/lit/ - Literature

>>19107750

>>13730461

>>9412561

>>8765343
>Latin or Esperanto

>>8510378
i don't know if you're kidding but i'd like to actually talk about this a bit.

i don't think that's really what one should use to gauge, but knock him off the list then. still have to deal with those other authors.

and its not really detracting from how good she is to say she's not the best. she's good enough to be talked about as *one of* the best. i say this as a black female american (in a class on morrison no less), not /pol/ or anything: i don't really think she's in the running for best american author overall because what she writes is so concentrated on black americans.

though what >>8510399 says is intersting, because its kind of the opposite. i agree that it actually does give her a lot of 'american' merit at the same time.

i really don't know who to pick. i kind of want to say faulkner but i haven't read enough of him and i haven't read melville or pynchon, or the other authors i mentioned recently enough to really talk about them.

>>8277192

>>8054381

>>7865443
>Tolkien
>high quality

>>7288112

>>6398910

>>6140032

>>6101235

>>5518268

>>4663602
This is some high quality bait goddamn.

>starts off condescending
>absurd historical assertions mixed with fact
>just stupid enough that an actual person might hold these opinions

>>4223988