I love stefan zweig's works and love how he is a niche author but highly rated still. I'd want a similar author that has a similar style to him: easy to read not too flowery but talks about complex human topics in a beautiful way. basically a good prose
I've seen similar style to: James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, Toni Morrison, Magda Szabo, Clarice Lispector
but they're pretty known. I'd want a niche author that has great body of works but still highly rated. basically an author you think deserves a revival (i know about nyrb books publishing not so known books but i'm looking for specific authors like zweig, not just one book, who deserves more hype because they're highly rated just not talked about on the internet)
I already know about these authors: Proust (too long for me), Herman Hesse (I do like him as an intellectual but as an author i think he lacks), Osamu Dazai, Yukio Mishima, Akutagawa, Thomas Bernhard, Rilke, Schnitzler (not high rated enough for me), W. Somerset, Gogol, Thomas Mann, Rand, Hamsun, Jack London, James Joyce (not so appealing to me), Rolland (not highly rated enough), Balzac (works too long for me), Iris Murdoch, WG Sebald, Kobo Abe, Robert Walser (not appealing enough), George Perec, Dambudzo, Emil Cioran, Melville, Faulkner, Eliot (too long), Austen, Nietszche, Kierkegaard, gene wolf (leaning into literatures not fantasya-ish), bruno schulz, borges, woolf, Zola
most of these authors only have 1-2 books that are highly rated so they don't spark too much interest to me i guess?
books i already know about but i need authors: hard rain falling (nyrb), journey by moonlight (need more good works from the author), the melancholy of resistance, cathedral, the invisible man by ralph ellison, the transit of venus, a heart so white, the leopard, one day in the life of ivan denisovich, the wild iris, a hero of our time, pierre and luce, the street of crocodiles, the reformatory by due, by night in chile, death in venice (read the sypnosis i don't like the idea of p*do), light years, the blue castle, a short stay in hell, address unknown, of human bondage, the oppermanns, something to do with paying attention, the land breakers (i prefer stand alones), the rings of saturn, dirty snow, warlock.
by bookofdisquietgirl
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French author Emmanuel Bove. Wrote mainly about loneliness, failure, isolation. Start with Mes amis (My Friends).