Who do you think are the best ~5 authors alive right now?
Also, what are some great novels released in the past ~5 years? I heard Bleeding Edge and The Goldfinch are good.
Thanks.
>>7869621tfw I can't say Umberto Eco is my favorite living author anymore.
This was good IMO
Pynchon, DeLillo, Ferrante, Rushdie, Ishiguro
Open City, A Visit From the Goon Squad, The Buried Giant, all 4 Neopolitan novels
god
& then me 4 times.
>>7869634
>Pynchon, DeLillo, Ferrante, Rushdie, Ishiguro
You're right. We are truly living in a shit age for good literature.
Salinger, Wallace, Marquez, Pynchon
>>7869621
Joseph McElroy, John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, William T. Vollmann, and, last but certainly not least, William H. Gass, who is my personal favorite.
Middle C, Against the Day, Cannonball, and Dying Grass are all great.
Hope this helps!
>>7869815
>wallace
>>7869621
Andrew Vachss, Haruki Murakami, Gene Wolfe, Ursula LeGuin, and not Gunter Grass because I just found out that he is dead.
>>7869815
>Salinger, Wallace, Marquez, Pynchon
>Lists 3 dead authors and an alive aut...
Um...guys...guys?!
>>7869872
can't I pretend its 2006 again just for one moment
>>7869621
God, author of the Bible
>>7869799
>Shitting on Ishiguro
Tasteless pleb detected.
>>7869621
Bleeding edge was shit. If you want some starting points for contemporary literature:
Neustadt Int
2010 Duo Duo
2012 Rohinton Mistry
2014 Mia Couto
2016 Dubravka Ugrešić
Man Booker
2010 Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question
2011 Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
2012 Hilary Mantel Bring Up the Bodies
2013 Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
2014 Richard Flanagan The Narrow Road to the Deep North
2015 Marlon James A Brief History of Seven Killings
Miguel Cervantes
2010 Ana María Matute
2012 José Manuel Caballero Bonald
2013 Elena Poniatowska
2014 Juan Goytisolo
2015 Fernando del Paso
Nobel Literature
Svetlana Alexievich 2015
Patrick Modiano 2014
Alice Munro 2013
Mo Yan 2012
Tomas Tranströmer 2011
Mario Vargas Llosa 2010
Franz Kafka
2015 Eduardo Mendoza
2014 Yan Lianke
2013 Amos Oz
2012 Daniela Hodrová
2011 John Banville
2010 Václav Havel
2009 Peter Handke
>>7869633
His other books are great too.
>>7869815
Fuck you, I was scared shitless about Pynchon for a minute.
>>7869974
check again
Why is Valentina Nappi so perfect?
>>7869621
Pynchon obviously
Philip Roth is the only American author who comes close to rivaling him.
Delillo is bretty good considering the different aspects of his time.
Joyce Carol Oates
Mario Vargas Llosa
Also, the Pale King by DFW is pretty great despite being unfinished.
>>7869967
>Taking the nobel prize seriously
>>7869621
Martin Amis
Chuck Palahniuk
Haruki Marukami
Michel Houellebecq
Jonathan Franzen.
>>7869988
That ain't funny, nigger.
>>7869633
Wardine be cry, mon. Rasscloth pussy hole desu.
>>7869847
Where should I start with him? I don't mind if it's fiction or non fiction.
>>7870026
>Tossing aside Mo Yan, Munro, Llosa, and Alexievich
>>7870268
I'd start with Omensetter's Luck, which DFW considered his best. You could also start with The Tunnel--which I consider his best--but, unless you have an open mind and an appreciation for prose, that may be an unpleasant experience.
>>7869993
Where should I start with her?
>>7870527
How's In The Heart of the Country? Picked it up the other day but haven't read any yet.
>>7869815
He's 77 and still writing. He'll be fine.
>>7870033
good image
>>7870573
Just like everything Gass has written, it's great. The Pedersen Kid, one of the short stories in it, is probably the best short story ever written.
Houellebecq
>>7869621
1.Dav
2. Id
3. Foster
4. Wal
5. Lace
>>7870707
>ALIVE RIGHT NOW
>INTHEPAST5YEARS
killme.jpg
Wolfe senpai is most based.
>>7870567
2 in da pink 1 in da stink
KALLE KNAUS!
>>7869621
she would be one of the best out there if she
1. could act
2. didn't look terribly dull. the deadness of her facial expressions usually suggests, to me, that she has never suffered one good thought
it's a shame because her features aren't bad and her body is nice a f
