European Modernists 1-19
17 entries in the European Modernists compendium.
Italo SvevoItalian and Austro-Hungarian writer, pioneer of the psychological novel.Ivan CankarSlovene modernist writer and political activist.Ivan GoncharovRussian novelist of Oblomov and other major works.Jaroslav HašekCzech satirist and author of the novel Good Soldier Švejk.Jean RhysBritish Creole novelist, author of Wide Sargasso Sea.Joseph RothAustro-Hungarian journalist and novelist of the Habsburg decline.Knut HamsunNorwegian writer who pioneered psychological literature and won the Nobel Prize.Louis-Ferdinand CélineFrench novelist and physician, controversial for antisemitism.Mario Vargas LlosaPeruvian novelist, essayist, and Nobel laureate in literature.Michel ButorFrench experimental novelist and poet associated with structuralism.Milan KunderaCzech and French novelist, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.Muriel SparkScottish novelist known for wit and moral ambiguity.Robert MusilAustrian modernist novelist and philosophical writer.Roberto BolañoChilean writer known for novels The Savage Detectives and 2666.Mervyn PeakeBritish writer and artist known for the Gormenghast books.Patrick SüskindGerman writer known for the novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.Octave MirbeauFrench novelist and playwright known for transgressive works and avant-garde appeal.
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