What do you think of Larry McCaffery's top 25 books of the 20th century?

user... Easy on the author...

recognitions is also included in his top 100

who

>Delilo
>Gass
>some literally who's

>no McCarthy
shit

name the literally who's

So for the 3.14 people who've read it, is "The Public Burning" really better than Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and the Unnamable?

>Coover
>Federman
>Wright
>Lowry
>Bathelme
maybe not literally who's but that they made the list and not McCarthy is disconcerting.

holy fucking pleb

no you are
faggot

No, but that's only because Beckett's Trilogy is one of the best pieces of prose ever written.

Public Burning is incredible though, worth being in the top 25 alongside the others he picked. It's fantastic because it achieves this highwire act of balancing political realism in the sections narrated by Nixon and surreal absurdity in the montages of recounting various world events. Nixon as a character is actually sympathetic and real (probably aided by the fact that most of the book was finished by the time Watergate was breaking).

This guy is like Veeky Forums in human form, no wonder he looks like a middle aged lesbian.

go back to r/books you dumb brainlet

Since when the fuck does Veeky Forums pay attention to any of those authors?

thats buzzfeed

>more than half are American

trash

>english speakers

>Only anglo books
Into the trash

>yanks
no

why does his opinion matter again?

pretty good list. Pale Fire at #1 is a brave choice

This.
>not a single non-English novel

Finnegans Wake

brave but pleb as shit

>closet homosexual
>Burroughs

Really got my noggin joggin’

It's a decent list but it's far too tainted by his personal preferences that he tries to pass off as objective. It wouldn't be an issue if he didn't formulate the list as a response to an "out of touch" Modern Library list, but he did, so we have to attack him for his own blindspots.

In particular he's overly enamored with American postmodernism/experimental fiction, to the point of overlooking very flawed works and denigrating works that don't conform to a similar mold. Because despite what fans of the style will tell you, American pomo does in fact have a cohesive, traceable lineage and set of qualities that creates commonground.

name the very flawed works and why they are flawed

>Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, 1962 [The most audaciously conceived novel of the century--and the most perfectly execute--this is also the book whose existence could have been the most difficult to anticipate in the year 1900.]

spinelessbooks.com/mccaffery/100/

here's the full list with comments.

Swap Lolita and Pale Fire for starters.

it's specifically an English language list, though, because the Modern Library list was too.

No

>no McElroy

embarrassing

Lookout Cartridge is no. 39 on the full list

>McElroy is most important of all "unknown" postmodernist American authors; vaguely analogous to Antonioni’s Blow Up, Cartridge is a fascinating, gigantic mystery novel that demonstrates the cross fertilization that has been recently occurring between film and prose fiction.

Women and Men should be #1 desu

Mashup of the pretentious perennials, and the diversity designates. Choices completely driven by ego, no connection to substance.

virgin

literally who?

>His work and teaching focuses on postmodern literature, contemporary fiction, and Bruce Springsteen. He also played a role in helping to establish science fiction as a major literary genre
throw it in the fucking trash