/lit/ - Literature

>>9802025

The moral thrust of Huckleberry Finn is entirely defeated by the last thirteen or so chapters. Definitely not my first choice.

>>9802028

White Noise is written with such affected, inhuman voice that the novel prevents itself from being representative of anything close to a larger American experience. Probably the worst choice out of the three, even with the terrible final third of Huck.

>>9802029

Probably the best choice out of these three, but it almost supersedes the ambition of an 'American' novel. The main foci of the book (Ahab, Starbuck, Moby-Dick) and Ishmael as the outside narrator present a larger cosmic struggle than what the book initially operates on when Ishmael is first interacting with Queequeg in the port towns.

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My pick is the Invisible Man. It examines the lingering tensions and paradoxes of race in America through the lens of the hallucinogenic and the warped. The Romantic lens really is the best means of examining the American psyche, and the shift of location by way of the Great Migration (and the narrator's own experience and reasons for this move) gives the book a larger comparative scope between north and south. There are a lot of people here who meme it because "lol le blacks have no IQ" but no one who has read Ellison would seriously think of the man as unintelligent.

>>6348585
>"Before that people were mad that I thought To Kill a Mockingbird was condescending towards blacks."
>mfw these faggot white liberals circlejerk over an average novel about gossip in suburbia and seriously take pride in their understanding of the predicament of blacks

>>5290175
It's really good. The prose is excellent and the story itself is a very realistic look at racial tensions and politics. Probably one of my favirote books.