>Just for fun, I decided to think of two random lists of >American and French 20th century novelists (Proust is not >20th century to me): > >Dos Passos >Faulkner >Norman Mailer >Dashiell Hamett >Chester Himes >Raymond Chandler >Ralph Ellison >James Ellroy >Jim Harrison >Jerome Charyn >Richard Ford >Saul Bellow >Philip Roth > >vs > >Aragon (who I like a little) >Mauriac >Camus (...) >Marguerite Duras (I'm having trouble keeping composure while >writing this...) >Philippe Djian (mwahahaha...)
dude, did you just say norman mailer v camus?
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dude, come on. and if you're going to put in a chester himes or a raymond chandler, what about simenon?
and where is marcel ayme or marguerite yourcenar (duras was a scary thing to say) or queneau or perec or colette (speaking of les plaisirs de la chair) ?
i'm not saying i like all of the above, but i like almost none of your list, and half are not close to canonical importance. why can't you accept french superiority, dammit?! : P
random aside: jean gabin and i have a date to see that movie about transporting pork across paris, based on a marcel ayme novel. i am excited.