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So what do we like .
Me In Fiction

Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Valgardson,Thomas King,Mordecai Richler, Gabrielle Roy, Sinclair Ross, Coupland

In Poetry

Atwood, Irving Layton, PK Page,Leonard Cohen,Ondantje

― anthony, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In translation: OuLiPo (mainly Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, and Italo Calvino); Jorge Luis Borges, Haruki Murakami, Yukio Mishima, Milorad Pavic, Mikhail Bulghakov, Milan Kundera; and plenty of other stuff. I find myself in the position of liking literature better in translation.

In English: John Barth, Donald Antrim, David Foster Wallace (go ahead and attack), Truman Capote, Nicholson Baker, Don Delillo (attack again!), Flann O'Brien.

Very much in favor of an "I Love Literature" board.

― Nitsuh, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

? I think the idea is to pick Canadians, Nitsuh. At least for this thread. ;)

― Josh, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

douglas coupland, leonaard cohen...is there anyone else that lives in canada? Myabe Hard Core Logo.

― Geoff, Saturday, 21 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ondantje bores me silly. Middlebrow (hah!) or rather useless luxury.

― Sterling Clover, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

His novels are shit. His poetry is casual and graceful. With all these asides that manage to engage all the base senses and higher powers. The same with Atwood.

― anthony, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bryan Adams is a great Canadian poet.

"I'm going to be 18 till I die..." What a line!

― Johnathan, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kerouac is a Canadian, but then, his books suck. 'Mona Lisa Overdrive' is also crap.

― Dave Q, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't think Atwood's novels are crap. In fact I rather liked Edible Woman.

― Josh, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I didn't understand the excessively obscure thread title any better than the admirable Nitsuh did. Hey! all that de Selby must have decimated our grasp of abbreviations.

Canned Heat: Search & Destroy.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well the big list of Canadians anthony gave was an additional clue. ;)

― Josh, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

To you, yes. To me none of them 'shriek' CANADA; Atwood is the most obvious maybe.

― the pinefox, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sadly if Atwood is on a list of authors and they're not all women, then they're probably all Canadian.

― Josh, Sunday, 22 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Coupland, Odantje, Atwood,Richler all seem really obvious to me.
Almost all foreigners know one of them in my expperince. and if you live in France insert Roy.

― anthony, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Forgive me, Lord, for I was drinking.

On the train, on the way to work this morning, I was considering the question, and I thought to myself: Anthony sure likes a lot of Canadian stuff. Followed by: Oh, shit, I am a complete idiot.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm reading the diviners. it's so not juicy for such a controversial book. geez, no one even thinks about sex for 100 pages.

i liked ondaatje's coming through slaughter. why is it middlebrow?

i'm generally not a huge fan of canlit. i used to like irving layton but i really don't know if i'd like him now. leonard cohen should be taken to the street and publicly spanked but that's more for his abject music. early coupland, especially microserfs, was enjoyable as pure fluff but polaroids from the dead and girlfriend in a coma join the handmaid's tale among the worst books of all time. buckler's the mountain and the valley was decent, as was davies' fifth business. none of them were really major experiences for me.

― sundar subramanian, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

R.I.P. Mordecai Richler. If you haven't read Barney's Version I highly reccomend it, if not only for the gorgeous cover.

― Dave M., Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Atwood and Ondaatje are good calls. And um . . . William Gibson?

― bnw, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anne of green gables: canada`s great contribution to literature?

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 26 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farms Americas.
Because it is the same steaming pile of ficking red headed shit.

― anthony, Friday, 27 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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