/lit/ - Literature

>>13016788
He was definitely well-known on the continent, I don't dispute that, but he had no influence on American or British literature until after the formative period of our novels primarily because no one could read them in English. Generally the only notable foreign influence on our novels is Don Quixote and some of the avant-garde types Leavis championed were interested in French novels, German philosophy, and the Italian renaissance... but not Mother Russia's contributions. It was only during the deeply ideological 1920's and 30's that American and British authors engaged seriously with the Rooshians (as Pound called them)...

>>12987119
Ah, yeah. We like her rosary videos.