Nov 12, 2008 12:29 AM
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There are many of those who call themselves fiction and nonfiction writers, but the only thing that distinguishes them and the classics is that the classics never stop saying even after the pen is down.
I regard these below mentioned authors as not only best but to be the only best in what they do.
Vyasa and Valmiki for Mahabharatha and Ramayana and other authors for upanishads and sutras.
Karl Marx and Frederich Engels: For Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. The only ones who recognized class struggle and thought of doing something for the poor and the downtrodden.
Paulo Coelho: For the best fiction I have ever read, The Alchemist. For his narration and his style and for a story that can inspire you a million times over and over again and again.
Gabriel Garcia Marques: For his none other than "100 Years of Solitude" that can give you the exact picture of today's "Glasshouse society."
M.T. Vasudhevan Nair: For his none other "Randam Uzham" which give an alternate idea or rather an alternate view point on the life of the character Bhima from Mahabharata. The description itself is so powerful as to make you the eye of "Dhrutharashtra", the father of "Kauravas, " "Sanjaya."
Salman Rushdie: For his visionary thoughts depicted in the Fiction work "The Midnight's Children." The fiction not only shows what india is from the view point of Salim Senai, but also states India's everlasting hunger for growth.
R. K. Narayan: For his "Malgudi Days" and "Guide." Malgudi Days will bring you back to home when you were child and with its sweet melody it will enchant you. Whereas, Guide will make you go through the emotional contradictions and spiritual statements in life along with the protagonist. It will make you wander across India to find a common emotion and the common devotion that we Indians have.
Erlich Seagal: What can I say about a book called "Love Story." The book is simple and only one of a kind. The narration itself has the beauty that the reader will get mesmerized with its charm and be transformed into pure and divine love at least for moment of so after reading it.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. The man who suffered. The greatest novelist ever lived. One of the profound speakers of humanism. The space provided here will not be sufficient to describe the man. It was he who brought the suffering of mankind to paper. His psychological insights in all his works are revealing, astounding, and I can feel nothing but gratitude towards him for writing such class novels. "Crime and Punishment."
Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy: Resurrection, Anna Karanina, War and Peace. His work can be regarded as a base of communism and socialism. His characters can be seen as rebels who came to know the society and its gimmicks. The suffering of the poor described in his works will feel like the suffering of the readers.
Though I have provided 10 authors who I regard with great esteem, these authors cannot be compared with each other. They have proved themselves in different ways. They reaped their success where others have failed.
