I am compiling a list of great writers of the world and would like some suggestions and opinions.
2006-12-31 01:47:49 · 6 answers · asked by The Gadfly 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Dickens.
Shakespeare.
T.S. Eliot.
T. Hardy.
G. Greene.
S. Maugham.
Goethe.
Heine.
Thomas Mann.
Balzac.
Victor Hugo.
Emile Zola.
Voltaire.
Paul Verlaine.
Proust (Though I find him a ghastly bore).
Dostoyevsky.
Gogol.
Tolstoi.
Chekhov.
Pasternak.
Ibsen.
Garcia-Lorca.
Pablo Neruda.
Umberto Eco.
Franz Kafka.
W.B. Yeats.
Samuel Becket.
James Joyce.
2006-12-31 02:04:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lav Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Victor Hugo, John Galsworthy, Tomas Man...My favorite is Ivo Andric
2006-12-31 01:58:45 · answer #2 · answered by vdt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At the top of your list - any list of great writers - should always be William Shakespeare.
A few others -
Cervantes, Dickens, Austen, Hugo, Voltaire, Joyce, Dostoevsky, Brecht, Satre.
That should get you started.
B
Now, if you wish to include poets and playwrights...
2006-12-31 01:53:32 · answer #3 · answered by beatriceorme 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From my area of study, I offer up the major Romantics as a whole--Blake, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, and Wordsworth (yes, in that order, I think, though I personally prefer Byron over Shelley)--and the incomparable Ann Radcliffe. (And while we're at it, don't forget the other Shelley.)
You might want to look up Harold Bloom's Western canon. Though I can't stand the guy, his selections are sound.
2006-12-31 02:25:07 · answer #4 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In addition to the others suggested on here, I would request you to include Jose Saramago and Fernando Pessoa, who are both often overlooked but abslutely incredible authors.
How many authors do you intend to include? Your list could easily go on forever...
2006-12-31 04:46:50 · answer #5 · answered by lechatdeluxe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bronte sisters
2006-12-31 12:34:16 · answer #6 · answered by rainbow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋