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Originally Posted by issybird
I think Heart of Darkness is a little too early, 1899. I'd have liked to nominate it myself.
Post-1970 is killing me. The books just don't have the intellectual heft of earlier years.
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Really? What about Calvino, Eco, Rushdie, Yan?
I think there was a definite shift as with all media which may not mesh with how everyone views the heft of works, but the ground covered in the newer authors is stunning. I think its harder to find those works now given how many books are published, but they are there. I just think we aren't given the benefit of time to do a little bit of sorting for us.