Underrated/Unmentioned Writers
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We recommend one another our favorite underrated writers, ones we feel aren't really known or talked about enough on /lit/ and otherwise. Non-American writers a plus.
I'll start with a few recs:
Shusaku Endo (Silence, Deep River)
Gilbert Sorrentino (Mulligan Stew, Aberration of Starlight, The Moon in Its Flight)
Georges Perec (Life a User's Manual, Things: A Story of the Sixties)
Robert Coover (The Public Burning, The Brunist Day of Wrath)
William Saroyan (The Human Comedy, The Time of Your Life)
>underrated
>overrated
Please leave.
None of these are either underrated or undermentioned.
>>7563755
? Are you having a bad day? I'd love to hear about it.
>>7563761
Okay, since you put enough time and thought into shutting me down, could you, while you're at it, also direct me toward some other writers I and others might not have heard of and might enjoy?
I'll have to check these guys out. I know Gass loved Public Burning. Oh, I'd say Gass. He's been picking up traction on lit recently but still underrated.
>perec
>not mentioning La Disparition or W ou le souvenir d'enfance
wtf op
Holy fuck. We literally have a thread like this in a catalog. Why do you retards always do this. Especially on a slow board like /lit/. There is literally no excuse unless you're just intentionally shitposting.
>>7563746
> Gilbert Sorrentino
he's rated correctly. He wrote shitty poetry and a bunch of "whoa metafictional" novels. Nobody cares much about that sort of stuff. Therefore, nobody reads him, and he'll be forgotten.
> Robert Coover
Only for The Public Burning. I don't think he was a very strong writer, but that one's a good novel that should be taught in schools.
>>7563746
Hanif Kurashi (The Buddha of Suburbia, My Beautiful Laundrette)
J.M. Coetzee (Waiting for the Barbarians, Disgrace)
Michael Ondaatje (The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The English Patient).
