Now that he's gone, who is the best living writer?

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