> idiots. And, if the content of our subjectivity is so much better, where
> are our Checkhovs? our Tolstoys? our Orwells? our Lessings?
Heiner Mueller, Toni Morrison and Can Xue all come to mind. Orwell is not someone I'd cite as a great writer, more of a moralist and stylist than an aesthetic innovator. Interesting, sure, but not in the same class as the other three. My own list of the great artists of the 1950-2000 period:
http://www.efn.org/~dredmond/globalspace.html
-- Dennis