Post only one writer per country, but as many countries as you want. I also listed in descending order the nations I tend to read from the most.
USA: Charles Bukowski (sorry, no pomo) England: D. H. Lawrence Ireland: James Joyce France: Michel Houellebecq Russia: Fyodor Dostoevsky Germany: Friedrich Nietzsche Austria: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Greece: Homer Italy (including Italic Romans): Italo Svevo Norway: Knut Hamsun Switzerland: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Netherlands: Jan Wolkers Belgium: Dimitri Verhulst Denmark: H. C. Andersen Spain: Cervantes Portugal: Pessoa Japan: Mishima China: Li Fu Argentina: Borges Peru: Vallejo
This list makes me realize that I prefer modern writers. I know I'll get a lot of hate for Bukowski, but whatever. Our lists are about what we like the most, not who is "objectively" the best.
Benjamin Fisher
you seem like someone i would really dislike
William Mitchell
Also, are there any nations you would like to read more of? Personally, I was surprised to read that I haven't read any Swedes even though they keep awarding themselves the Nobel Prize in Literature. I also would like to read more contemporary Chinese novelists since there seems to be a lot! Anyone have any Swedes or Chinese to recommend?
Angel Hall
Hnng sauce?
Jonathan Turner
America: Thomas Pynchon
Who cares about the rest?
Logan Scott
you forgot pic related.
I found her on here actually. Try doing a reverse image search. I don't know anything about her.
Wyatt Nelson
OP here. I liked Pynchon even though I generally dislike pomo writers. Nonetheless, I didn't finish Gravity's Rainbow. I felt like I got the point after about page 200.
Jace Bell
katie who likes to fuck strangers
Isaac Scott
luke wilson
Alexander Morales
you are a shit-taste pseud
bukowski is a retard
William Fisher
she's from an MDE video lmao
Mason Gutierrez
>Don't forget about Poland.
Grayson Rivera
>France: Michel Houellebecq
Out of all the great French literature you could choose from your favourite writer is fuckin Houellebecq??
True, I forgot that Northern Ireland and Ireland weren't the same thing.
Ireland: Joyce UK: Eliot
Kayden Howard
>picking anyone other than Joyce
pleb
Benjamin Fisher
Yeah, James Joyce is definitely the best author from the United Kingdom
Liam Gomez
>He thinks Ireland wasn't a part of the UK at that time
Get out, taig. I can smell your taterbreath from here.
Josiah Fisher
I know these aren't the most popular or "best", but they are my favourites. England: W. Somerset Maugham USA: Mark Twain France:Samuel Beckett Austria: Thomas Bernhard Germany: Gunter Grass Spain: Cervantes Ukraine: Nikolai Gogol Italy: Italo Svevo Russia :Anton Chekhov China: Mo Yan Poland: Andrzej Stasiuk Hungary: László Krasznahorkai
Gavin Peterson
USA: F. Scott Fitzgerald England: D.H. Lawrence Wales: Dylan Thomas Scotland: Robert Burns Ireland: James Joyce France: Marcel Proust Germany: Thomas Mann Russia: Leo Tolstoy
Jack Russell
USA: William Gaddis Ireland: Jamba Juice France: Gustave Flaubert Russia: Leo Tolstoy Germany: Thomas Mann Austria: Hermann Broch Austria-Hungary/Czech: Franz Kafka Italy: Italo Svevo Spain: Julian Rios Argentina: Jorge Luis Borges Chile: Roberto Bolano
Look at these cunts denying Shakespeare just to seem well-read. Guess how I know your not, come on.
Jeremiah Clark
>Guess how I know your not [well read] >and hyphenating well-read in predicate adjective position hee hee hee I'm pickin up what '''your''' puttin down user >mark_hamill_bro-pointing_and_smiling_and_maybe_winking_too.jpg
Samuel Walker
Tell me the reason why nobody's talking about Mexico. There's pretty good literature over here too, such as Juan Jose Arreola and Octavio Paz (who I'm not a great fan but he's pretty good in matters of cultural and sociological issues -pardon my english, btw), José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Fuentes were not bad at all either. We have, also, great poets and essaists (please correct my gramar in casi it's messed up). I deeply enjoy reading Julio Cortázar and Borges, as for Argetina's lit comes, and about EUA there are some really good authors from beat generation and the roots from it, such as Ezra Pound (who I personally admire above all) and Walt Withman. Nontheless, I can't give an honest opinion about other authors, though I've read some of their work (such as Camus and Sartre, or Hamsun -who I think is also magnificent writting-, or Lawrence or Goethe), given to the fact I have not read further works despite one or two of their more famous ones. I'd like Veeky Forums to tell me, in a short way, about the reasons you have to say such author is your favorite in such country and have fun, good willing people. :)
Brody Reed
There's a huge german writer who is seemingly impossible to translate, but i can't remember his name at all, does anyone know who i might be talking about?
Easton Bell
you can't honestly think svevo > dante
Bentley Torres
>I felt like I got the point after about page 200. wow
Adam Jones
UK = United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Ahahaha, sorting Gogol under Ukraine. Poor guy is turning in his grave.
Joshua Gutierrez
Interesting choices, but why did you put Kafka under Czech? I know he was born in the area known as today's Czech Republic, but did he ever consider himself a national Czech writer?
Ayden Clark
Not so fast. Joyce never gave up his UK passport. Even when the Nazis occupied France and he became an enemy alien, he refused the offer of Irish citizenship in order to leave for Switzerland. Joyce could have gotten a Free State passport as early as 1924 but did not do so.
