Lawrence, especially when he goes into lyric poet mode. The Fox is my favorite work of his.
>>6365715
>cheap
>A. Vigny
>S. Mallarmé
>>6365995
>Vigny
>Mallarmé
>cheap
How so?
The hugolian inspiration of Vigny can be disappointing sometimes, but it's far from being cheap
Corneille is neither a top-tier Baroque nor a completely top-tier Classic. His use of emphasis and "galant style" is sometimes pitiful. He should have tried epic instead of theater, because he cannot bring a psychological depth in some of his plays.
Not to say that a lot of them are truly disappointing, almost a caricature. Still a good author in his youth though, it started decrease after Rodogune
>Thomas Pynchon
>James Joyce
>Robert Anton Wilson
>Samuel Beckett
>William S. Burroughs
Ayn rand
Frederich nietzsche
Fyodor dostoevsky (only Notes from Underground, though)
J.R.R Tolkien
Jack Kerouac
Ray Bradbury
Mark Twain
Hemingway
SteinbeckRandbut only because I like the brutalist prose.
>>6366101
>Rand but only because I like the brutalist prose.
Wow. This is unprecedented, but, whatever floats your boat.
>>6366108
Wh-what do you mean anon
Ayn Rand
Karl Marx
Raymond E. Feist
Stefan Zweig
Anatole France
Kurt Vonnegut
Yukio Mishima
Ernest Hemingway
J.D. SalingerBrett Easton Ellis
>>6365231
Machado de Assis
William Shakespeare
Dante Alighieri
Friedrich NietzscheDan Brown
>>6366116
I'm not really sure what I mean by that Now, a couple of hours later. But I bet you like dominating women, am I wrong?
>>6365668
What's wrong with Sartre?
>>6366382
You're entirely correct. I love it.
Though I prefer giving girls 'the consent talk' before doing the whole hair-pulling ass-slapping thing. Roark's method doesn't appeal to me.
Flannery O'Connor
Nathanael West
Miranda July
Georges Perec
Jonathan Safran Foer
>>6365668
I've read most of his novels, all of his short stories and most of his plays, plus I'm halfway through the new Grove Press edition of his Collected Poems. Also, I've been flipping through his Collected letters recently.
When I say Beckett is one of my favourite writers, I mean it.
where da quads at?
>>6365668
kill yourself my man
Camus
Zhuangzi
Robert Frost
Guenon
Frithjof Schuon
>>6366550
I've just started reading A Good Man is Hard to Find. Amazingly good.
Also, I remember reading--a few years ago--La vie mode d'emploi, The Void and a collection of his essays. Perec is a diamond in the rough rescued from obscurity.
>>6366655
>responding with a lame /mu/ meme
You're not helping, ace.
Dostoevsky
Kierkegaard
Wesley
St. Augustine
C.S. Lewis
>>6365352
>Nietzsche
>prose
Tolstoy
Eliot :^)
Milton
Melville
Proust
Handke
Parise
Comisso
Flaubert
Stendhal
Shakespeare, Dante, Joyce, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky
Dylan Thomas
Irving Welsh
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
William Faulkner
Allen Ginsberg
Byron
Rimbaud
Nick Drake
Dylan Thomas
Joyce
Camus (I admire his work greatly, but I dont particularly follow absurdism)
Kafka
Kierkegaard (a cool dude I actually do follow as well as enjoy his writings)
Oscar Wilde
Carroll
Richard Brautigan
e e cummings
Dostoevsky
James Joyce
Anthony Burgess
Thomas Mann
Leo Tolstoy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Marcel Proust
Milan Kundera
>>6365231
ray carver
flannery O'Connor
kenzaburo oe
haruki murakami
natsume soseki
Dostoyevsky
Wolfe (Thomas)
Steinbeck
Bob Dylan
Borges
Cormac McCarthy
David Foster Wallace
Kurt Vonnegut
Haruki Murakami
Tom Robbins
Zweig
Hamsun
Fowles
Fante
Sa-Carneiro
Faulkner
Vonnegut
Bukowski
Jung
Pynchon
These threads are worthless nobody ever rates
>>6371752
0/10
>>6371752
But it gives us a chance to talk about ourselves.
Dosto
De Sade
Hesse
Spinoza
Stirner
Steinbeck
Faulkner
Dostoevsky
Hemingway
Kafka
>>6371836
same
Top five writers of all kinds:
James Joyce
Leo Tolstoy
David Hume
Thomas Mann
Honor-my Ballsack
Robert Jordan
Leo Tolstoy
Brandon Sanderson
Osamu Dazai
Patrick Rothfuss
inb4 >fantasy
>>6365231
Shakespeare
Dante
Nabokov
Carroll
Cao Xueqin
>>6371752
I read them for recs on writers I haven't read before.
>>6371150
I never undestood why everyone made such a deal (even at the time it was released) about Dorian Grey being gay. There is never a full statement on that in the whole book.
>>6365703
>may edge on their soon
confirmed for poser
>>6365231
Plato
Dostoevsky
Wolfe
Kierkegaard
Dante
Rumi
Thomas Mann
Italo Calvino
e e cummings
Czesław Miłosz
Saul Kripke
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Gottlob Frege
AJ Ayer
Kurt Godel
>>6366101
My nig.
Was scared to post Hemingway, Twain and Vonnegut without a brother. Laughed uncontrollably at A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court. Also, if it doesn't sound too stupid, I really enjoy Bruce Hood as a non-fiction writer.
Kafka
Pynchon
Faulkner
Beckett
Dick
