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Best World Authors of 20th Century
Personally I prefer international literature to American in my reading, so I'm interested in what everyone thinks. It's certainly a much tougher question just based on the sheer quantity of high quality work out there. But give it a shot.
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Re: Best World Authors of 20th Century
I'm probably not well read enough to give a legit answer to this question, but I'm going with Hesse.
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Re: Best World Authors of 20th Century
Italo Calvino
Albert Camus Jose Luis Borges Guenter Grass Herman Hesse Thomas Mann Gabriel Garcia Marquez V.S. Naipaul Jose Saramago George Bernard Shaw |
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Albert Camus [/ QUOTE ] and I'll have to add Marcel Proust |
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Jose Luis Borges [/ QUOTE ] Greatest short story of all time "Garden of the Forking Paths" Another great author is WG Sebald. |
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Another great author is WG Sebald. [/ QUOTE ] |
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Quote: Another great author is WG Sebald. [/ QUOTE ] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] |
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Re: Best World Authors of 20th Century
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[ QUOTE ] Jose Luis Borges [/ QUOTE ] Greatest short story of all time "Garden of the Forking Paths" [/ QUOTE ] I agree, but I have special place in my [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] for The Book of Sand. |
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Re: Best World Authors of 20th Century
How do you forget James Joyce?
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How do you forget James Joyce? [/ QUOTE ] Because I could never be bothered to read him. |
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