ITT

We name authors often unheard of here.

Calder Willingham

Turgenev, Lermontov.
Lermontov is especially weird, because he must speak to a lot of people here, for better or worse.

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Turgenev is woody Allen-tier

Orlovitz was meme'd around here some months ago. Milkbottle-H is one of the densest books I've read but, God, was it fun.

My good old nigga Maxim Gorky

greatest soviet writer imho

explain

I've seen lermentov threads. A Hero of Our time ends up on a lot of essential Veeky Forums lists

Lermontov was really popular here a couple of years ago. Hero of Our Time was being brought up constantly.

Flaubert doesn't get much love around here. Proust and Stendahl seem to get all the French lit love. And Celine for a few edgelords

Eh, my newfag is showing.
I don't know, Brodsky? Favorite of 18 yo I-feel-so-old fedoras everywhere, yet basically unmentioned here. It's just weird considering how slavaboo this board is.

i will admit that i was one of the said edgy teens who related to Pechorin though... i still do

I'm a bit biased, though, because he is one of my favorites

Fun fact: Lermontov's books were considered forbidden books in Russia by the orthodox church in the 20th century

Paul Bowls

Morris Berman

Flann O Brien

Nikos Kazantzakis.
He does get mentioned once in a while though.

Stumbled on this in a used book store. Immediately became one of my favorite books. Most of the references I could find to it online were on tumblrs titled stuff like "authors nobody reads anymore."

Ever since WWII most of the 19th century Russian authors are pretty mainstream, dude.

He's kind of forgotten by a lot of people, isn't he? I think he's the writer you're supposed to read after Joyce and Beckett if you can't get enough Irish. I've had a copy of one of his books sitting on my shelves for a few years now and I doubt I'll ever read it.

You should. He's fantastic. Not as good as Joyce, but still a great writer. He gives an insight into a different slice of Ireland than Joyce or Yeats do.

Kenneth Patchen from what I remember is pretty good.

Céline is the best you named and there's nothing edgy about that.

Kiyohiro Miura, won the '88 Akutagawa Prize for "He's Leaving Home", one of my favourite stories.

Every French authors except maybe Proust and Celine are unknown to Veeky Forums

Martin Walser

Milan Oklopdzic

Was a black wave Yugoslav writer. Mostly surreal and has a really unique style and has "what a twist" moments , that are legit good.

Californian blues and Metro are fav

Where should I start with him? I've been meaning to read Zorba for some time.

Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Some Austrians/Germans/Swiss no-one here discusses:

Christoph Ransmayr - get The Last World, amazing

W. G. Sebald - sometimes Austerlitz is mentioned here, but he wrote so much more (he mixes languages a lot, I wonder how that works in English translation)

Walter Moers - original and comfy meta-fantasy without stealing from Tolkien

Marcel Reich-Ranicki - did for Germany what Bloom did for the US, while being a little bit less of a fat cunt, but only a little. Wrote a great memoir too, possibly the only thing you can pick up in English.

Friedrich Dürrenmatt - wrote philosophical literary crime detective-ish novels that dealt with the holocaust, and some great dramas

Herbert Rosendorfer - get Grand Solo for Anton, a guy too weird for society is suddenly the only man alive.

Fritz Angst was mentioned here maybe once or twice, his book Mars is his only and I feel a lot of people on Veeky Forums may relate to the plot.

Alejandro Zambra

Diego Maquieira