Triumphant Return Appendix 1

Jubilee Hitchhiker by
William Hjortsberg

Bless you lovely people. I had a response from a reader to my previous post asking me which authors made the cut and survived the purge, and which were sent to the Gulag. So, in answer, in alphabetical order here are some of the authors whose books were deemed indispensable.

Paul Auster,

Nicholson Baker

John Barth

Thomas Bernhard

T.C. Boyle

Richard Brautigan

Italo Calvino

William Hjortsberg

Jonathan Carroll

Stephen Donaldson

Glen Duncan

Umberto Eco

Tibor Fischer

Richard Flanagan

Joseph Heller

W.F. Hermans

Bohumil Hrabal

Ismail Kadare

John D MacDonald (unread ones)

Harry Mulisch

Ryu Murakami (selected)

Cees Nooteboom

Viktor Pelevin

Thomas Pynchon

Jon Ronson

Will Self

Natsume Sōseki

Mark Twain

Kurt (and Mark) Vonnegut.

On reflection, I appear to be a serial literary misogynist, or, for the sake of my own vanity, whatever word is next down the taxonomic hierarchy of hate from misogyny. I did have some novels by women, I’m sure, but then they went to charity / the recycling bin so I’m not really able to defend myself with any robustness. I hope this answers your question.

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