Best World Authors of 20th Century

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Mikhail Bulgakov

[sam h]

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Another great author is WG Sebald.

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[Scotch78]

Hesse, Huxley and Orwell all get another vote from me.

Scott

[TheBlueMonster]

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Another great author is WG Sebald.




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All too worthy. The best writer in the 20th century was P G Wodehouse. God knows that the 20th century needed hunmour more than anything else...

[InchoateHand]

Rushdie was not raised in England, and you can definitely get away with adding him to a list of "Great" authors form the 20th Century.

I agree with the others as well. Its a true pity that Sebald was taken from us just when he was getting going. I can split most of my moods in life between Vertigo and The Emigrants. Actually, come to think of it, thats a pretty narrow emotional register. Oh well.

I too am a fan of good old Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, especially Castle to Castle (over Journey to the End of the Night ) in Manheim's English variant, as my French is not up to par (Ralph Manheim is Gunter Grasse's trusted translator as well). Vitoux's excellent biography of Celine is available to the reader in English, and I would recommend that as well.

In terms of additions to this evolving list, off the top of my head I would feel obliged to add Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Danarto, Danilo Kis, Ivan Klima, Solzhenitsyn, Tadeusz Borowski, Wole Soyinka, and no doubt countless others if my memory were not failing me.

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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.

[jason_t]

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How do you forget James Joyce?

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Because I could never be bothered to read him.

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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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This is a good list. Is it in order?

A few I must add are Kafka, Joyce, Nabakov (since he's not American), Jerzy Kosinski, and Milan Kundera.

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The list was in alphabetical order.

I'm meh on Kafka, probably won't ever read Joyce, I'm ashamed that I forgot Nabokov, haven't read Kosinski and am on the fence on including Kundera.

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

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well, right now we are living in 1984 for the most part