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Recommend a book/author you've never seen mentioned on /lit/ before

I'll start: The Vampyre by John Polidori

>> No.1190420

>>1190416
READ THIS, AS PER A RECOMMENDATION ON /LIT/.

MY CONTRIBUTION: THE RED LAUGH, BY ANDREYEV

>> No.1190425

A Fine and Private Place by Peter S Beagle

>> No.1190445

Taipan by James Clavell

>> No.1190446

Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis

>> No.1190447

Grosses Solo Fuer Anton

>> No.1190472

Sons of the Reich: II SS Panzer Corps by Michael Reynolds

>> No.1190473

>>1190446
NOT SURE IF TROLLING :(

>> No.1190479

"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

In fact, I recommend ANY of Solzhenitsyn's novels. This and "Cancer Ward" are particularly good.

>> No.1190482

>>1190479
FIRST - NO FUCKING WAY.

SECOND - MORE REASONABLE ANSWER

>> No.1190488

>>1190482
Rational rebuttal of "...Ivan Denisovich"?

>> No.1190490

>>1190479
Yeah, Solzhenitsyn is discussed semi-often on here, especially One Day in the Life. I would even say Cancer Ward is discussed a bit too. I never see much about his other stuff, like The Gulag Archipelago and August 1914 though.

>> No.1190492

>>1190488
ONE DAY IS OFTEN USED IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, SO THERE IS OFTEN THREADS IN HERE ABOUT IT.

>> No.1190497

>>1190479
What?! Is this your first day on /lit/ or something?

>> No.1190499

>>1190490
Ok, fair enough.
I've not found a great translation of August 1914 though.

As for The Gulag Archipelago., I'd have thought it would be discussed more on here, as it's widely seen as the apex of his literary career.

>>1190492
I read The Gulag Archipelago in GCSE English Lit - and not ...Ivan Denisovich.

However - fantastic writer and recommended reading!

>> No.1190505

>>1190499
Which translator/s have you tried for August 1914, so I know which to avoid?

>> No.1190517

>>1190505
Well, for a start, don't bother with the Michael Glenny translation (it's the one used by Penguin books.)

I sort of gave up after that. Defenders of the translation say that it was intended more as a "paraphrase".

>> No.1190530

>>1190499 apex of his literary career
Is it now, or is it merely his most political?

>> No.1190555

>DOHOHOHO I've read something nobody else has

This thread is nothing but an edgy hipster competition.

>> No.1190561

>>1190555
WAY TO IGNORE THE ENTIRE THREAD, WHERE WE WERE ACTUALLY TRYING TO DETERMINE WHY SOME WORKS ARE DISCUSSED HERE MORE THAN OTHERS.

SOME OF US AREN'T INTERESTED IN READING THE SAME SHIT REGURGITATED HERE, EVERY FUCKING DAY. MAYBE WE'RE DONE WITH: ANIMAL FARM, 1984, BRAVE NEW WORLD, CATCH-22, INFINITE JEST, AND THE HANDFUL OF OTHERS DISCUSSED HERE MOSTLY.

YOUR STATEMENT WASN'T EXACTLY PROVIDING ANYTHING BENEFICIAL TO THE DISCUSSION EITHER.

>> No.1190567

>>1190555
I was really just tired of seeing the same books posted here everyday, and wanted to see if we could talk about some other books. Sorry if that bothered you

>> No.1190589

I HOPE TO SEE THIS THREAD MAXED OUT WHEN I WAKE UP.

GOOD NIGHT /LIT/.

>> No.1190593

'A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters' by Julian Barnes. If you've seen someone mention it before, that was me.

>> No.1190596

Box Man by Abe Kobo

I only ever see Woman in the Dunes discussed here (which I have, but haven't read yet; I'm working on some early short works)

>> No.1190597

The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa

>> No.1190602

>>1190600
That you Drifter?

>> No.1190600

>>1190597

lol, I was just going to put this down as my response, but you beat me to it.

anyways, my contribution is 'Look Homeward, Angel' by Thomas Wolfe, or his other book -- 'You Can't Go Home Again'

both are great

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Generation Kill. Find out what it was like to be at the front of the charge in the 2003 invasion of Iraq without political taint or mass media goggles. Read it and then watch the faithful 7-part series

>> No.1190613

>>1190602
no, not drifter

>> No.1190616

>>1190606

Who gives a fuck? It was like being a murderer but with the element of nonconformity removed. Big fucking whoop.

>> No.1190634

A Russian Gentleman by Sergei Aksakov.
Good suggestion, OP.

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Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country

>> No.1190672

>>1190637
This actually does get brought up from time to time.

Excellent book, but the English translation is pretty shitty.

>> No.1190677

Cains Book - Alex Trocchi

>> No.1190696

INVITATION TO A BEHEADING BY NABOKOV
THE TREE OF MAN BY PATRICK WHITE
INTRUDER IN THE DUST BY WILLIAM FAULKNER
ENDS AND MEANS BY ALDOUS HUXLEY
THE AGE OF REASON BY SARTRE
PLAYER PIANO BY KURT VONNEGUT
ANYTHING BY UMBERTO ECO
LONESOME TRAVELLER BY JACK KEROUAC
INTERZONE BY BURROUGHS
INVISIBLE CITIES BY ITALO CALVINO
A PERFECT VACUUM BY STALINSLAW LEM
CELL BY STEPHEN KING

>> No.1190701

Well, nobody discusses much of Céline these days, but I just finished 'Death on the Installment' Plan and I loved it, it felt almost like a preface to 'Journey to the End of the Night'.

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>>1190701
forgot my pic

>> No.1190738

>>1190696
>implying cell wasn't shit

oh caps guy you so crazy

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>>1190672

I have seen Snow Country brought up from time to time; however, there hasn't been huge discussions about this work like Catcher in the Rye or Catch-22.

Same thing with this book, The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I've seen the book brought up in "what do you recommend" threads. I haven't seen huge discussions on it though.

>> No.1191175

>>1190637
Snow Country is mentioned/discussed a bit on here, but I don't often see anything about his other works - Beauty and Sadness, The Sound of the Mountain, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, The Master of Go, etc.

I guess as far as other Japanese authors, I see a lot of Mishima's Temple of the Golden Pavillion and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, but not really much about The Sea of Fertility books. And I almost never see Shusaku Endo mentioned, and Junichiro Tanizaki very rarely.

>> No.1191181

Boleslaw Prus "The Doll"

>> No.1191199

>>1191175
Not really. A good deal of e/lit/ists have commented the Sea of Fertility, specially Runaway Horses and Spring Now (I guess Decay of an Angel and The Temple of Dawn don't get much love, here or anywhere else)

As for Tanizaki, I've seen The Makioka Sisters on a couple of To Read lists but no comments really.

I'd also like to recommend The Broken Commandment by Toson, which I believe is sadly out of print. I haven't seen anybody talk about it, nor A Dark Night's Passing by Shiga either for that matter.

>> No.1191484

>>1190738
I WENT TO BED LONG BEFORE THAT POST WAS MADE, IT WASN'T ME :(

>> No.1191871

bump

>> No.1191881

>>1191199
Shiga was actually recommended to me on here a few months ago (maybe by you?). I also don't see much about female Japanese lit authors, like Sawako Ariyoshi and Fumiko Enchi.

>> No.1192020

I read lots of surrealist/dada/avant-garde kinda stuff. Here's some snippets from my shelf:

Selected Works of Konrad Bayer - post-war Austria's resident poet: kind of like a dada with a taste for understatement and bizarre fables.

Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico - the only novel by the Italian "metaphysical" painter (think early surrealism). Kind of like the first chapter of Hesse's Journey to the West, stretched for a whole novel. Quietly beautiful.

Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars - mentioned here a little, not nearly enough. Journey to the End of the Night crossed with Maldoror: globe-trotting terrorism at the turn of the 20th century. Black humour masterpiece.

Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian - jazzy pataphysical romance. Probably my favourite novel... when the emotions of the characters change so does the nature of the setting.

I'll give you more if these sound like yr. thing.

captcha: Lord whilling

>> No.1192051

Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal
The Butterfly Rebellion by William Butler

>> No.1192057
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>>1192051
>Gore Vidal

>> No.1192062

this. My favourite writer. can anyone reccomend anything like him? inb4 Mary Renault, read most of her stuff too

>> No.1192063

>>1192062
WHO? WHO IS IT?! DON'T LEAVE ME IN SUSPENSE

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>>1192063
so sorry old chap. rookie mistake