Name FIVE authors

name FIVE authors

Ah ... wait ... fuck ... shit, I can't do it, OP. Good job, you got me. Time to stop posting on Veeky Forums now, let's all stop the show.

>David
>Foster
>Wallace
>Thomas
>Pynchon

first five that came in: Joyce, Pynchon, Steinbeck, Woolf, McCarthy

I think a lot about what he would have written if he had lived longer. I once heard it said he was moving from an obsession with Dostoevsky (whose influence can obviously be seen in his early work) and reading a great deal more Tolstoy. I don't know how true that was, but there is the stereotype of Dostoevsky being a "young man's" writer and that we move onto Tolstoy with time (a simplification, which nevertheless contains elements of truth).

As it stands I can't rank him as a great novelist, but for some reason, I get the feeling that, if he had lived longer, and really assimilated the messages of Tolstoy, using him as inspiration in same way he used Dosto, then he would have produced a truly great novel, one undeniably up there with the 20th century greats, and would have founded a stream of literature, which set itself apart by lacking the teenage elements of Dosto (the obsession with nihilism, the constant pervasive sense of drama(Dosto was the greatest playwright never to have written a play)), which plague his earlier work, and following instead the Tolstoyan model.

Instead, the 20th century became a Dostoyevskyan century, every work a lesser fragmentation of his Brothers Karamazov (Not that this is at all dismissive; it's a wonderful book), populated by exaggerated psychology, an unfounded distaste for naturalism, and a subtle conservatism (present even among the most left-wing writers of the modern and post-modern tradition) which reveals itself in the post-modern suspicion of "ideology" and "ideologues".

The death of Albert Camus came too early. As with Keats and Shelley, when we read his work, what is far more dominant than the actual work which stands before us is the tragic sense, which pervades his corpus, of what could have been.

All amerocans exand yer horizen

Proust
Dostoyevsky
Ovid
Jackie Chan

Joyce
Celine
Camus
Plath
Hugo

Karinthy
Lovecraft
Walter M. Miller Jr
Camus
Mencius

>JK Rowling
>GRR Martin
>Roald Dahl
>Stephenie Meyer
>Suzanne Collins