Best World Authors of 20th Century

[jason_t]

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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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Having read all but Sarmango on that list, I'd pick Calvino for the truly astonishing breadth and inventiveness.

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Please read Saramago; given what you wrote I think you'd love him.

[jason_t]

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dostoyevsky is too early right?

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19th century.

[jason_t]

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Dostoyevsky died 1895.

Great list so far, but I would add:

Umberto Eco
Primo Levi
Aldous Huxley

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I didn't like Eco. I have always wanted to read Levi. What does Huxley have aside from Brave New World?

[jason_t]

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George Orwell. It'd be a better world if everyone could comprehend 1984.

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lol

[ethan]

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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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My favorite from the list (of those I've read). For anyone who hasn't read him - there's a great book of his collected fictions that I'd recommend as a starting point.

edit - those of you that like Calvino, what should I start with?

[jason_t]

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edit - those of you that like Calvino, what should I start with?

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If on a winter's night a traveler

[TheBlueMonster]

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Quote:

How do you forget James Joyce?



Because I could never be bothered to read him.

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touche`

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I'm certain that mentioning Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace in this thread will get me in all sorts of trouble, but there you go.