/lit/ - Literature

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>>22584581
I know someone that works at CBC books for years. I won't write their name though. This is simply the level they are at in terms of experiencing the world and how books should be. I dont read many Canadian books for this reason. But if you think about it a lot of books in all cultures fit this formula of identity and struggle.

Canada lacks the history and cultural infrastructure of England, France, USA, japan, Ireland to produce better. We had almost no people up until recently. Very very few liberal arts institutions and a very shy repressed population historically.
Perhaps only Alice Munro could say something more universal about the human experience. Atwood is kind of YA. Jewish Montreal lit is pretty insular.

The other other reason is this is what sells in book stores to the ppl like my acquaintance that works at CBC Books.

(Btw Canada has a fairly strong tradition of contemporary Marxist academia if that's a consolation)