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Originally Posted by kalwisti
It's almost impossible for me to list specific book titles, but I can mention two writers who changed my world view: R. K. Narayan (1906-2001) and Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991).
Narayan created the fictional town of Malgudi, located "somewhere in South India," which is a microcosm of India itself. His characters come from all castes, have a variety of personality types and attitudes towards life.
Singer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1978, richly describes the Jewish experience both in Eastern Europe and through Jewish-American immigrants. I was tempted to study Yiddish, just so that I could read his works in the original. (That is still on my bucket list).
These gifted writers gave me an insider's glimpse of cultures which are very different from my own.
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Would go along with Singer being a big impact for me. As far as writing style impact
The Stranger opened my eyes to what writing could do. I'd never read anything like it.