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Originally Posted by Pookie
Bukowski definitely.
Seemed like a revelation as a teenager, a load of old wank as an adult.
Same goes for Henry Miller.
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I agree, although I have never really cared (even when I was younger) for either of those authors. Both do write better books than most though, and the grittiness often equals page-turning entertainment, but writers of classics they're not.
Gustave Flaubert (friends with Turgenev, admired by Sartre) and D.H. Lawrence are two writers of classics that deal with many of the same sensual themes and similar satires of society, although each's seminal works are from the point-of-view of female protagonists. Of course, Lawrence also wrote plays; his pale in comparison to masters like Ibsen and Chekhov though.