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Re: Best World Authors of 20th Century
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[ QUOTE ] Italo Calvino Albert Camus Jose Luis Borges Guenter Grass Herman Hesse Thomas Mann Gabriel Garcia Marquez V.S. Naipaul Jose Saramago George Bernard Shaw [/ QUOTE ] [...] Having read all but Sarmango on that list, I'd pick Calvino for the truly astonishing breadth and inventiveness. [/ QUOTE ] Please read Saramago; given what you wrote I think you'd love him. |
#32
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dostoyevsky is too early right? [/ QUOTE ] 19th century. |
#33
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Dostoyevsky died 1895. Great list so far, but I would add: Umberto Eco Primo Levi Aldous Huxley [/ QUOTE ] I didn't like Eco. I have always wanted to read Levi. What does Huxley have aside from Brave New World? |
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George Orwell. It'd be a better world if everyone could comprehend 1984. [/ QUOTE ] lol |
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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 [/ QUOTE ] 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? |
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edit - those of you that like Calvino, what should I start with? [/ QUOTE ] If on a winter's night a traveler |
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Quote: How do you forget James Joyce? Because I could never be bothered to read him. [/ QUOTE ] 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.
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