The great era of 70s and 80s literary fiction writers, is coming to an end
It kind of dawned to me after hearing the news of Paul Auster's death that, we lost McCarthy,A.s Byatt, Martin Amis, Milan Kundera,Luis Gluck, Kenzaburo Oe last year
We have already lost John Barthe and Paul Auster this year.
László Krasznahorkai is 70
Margaret Atwood is 84
Alice Munro is 92
Thomas Pynchon is 86
Haruki Murakami is 75
Salman Rushdie is 76 Even Kazuo Ishiguro,Olga Tokarczuk, Jon Fosse, Yoko Ogawa are in their 60s. There must be many more. I am sure.
And I feel kind of sad because of that. You could call me naive and strange and parasocial, but when some of these people passed away I felt that I lost a dear friend. I am pretty sure that I will feel sad again in the future.
The only thing I could say is that they will live on through their fiction and poetry and the only thing I could wish is that they are able to find some sort of peaceful afterlife.