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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Constantine Cavafy
Knut Hamsun
Jorge Luis Borges
I also would like to include Lezama Lima, a Cuban writer for those who want to get a picture of what Cuba was when Castro kicked sordid Batista out.
How about Michael Serres, of late, a philosopher who lately overcame philosophy and became one of the best postmodern thinkers on education.
I would like to see the book list if there is one
thank you
Thomas Mann, Marcel Proust and James Joyce ("Dubliners")
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Paul Auster, the genius who gave us The New York Trilogy.
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." - Sancho Panza, in Don Quixote, pt. 1, bk. 3, ch. 11 (1605)
Where's Max Beerbohm?
Believe, I'm in school, modern 'literature' has been the death of me. I hate school because of it. Quite frankly there is a reason why people still read classics, modern literature just doesn't compare. The most recent novel I've read in the past few years of my own accord was slaughterhouse five. I'd like to keep it that way. The way I'd see it is that the modern world just is condusive to writing. It lacks real change so literature, like everything else, just immitates itself, over and over again until everything has been recycled so may times over that it no longer retains its former sparkle but is rather tarnished by untalented writing and unquestioning minds.
There's good literature from every time period, including the current one.
François Rabelais.
I'd like to read Gargantua and Pantagruel. According to Wikipedia there are at least a couple of pre-20th century translations available.