The writers who continue to be read in the next fifty years will be those who move people. And in addition, they will be somewhat overlooked in their own time, which will ensure that future readers will feel the cheap satisfaction of looking down on those who could not perceive the breadth of vision of the authors at the time.
Good bets are: Alexander Solzhenitsyn for First Circle and Cancer Ward (Nobel prize but forgotten like SALT II after the Cold War), Yukio Mishima for the Sea of Fertility tetrology (his Nobel was given Yasunari Kawabata in '68, and boy(!) was he angry), and Mark Helprin whose A Soldier of the Great War will probably last as long as anything human.
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The writers who continue to be read in the next fifty years will be those who move people. And in addition, they will be somewhat overlooked in their own time, which will ensure that future readers will feel the cheap satisfaction of looking down on those who could not perceive the breadth of vision of the authors at the time.
Good bets are: Alexander Solzhenitsyn for First Circle and Cancer Ward (Nobel prize but forgotten like SALT II after the Cold War), Yukio Mishima for the Sea of Fertility tetrology (his Nobel was given Yasunari Kawabata in '68, and boy(!) was he angry), and Mark Helprin whose A Soldier of the Great War will probably last as long as anything human.