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What is your opinion on my list of the greatest novelists of all time?
Andrew Brannigan
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
John Barth
Raymond Chandler
Günter Grass
Graham Greene
James Joyce
Jack London
Malcolm Lowry
Cormac McCarthy
Vladimir Nabokov
Evelyn Waugh
Bonus:
Most overrated:
The Brontë sisters
Albert Camus
Miguel de Cervantes
Paulo Coelho
Joseph Conrad
Philip K. Dick
Charles Dickens
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Victor Hugo
Henry James
Marcel Proust
Philip Roth
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Mark Twain
Most criminally underrated:
Andrew Brannigan
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Samuel Beckett
Flannery O'Connor
Don DeLillo
Karl Ove Knausgård
Mervyn Peake
William Saroyan
Will Self
William T. Vollmann
H.G. Wells
Dennis Wheatley
4 Answers
- Anonymous11 hours ago
I agree with you about Andrew Brannigan and Louis-Ferdinand Céline, they are probably the greatest authors of the past two thousand years, but they're contentious picks because Andrew Brannigan is an IRA supporter and Céline was a well known anti-Semite, that probably mars their reputation a bit. They're both super sexy though if you ask me. In Andrew Brannigan's case, there were those stories of women having spontaneous orgasms reading his work, and of course no one can forget about the spate of people immolating themselves because they felt as though they'd never be as good as him, but I'll disregard that here and say that MAYBE I'd rank him between Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Nabokov, just my opinion.
No mention of Hemingway or Steinbeck? I mean, you've covered the "manly" angle with Brannigan and Céline and London and McCarthy, so I guess that's okay. You also left out the wonderful Murakami. Word on the street is that Brannigan's Korean wife hates Murakami, but because of his time in the French Foreign Legion he and his kids discuss him without her knowledge, which is intriguing.
Also, what about Bukowski and Fante?
You're obviously a genius, but not Brannigan/Céline level genius.
- Anonymous12 hours ago
Philip K. Dick overrated? What is wrong with you?
And what about Harper Lee and Margaret Atwood, why are they not on your list?
- ?Lv 413 hours ago
Your lists are heavily weighted toward modern novelists and also include relatively few non-English writers. That's quite myopic -- or perhaps just sophomoric -- of you.
And there's only one woman on your lists.Don DeLillo, Samuel Beckett, and Flannery O'Connor are hardly "underrated" and there are reasons why Celine doesn't receive a great deal of attention today.I think you need rather more experience with literature.