What is the best writer from your country?

xD

That would be hillarious, I don't remeber any writer being such a condescending, nobel-seeking-asshole like Lobo.

I've read Intermitências and Cegueira from Saramago and rightfully acknowledge his quality, but it didn't have much of an impression on me like Os Cus de Judas by Lobo. What would you recommend for a better grasp of Sarameme?

The meme books, like Memorial do Convento, Ano da morte de ricardo reis, jangada de pedra, Cain, Homem duplicado, evangelho segundo jesus cristo

When we talk about Antunes, Eça, Saramago... the memes are the best pic

As I thought, but thanks for the reccs, I will check out Evangelho.

I wanted to disagree with you but then I saw the trips.

unironically Žižek. that is not a complement.

Joseph Heller?

Overall: Jack Kerouac, unironically

Prose: Fitzgerald or Toni Morrison

Poetry: My dude Walt Whitman... Shame nobody can touch him in this country even 150 years later though. I guess we aren't a land of poets

Honorable mentions to Ralph Ellison and Ernest Hemingway

Overall: Clarice Lispector

Short Story: Dalton Trevisan

Novel: Machado de Assis or Joaquim Américo de Almeida

Poetry: Carlos Drummond de Andrade or (maybe) Álvares de Azevedo

Drama: Nelson Rodrigues

hey friend—you live in lisbon?

what did her eyebrows mean by this

good taste

Prose: DFW, Toni Morrison even though she's a Flaubert knock-off

Poetry: Me and Wallace Stevens

I would rather die before living in that disgusting shithole

Nothing personal against you, user. I hope you are a good person

Mohammed

...

John Green every book is a masterpiece inspired by his hard life.

I liked Pedro Páramo very much, truly excellent writer, but I was recommended The Bow and The Lyre by Paz, does he comes to Rulfo's level?

nah just visiting portugal and wanted some info. will be going to lisbon first

Mateiu Caragiale, Mircea Eliade, Emil Cioran, George Bacovia.

nah

I would replace Álvares de Azevedo by Augusto dos Anjos or Ferreira Gullar.

Overall: Cervantes

Poetry: Machado

Prose: Aub

Drama: Lorca / Calderón

Overall: Machado de Assis

Poetry: Augusto dos Anjos

Short Story: Rubem Fonseca or Dalton Trevisan

Prose: Clarice Lispector

¿Por dónde empezar con Aub?

Probably Atwood, but the most Canadian author is MacLennan.

Prose: Miki Liukkonen (pic related)

Poetry: Jukka Viikilä

Overall: Rulfo

Poetry: Sor Juana

Prose: Alfonso Reyes

Drama: Ruíz de Alarcón

Prose: Joyce
Poetry: Yeats

>does he comes to Rulfo's level?

Their poetics and projects are completely different. Not only that, but Rulfo wrote narrative prose, while Paz was more of a poet and essayist. The Bow and the Lyre is an essay on poetics and aesthetics, you should check it out regardless of his rivalry with Rulfo, since both of them were very influential to the development of literature in Mexico, and because both of them are excellent writers (some would argue that Paz is the best essayist that has ever come out of México, better than Alatorre, Chumacero, García Ponce or even Alfonso Reyes).

Got anything to say about this Miki guy? He seems to be a pretty young guy who produces a lot of stuff, much like I aspire to do

How's Lorca's drama? I love his poetry, but some friends have told me his drama is just not as good.

It's a tie between Toni Morrison and James Baldwin

Shit taste

Let me see your shit taste dumbass

the pretention of this board is evidenced by you all not putting the country; im supposed to know who Jukka Viikilä is in a thread trying to get new authors?

>he can't into google

kek

>has the internet
>complains about not knowing things as if it's impossible to figure it out
the worst kind of people

You won't get anything by offending people you don't know!

>reading comprehension

>prose: DFW

kek

Hafez Shirazi, in my opinion

Though for modern political theory Ali Shariati has to be the most influential

u goddam right

Prose: Alice Munro

Poetry: bpNichol

Drama: Claude Gavreau

Suck my dick

Harder to offend today, don't get that many chances to. People choose to conflict with what they can.

Bard of Boland

Prose: Witold Gombrowicz

Poetry: Cyprian Norwid

Non-Fiction: Ryszard Kapuściński

Genre fiction: Stanisław Lem

Munro or me
But why would I read Canadian shit (or write it)

probably Borges, but I kinda want to say Cortazar just to be a contrarian bitch

sample of writing

Halldór Laxness is pretty good as far as modern authors go, but obviously Snorri Sturluson is the OG.

He started off with poetry but writes prose nowadays. Recently he wrote a 800 page book titled "O". I assume it's very Infinite-Jest-like. I just haven't read Infinite Jest yet but so they say...

Bolaño

J.P Jacobsen
I find it a shame that he is not more widely known outside of Denmark.
Both his novels are modernist masterpieces.

>the contry that produced Mistral, Neruda, and Parra
>its best writer is Bolaño

I love Bolaño, but man at least make an effort to know your country's writers.

Prose: Henry James
Poetry: Dickinson or Whitman
Drama: O'Neill, I guess

of course I know their works, I’m just not really a man of poetry. How about this:

>Prose
Bolaño

Melville

There's so many amazing writters that it feels wrong to limit to just a few. Is it ok to shill your country if it's always underlooked?

Yeah, go for it.

this. moby dick is a masterpiece. if pynchon were beethoven melville would be modest mouse

From my country: whatever meme country
Writing in my native lang: /lit says its Dostoyevsky

what country?

The memeyest of the lot.

The USA?

Belarus?

>belarus
>the memeyest

I don’t understand this comparison.

Pridnestrovie?

>shame nobody can touch him
i don't really know what you expected. the only country's example i know of where a modern writer surpassed a premodern one is Pessoa. that being said, my american vote goes to stevens

i dont know if ireland is overpowered or just got lucky being near the center of modernism

if you wanna talk about reading comprehension, nowhere in the OP question does it ask you to name the country. I'm still baffled that you can't figure this out.

But cortazar is better. borges is a three-trick pony: recursion, infinity, and time

the Irish are genetically superior with respect to verbal intelligence, relative to the vast majority of human races. hence the bants, religiosity, poetics and sperging lit

>genetically
dropped

Overall: Hugo, Apollinaire
Poetry: Rimbaud, Apollinaire, me
Prose: Flaubert, Proust, Céline
Drama: none

Unironically, an elderly man writing about a damn bridge.

Herman Melville

>Drama: none
>who is Moliere
>who is Racine
>who is Corneille
>who is Ionesco
wew, and I'm not even a frog

woah lad you totally schooled me I never heard these names brb going to reconsider my opinions now that i, a fucking frenchman, know Molière exists

>still not understanding

i've been meaning to read him, but my croatian is terrible.

Or Hamsun, I guess.

>croatian
*autistic serbian screeching*

There are english translations if you don't feel like learning the language.

t. someone who isn't me

ppshh, nothing personal, kid

>poetry Machado instead of Quevedo
>Lorca instead of Lope de Vega

Ionesco?

It's funny how polarizing Kerouac is, you either love it or hate it, but even funnier is seeing someone liking him so much, care to explain why?

>no Hart
OKAY.