Writers from your country

That was unfair of me. Let me re-state my meanings...

I beleive 'writer' and 'thinker' ought to be synonymous for the simple reason that the people broadcasting 'thought' had ought to be intellient people, which, up until half a century ago, meant 'writer' (if for the simple fact that the common people were illiterate). Nowawadays, though, I don't know if that's necessarily the case. But I believe that good writers are able to enlighten the 'literate' class (meaning; "people who bother to try"), and provide them with insights as to the human condition.

Back to the subject... Sherwood Anderson would be another great writer from America, along the same lines as William Faulkner.
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Originally posted by Brian J Checco That was unfair of me. Let me re-state my meanings... I beleive 'writer' and 'thinker' ought to be synonymous for the simple reason that the people broadcasting 'thought' had ought to be intellient people, which, up until half a century ago, meant 'writer' (if for the simple fact that the common people were illiterate). Nowawadays, though, I don't know if that's necessarily the case. But I believe that good writers are able to enlighten the 'literate' class (meaning; "people who bother to try"), and provide them with insights as to the human condition.

I actually prefere Narziss and Goldmund and the Prodigy to the Glass Bead Game but that's probably because they are 'easier' reads. Doblin should also take a bow, he is greatly overlooked - November 1918: A German Revolution is a masterpiece. English authors worth checking against the likes of Dickens - Gissing - The Nether World - a much more evocative picture of Victorian London poverty than Dickens ever managed and Patrick Hamilton, brilliant books about London in the 1930s.     

Edited by Bowker's cat - 08-Mar-2007 at 20:29