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== Literature ==
==Albert Camus==
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== Arno Schmidt ==
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== Cormac McCarthy ==
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== Ernst Jünger ==
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==Ernest Hemingway==
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==Franz Kafka==
Kafka Flowchart.jpg|Kafka
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==Gene Wolfe==
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Joyce.jpg|Joyce
 
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Pychon, A Guide.jpg|Pynchon
 
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==Haruki Murakami==
François, Donatien Alphonse - The Marquis de Sade.jpg|de Sade
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== Henry James ==
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==H.P.Lovecraft==
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* Lovecraft is not Edgar Allan Poe; expect no melodrama, no Victorian intellectual/literary masturbation.
* The stories in the Cthulhu Mythos are more accessible to new readers compared with those in the Dream Cycle series. Start reading the former, and if you like it, move to the latter.
* The format of the stories in the Cthulhu Mythos are usually as follows: a slow setup where the character comes across something that does not feel right, followed by the character encountering whatever the setup was all about (like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg this]), and finally, the character getting out of the encounter forever changed by their experience. At this point, the mysteries of the setup are, in a way, solved; you probably will have understood by then why things did not feel right at the beginning.
Take in the prose, especially the "encounters", ''slowly''; the prose is seemingly opaque and verbose, but it becomes very rewarding after getting used to the style. Think about it: Lovecraft does not have (or to be precise, ''didn't have'') at his disposal but the vocabulary of the English language to draw scenes as vivid (and horrific) as--eh, again--[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg this].
Start exercising those imagination-muscles of yours, soldier!
* You might wish to check the works of ''Thomas Ligotti'' as well.
* You might also wish to read the Dunwich Horror after reading The Call of Cthulhu as well as Haunter in the Dark after The Colour Out of Space.
 
== G.K.Chesterton ==
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==Italo Calvino==
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==James Joyce==
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== John Hawkes ==
== Speculative Fiction Authors ==
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== Joseph McElroy ==
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== Kurt Vonnegut ==
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== László Krasznahorkai ==
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== Marilynne Robinson ==
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==Marquis de Sade==
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== Max Weber ==
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==Natsumi Soseki==
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== Mikhail Bulgakov ==
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==Neil Gaiman==
* You do not really have to read through the whole Sandman series (seventy plus issues ignoring the spin-off series) before delving through the rest of his work; the first volume is more than enough to give you a taste and a feeling of Gaiman's style.
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== Plato ==
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== Philip Kindred Dick ==
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==Robert Anton Wilson==
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==Thomas Mann==
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==Thomas Pynchon==
After getting a taste of Pynchon's writing, check the '''''introduction''''' of his short stories (or novellas, depending on your definition of thereof) collection ''Slow Learner''. The rest of the book (that is, the stories themselves) are understandably borderline OK, so do not bother reading them unless you want to see how young Pynchon practiced his trade.<gallery widths="149">
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== Stanisław Lem ==
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== William Borroughs ==
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== William Faulkner ==
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==William Shakespeare==
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==William T. Vollmann==
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== Vladimir Nabokov ==
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==Yukio Mishima==
== Thinkers and Ideologues ==
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[[Category:Natsume Soseki]]
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Weber, Max.jpg|Weber
Zubiri.png|Zubiri
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Latest revision as of 08:56, 20 August 2023

Literature

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Thinkers and Ideologues