ITT: authors /lit/ never talks about

[Anonymous No.18813416]

[Anonymous No.18813434]

>>18813416
Jonathan Carroll. He wrote a lot of batshit crazy stories & horrors (most famous the land of laughs) is also a pit momy

[Anonymous No.18813452]

Me

[Anonymous No.18813741]

>>18813416
Václav Havel
He actually was spy

[Anonymous No.18813802]

>>18813416
Because /lit/ doesn’t read anything outside of Europe or North America that isn’t Russian or Japanese, and the fact that he’s a neoliberal causes all the overly online communists and fascists here to sperg out and go back to reading Schmitt or Trotsky or whatever

[Anonymous No.18814171]

bump

[Anonymous No.18814185]

>>18813741
he wasn't, just a useful idiot

[Anonymous No.18814242]

>>18813416
what's up with his obsession with "Tirant lo Blanch"?

[Anonymous No.18815176]

Pat Conroy. Gay guy at work got me into him

[Anonymous No.18815201]

>>18813416
The few hispanics here seem to be leftists. They all, all leftists, hated Llosa in my university.

[Anonymous No.18815259]

>>18815201
Llosa used to be fairly leftist but had a falling out with Garica Marquez. Now he's just a rich reactionary dickhead

[Anonymous No.18815680]

antoine de saint-exupéry. pretty cool guy.
and theodor fontane.

[Anonymous No.18815691]

>>18813416
german expressionists

[Anonymous No.18815695]

>>18815680
>antoine de saint-exupéry
Flight to Arras was unexpected kino from a random charity shop find. Like a more mature Camus. Are his other adult works of similar quality?

[Anonymous No.18815702]

>>18813416
Naguib Mahfouz & Adonis

[Anonymous No.18815718]

>>18815695
i can recommend terre des hommes (wind, sand, and stars in english). very good book.

[Anonymous No.18815733]

mikhail naimy and khalil gibran.

[Anonymous No.18815771]

in all the napoleon/war /lit/ threads coignet has never been mentioned, only on /pol/ and /tg/ according to archives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Roch_Coignet

[Anonymous No.18815800]

>>18815771
correction: /int/ and /his/ have also been coignetpilled

[Anonymous No.18815813]

me :(

[Anonymous No.18816196]

I'm kinda disappointed that /lit/ never talks about Sebald. He might not be highbrow enough for here, but he does a bang on job of bringing together the bliss and dread of the lonely traveller type.

[Anonymous No.18816215]

>>18816196
I like him but
>muh jews
assures he will never be a meme here.

[Anonymous No.18816261]

>>18815201
my former-guerrilla-member-current-university-professor uncle says that he "tried really hard, but 'unfortunately' cannot dislike Vargas Llosa"

[Anonymous No.18816277]

>>18815691
Like?

[Anonymous No.18816291]

>>18816215
he's way more than muh jews though
read his work properly ffs before you judge him

[Anonymous No.18816298]

>>18816261
>dislike
you mean like?

[Anonymous No.18816303]

>>18816196
one of the best to do it, srs

[Anonymous No.18816306]

>>18813416
literally any non-american contemporary author

[Anonymous No.18816325]

[Anonymous No.18816334]

>>18816298
No. He told me a few years ago that he hadn't read a Vargas Llosa's book for decades due to "political disagreements", but recently he was asked to read something by him (I forgot which book) and "unfortunately the fucker is still a damn good writer".

[Anonymous No.18816339]

>>18816298
I think it was a reluctant admission of respect.

[Anonymous No.18816344]

>>18816215
yeah, I see what you mean. Even though I personally think his work is great, he'll just be memed to death here because of the whole nazi hatred thing.
>inb4 10-page single sentence on the horrors of Theresienstadt

Still, I'm stoked to see that at least two anons here know about him in the first place.

[Anonymous No.18816375]

>>18813416
Llosa always was dishonest.
In an interview where he discussed about The War of the End of the World, he said Brazilians hated it because he isn't Brazilian. From what I saw, most critics liked the book and those who disliked it complained about how he presented one the real characters.

[Anonymous No.18816473]

>>18816298
Llosa is a cunt and his politics are horrible, but no one who actually cares about literature can deny his worth.

[Anonymous No.18816576]

Albert Caraco

Writer and pessimistic philosopher who killed himself after the death of his father. Was shut in who absolutely hated life and everyone, he was similar to Cioran, except far darker.

Wrote a book about his mother who was also a philosopher that was dying to an illness, in the book he shared the hate/love relationship with his mother and his misery.

His book that was published after his suicide, Bréviaire du chaos, has his pessimistic/misantrophic view of the world and is considered one of his best works.

His works are written in French, and he doesn't have many translations, which is why he doesn't get posted very often here. Sad because his books could have been a /lit/ classic.

"The preservation of a beautiful chair is more important to me than the existence of several bipeds with an articulate voice" (Albert Caraco)

[Anonymous No.18816998]

[Anonymous No.18817012]

>>18813416
Incredible writer, surprised he isn't a meme here.

[Anonymous No.18817190]

>>18816277
Gottfried Benn, Georg Takl (he's only talked in relation to Heidegger)

[Anonymous No.18817200]

>>18815176
Did the gay guy at work also get into you?

[Anonymous No.18817224]

>>18813802
Plenty of Latin American stuff, plenty of Middle Eastern and Hindu stuff, plenty of Chinese stuff. The only literature that’s not discussed on /lit/ is African.

[Anonymous No.18817284]

>>18813416
I only see him on /hisp/ threads
I loved La ciudad y los perros, what should I read next?

[Anonymous No.18817409]

>>18817200
Yuss

[Anonymous No.18817443]

>>18813416
conversation in the cathedral was literally about me. in praise of the stepmother sucked ass. want to read more

[Anonymous No.18817517]

>>18817284
"La casa verde" or "Conversacion en la Catedral"

[Anonymous No.18817537]

>>18817284
>>18817443
The War of the End of the World is my favorite.

t. Anglophone /his/fag

Also one thing I really admire about Vargas Llosa is that every book tries something different with style and structure. Reminds me of Faulkner. Makes book quality more subjective though.

[Anonymous No.18817540]

>>18816196
Yeah he's great. Love his pensive style.

[Anonymous No.18817551]

>>18817537
Have you read the book by Euclides da Cunha? Most people get filtered by the first 120 pages of geological autism.