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James Joyce

Irish modernist novelist (1882–1941) whose 'Ulysses' (1922) is widely considered the defining work of literary modernism...

20TH Century Experimental Modernism Irish

9.2 Excellent

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Marcel Proust

French novelist (1871–1922) whose seven-volume 'In Search of Lost Time' (1913–1927) is among the longest and most celebr...

Classic French 20TH Century Memory

9.2 Excellent

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Cormac McCarthy

American novelist celebrated for his bleak, violent themes and his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road.

American 20TH Century Dark Literary

9.1 Excellent

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Samuel Beckett

Irish novelist and playwright awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature, best remembered for his landmark absurdist pla...

20TH Century Experimental Absurdism Irish

9.1 Excellent

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Thomas Mann

German novelist who won the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature for his epic, symbol-laden masterpiece The Magic Mountain.

German Psychological 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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Ralph Ellison

American writer whose sole published novel during his lifetime, *Invisible Man* (1952), won the National Book Award and...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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James Baldwin

American novelist and essayist whose works, including *Go Tell It on the Mountain* (1953), profoundly explored racial, c...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

9.0 Excellent

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Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist whose 1958 debut novel Things Fall Apart is a foundational text of modern African literature.

20TH Century Literary African Nigerian

8.9 Great

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Italo Calvino

Italian author renowned for his experimental, fantastical works such as Invisible Cities and his contributions to postmo...

Italian 20TH Century Magical Realism Experimental

8.8 Great

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Fernando Pessoa

Portuguese poet and writer celebrated for his profound modernist explorations of multiple literary personas (heteronyms)...

Philosophical 20TH Century Experimental Modernism

8.7 Great

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Jean-Paul Sartre

French existentialist novelist and philosopher who famously declined the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature, known for his n...

French Philosophical 20TH Century Political

8.7 Great

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Lu Xun

Chinese writer of the early 20th century, celebrated as the founder of modern Chinese literature for his biting social c...

20TH Century Literary Chinese Modernism

8.6 Great

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Zora Neale Hurston

American author and anthropologist who was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for her 1937 novel *Th...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

8.5 Great

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Maya Angelou

American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist best known for her 1969 autobiography *I Know Why the Caged Bird Sin...

African American American 20TH Century Literary

8.5 Great

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Simone de Beauvoir

French novelist and feminist theorist whose seminal 1949 treatise 'The Second Sex' became a foundational text of modern...

French Philosophical 20TH Century Existential

8.5 Great

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Clarice Lispector

Brazilian novelist celebrated for her modernist, introspective works and her dense, existential 1964 masterpiece *The Pa...

20TH Century Experimental Literary Feminist

8.5 Great

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Junichiro Tanizaki

Prominent Japanese author whose novels, including "The Makioka Sisters," masterfully explore the clash between tradition...

Aesthetics Japanese Psychological 20TH Century

8.5 Great

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João Guimarães Rosa

Brazilian writer celebrated for his linguistically complex 1956 regionalist masterpiece *The Devil to Pay in the Backlan...

20TH Century Experimental Literary Regional

8.2 Great

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André Gide

French novelist and 1947 Nobel Laureate celebrated for his exploration of morality and freedom in provocative works like...

French Psychological 20TH Century Literary

8.0 Great

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Nathalie Sarraute

French novelist and pioneer of the Nouveau Roman movement, known for her experimental work 'Tropisms' that explores the...

Psychological 20TH Century Experimental French Russian

7.3 Good