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Pastimes : A CENTURY OF LIONS/THE 20TH CENTURY TOP 100 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (1520)	11/12/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 3246

Then here comes the embryo of my own list -- of most influential literary figures of the century. Criteria: Not necessarily the best, but the most influential.. Two kinds of influence: 1) stylistic, 2) thematic. Influence must be world-wide -- at least, not limited to own linguistic group. In some cases, it is one particular work that explains the international influence of a particular writer/poet. That will be indicated. The following is a Short List: Franz Kafka T.S. Eliot ("The Waste Land") James Joyce Ernest Hemingway Alexander Solzhenitsyn ("The Gulag Archipelago") Samuel Beckett ("Waiting for Godot") Jorge Luis Borges Rainer Maria Rilke Note that the above does not contain the names of some of my favorite writers (e.g., Thomas Mann). Nor does it contain the name of the author of my all-time favorite 20th century novel: The Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov If any of you have not read this book, read it! You are in for a rare, rare treat!! (It's up on the web, incidentally.)