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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
May I respectfully disagree on one point?
There are many "classics" written after 1923. Hemmingway, Faulkner, Chandler, Steinbeck, are among the authors that would be considered "classics".
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If you're talking litfic, then you might as well stop with James Joyce. No author is ever going to be more modernistic than him, and no works more modernistic (and incomprehensible) than
Finnegan's Wake or
Ulysses. Which actually makes the whole discussion about keeping later books moot. There's no point in keeping later authors available, because they're never going to top him, and no future literary movements to have their own great authors.
After all, you can never be more modern than modern, right? *nasty litfic prof possum grin*