What is some of the best contemporary literary fiction? Good authors? Preferably from the 21st century
Is it possible to discern the current literary movement?
>>8080168
post another picture of david foster wallace and I'll blow your fucking head off.
>>8080180
lmao
>>8080180
>>8080180
Sorry. It's on the back of this book and it creeps me out every time I close the book.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
>>8080180
lol
Are Marylinne Robinson and Alice Munro considered contemporary?
>>8080224
I've read the first book of my struggle. Is it worth going through all six volumes? Has he written other good books?
>>8080247
Anyone alive or recently dead pretty much
>>8080269
the second book is even better than the first
then keep going if you want, im enjoying them
KIETH FUCKING RIDGEWAY, well Animals and Hawthorne and Child are fucking grade A in my book. /Lit really need to get onto him.
Knausgaard as stated, Michel Houellebecq, and Elena Ferrante are probably the most famous ones right now
>>8081177
Say one knows Houellebecq and Knausgaard to be uninteresting, should they deduce from this that Ferrante is of the same caliber?
>>8081186
All of those authors are completely different. You have to judge for yourself.
Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Javier Marias
>>8080168
>>8081186
She definitely isn't uninteresting in that sense. Books move fast with tight plots, almost reads like a pop novel but it isn't soupy or anything
>>8081799
I like him, but people get mad whenever you post him.
