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11391075

Anonymous Fri Jun 29 13:50:30 2018 No.11391075 [Reply] [Original]

what is tha moby dick of your country?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 13:51:58 2018 No.11391082 >>11391075 Moby-Dick

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 13:56:12 2018 No.11391102 >>11391082 xD

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 14:13:29 2018 No.11391170 >>11391075 As a foundational piece of the nation's literature?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:21:55 2018 No.11391397 >>11391075 As a foudational piece: The Mangy Parrot. As an emblematic novel: Pedro Páramo.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:26:25 2018 No.11391417 File: 735 KB, 1524x2339, 9781847496287.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11391075 Dead Souls i guess

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:29:50 2018 No.11391427 >>11391075 Could we maybe come up with a list of such works by country? Here are a few off the top of my head: >Colombia One Hundred Years of Solitude >Russia War and Peace >China Romance of the Three Kingdoms

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:35:40 2018 No.11391448 So we're looking for novels that are too damn long, highly overrated, and held up as a paragon of literature despite no one reading it in the past 100 years?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:38:18 2018 No.11391458 A novel which is both very long and influential? War & Peace.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:43:06 2018 No.11391471 >>11391448 But Moby dick has actually been more popular since the 1920s or so than it ever was in the 19th century when it was still new

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:43:41 2018 No.11391474 >>11391075 Mah dick.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:44:36 2018 No.11391476 File: 359 KB, 1600x1050, 1524445489621.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11391448

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:46:53 2018 No.11391483 >>11391075 Paradise Lost Both great symbolic epics written by poets of genius who took life and religion and philosophy seriously enough to make these sorts of works of art even possible.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 15:50:57 2018 No.11391500 three Long Island negroes

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 16:42:47 2018 No.11391667 >>11391075 My diary desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 21:59:34 2018 No.11392596 i don't really get what you mean but os sertões i guess

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 22:03:08 2018 No.11392616 Ulysses

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 22:59:12 2018 No.11392772 how do so many retards not understand what the question is asking for

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:01:42 2018 No.11392779 Martin Fierro?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jun 29 23:02:45 2018 No.11392782 Het verdriet van België, I guess.