swap_horiz Luigi Pirandello Alternatives

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Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian novelist (1927–2014) and Nobel laureate (1982) who pioneered magical realism with 'One Hundred Years of Solitu...

20TH Century Magical Realism Latin American Colombian

9.3 Excellent

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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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Albert Camus

French-Algerian philosopher and novelist, awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature, who articulated absurdist philosop...

20TH Century Absurdism Existential Nobel

9.2 Excellent

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Franz Kafka

Czech-German novelist (1883–1924) whose surreal, alienating works 'The Trial' and 'The Metamorphosis' gave rise to the a...

20TH Century Absurdism Czech Existential

9.1 Excellent

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Toni Morrison

American Nobel laureate (1993) whose novels, including 'Beloved' (1987), explore the African American experience with ly...

African American American 20TH Century Historical

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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William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and dramatist awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, remembered as a foundational figure of the Irish Li...

20TH Century Modernism Irish Nobel

9.0 Excellent

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William Faulkner

American novelist (1897–1962) and Nobel laureate (1949) whose stream-of-consciousness works set in fictional Yoknapatawp...

American 20TH Century Modernism Southern

8.9 Great

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Virginia Woolf

English modernist novelist (1882–1941) who pioneered stream-of-consciousness narrative in works such as 'Mrs Dalloway' (...

20TH Century British Feminist Modernism

8.8 Great

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

American novelist (1896–1940) whose 'The Great Gatsby' (1925) is a defining portrayal of the Jazz Age and the American D...

American 20TH Century Tragedy Jazz Age

8.8 Great

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John Steinbeck

American novelist (1902–1968) and Nobel laureate (1962) whose 'The Grapes of Wrath' (1939), depicting Dust Bowl migrants...

American 20TH Century Social Realism Depression Era

8.8 Great

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Russian novelist who exposed the brutality of the Soviet Gulag system in The Gulag Archipelago and won the 1970 Nobel Pr...

Russian 20TH Century Political Nobel

8.8 Great

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Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet and Nobel laureate who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature for his passionate, surrealist-inspired poetr...

20TH Century Latin American Chilean Nobel

8.8 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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Joseph Heller

American author best remembered for *Catch-22* (1961), a satirical World War II novel that introduced the concept of a p...

American 20TH Century Absurdism Satirical

8.8 Great

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Ernest Hemingway

American Nobel laureate (1954) whose spare, declarative prose style, developed in novels like 'The Sun Also Rises' (1926...

American 20TH Century Minimalism War

8.7 Great

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Joseph Conrad

Polish-born British novelist (1857–1924) whose 'Heart of Darkness' (1899) and 'Lord Jim' (1900) examine imperialism and...

Adventure 20TH Century Colonial Modernism

8.7 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