Now that he's gone, who is the best living writer?
INB4 Pynchon. No.
Now that he's gone, who is the best living writer?
INB4 Pynchon. No.
It is Pynchon. He's the writer alive with the best resume.
I beg to differ
me
DeLillo is superior
The fuck's wrong with you? This isn't even funny you genre-shit fucking retard pleb
Fuck off
He appeals to a certain type of reader, namely folks who like to look down their noses at certain aspects of mainstream modernity. But best? Hardly.
>Muh allusions! Allusions are the alpha and omega of literature! If an author doesn't jack off to his own erudition for 700 pages, it's genre trash!
FTFY
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mccarthy and pynchon are at the top. maybe vollmann is close.
best underdog is michael cisco
Based God
IDK but it was never Eco.
>mccarthy and pynchon
You could have said Roth and DeLillo as well to emulate Bloom even more.
It's Harold Bloom.
No love for Roth?
Rushdie?
McEwan?
Amis?
Gass?
Krasznahorkai?
Coetzee?
Koontz?
Houellebecq
>Allusions are the alpha and omega of literature!
kys
tao lin
McElroy tho
Roubaud
>all these americans
It's pretty obnoxious but you have to remember that this is an American website.
Uhhh, what?
Yeah it's Krasznahorkai. I don't know why Veeky Forums doesn't suck his dick more, he writes old school verse for modern times. Satantango is fucken beautiful.
And Seibo is possibly his magnum opus sooooooooooooooooooo
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came here to post this beautiful smiling head. legit, he's not perfect, but he's better than anyone else on the market.
>implying wolfe doesn't do this
lel
OP is implying that Eco was the best living author when he was alive, but he never was.
Will they give him the Nobel this year guys?
no. it's going to some estonian female you've never heard of
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Stephen king anyone?
>best underdog is michael cisco
this guy imo.
>bald
Dropped. Thank God I was only one chapter in.
This, thank god I can read him in original, finally being from a backwater country actually payed off.
>implying the nobel goes to people who deserve it
haha yea fucking cueballs think they can write. what a joke
it's Roth you idiots
he's retired
The mark of true retardation is judging books based on perceived genre, instead of quality of the novel.
>Pynchon
Not even the worst writer. The very definition of average.
>implying
yeah, no
I looked up this guy Kraszhanahourakami, and all his books are like 100 pages long. Where's his masterpiece? I would accept a book even 480 pages long, but there's nothing. He writes these femme little pamphlets.
lol fuck no
Regardless, Barth is the greatest living author
You didn't actually look him up.
Barth is probably the funniest living author, but I'm not sure he's THAT good.
Barth is some cloistered little autist writing mannered books that appeal only to himself.
This
Oe is the best.
>mieville
no, no, no.
first post best post.
We all know he was, it's a fact. We're talking about NOW.
so much anglophone
Yes, I did, as evidenced by the fact that I know he only writes dainty little books with no meat on them.
chabon
It's Wolfe. Was before eco died too
No way. He fuckin rules.
That ain't true, though.
Has anyone here read Javier Marias? I see him mentioned often as one of the best living writers.
All right, then, so point me to his big novel.
>greatest living author
>posts italian dan brown
wew
>Saying no to Pynchon
read more, junior. And it's not just one, it's several, I happen to be looking at the definitive list right now.
>Koonts
??????
more like borges and calvino's retarded kid
His novel most recently released in English is 400 pages long
get real
No one fall for this bait.
you're right pynchon isnt actually alive
>Koontz?
>reddit.
>erudition
oh, learnedness!
>INB4 Pynchon
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Not decapitated yet, boys