Best World Authors of 20th Century

Danenania · #1 08-30-2005, 10:03 PM

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.

Claunchy · #2 08-30-2005, 10:05 PM

I'm probably not well read enough to give a legit answer to this question, but I'm going with Hesse.

jason_t · #3 08-30-2005, 10:08 PM

Italo Calvino
Albert Camus
Jose Luis Borges
Guenter Grass
Herman Hesse
Thomas Mann
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
V.S. Naipaul
Jose Saramago
George Bernard Shaw

mslif · #4 08-30-2005, 10:14 PM

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Albert Camus

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TheBlueMonster · #5 08-30-2005, 10:22 PM

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Jose Luis Borges

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Greatest short story of all time "Garden of the Forking Paths"
Another great author is WG Sebald.

sam h · #6 08-31-2005, 11:46 AM

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TheBlueMonster · #7 08-31-2005, 11:54 AM

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jason_t · #8 09-01-2005, 01:31 AM

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Jose Luis Borges

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Greatest short story of all time "Garden of the Forking Paths"

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I agree, but I have special place in my [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] for The Book of Sand.

TheBlueMonster · #9 08-30-2005, 10:22 PM

How do you forget James Joyce?

jason_t · #10 09-01-2005, 01:31 AM

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How do you forget James Joyce?

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Because I could never be bothered to read him.