To discuss and recommend authors and books from the 20th century in general.
A few great modern authors that come to mind and who’s works I’m quite familiarized are Albert Camus, Vladimir Nabokov, F Scott Fitzgerald, Jorge Luis Borges and even though they are still alive and publishing Mario Vargas Llosa (his older works are fantastic) and Kazuo Ishiguro (haven’t read Ishiguro yet, but i have “never let me go” on my reading list)
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The Cowards by Josef Skvorecky is a good one and describes day to day life of young men and partisan activity in nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.
It was banned postwar by the gommies because he dared to criticize them along the Nazis.
There’s one funny scene where a Czech is making out with a German girl and tells her he’s a mischling for a kek
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