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Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun) is great and a common recommendation along these lines. Ishiguro's The Buried Giant from last year asks to be described as Lit
by hullo 11y ago
Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun) is great and a common recommendation along these lines.
Ishiguro's The Buried Giant from last year asks to be described as Literary Fiction with a fantasy setting.
But chasing down "If you liked Gene Wolfe you might like.." recommendations online would probably be fruitful.
- username223 11y agoI loved "Remains of the Day" and "Never Let Me Go", but didn't finish "The Buried Giant." The first two aren't fantasy, but IMHO they're much better Ishiguro. As for "literature-y" fantasy, I'd agree with others here to look at magical realism, e.g. "One Hundred Years of Solitude." But my opinion is probably crap -- some of my fantasy favorites are Tolkien's "Silmarillion" and "Lost Tales," which probably don't qualify as "great literature," but show some amazingly thorough and vivid world-building.