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America is always chasing about the Great American Novel, but what would be a contender for the Great British Novel, Great French Novel or Great Russian Novel?

>> No.18586272
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18586272

>>18586261
I must say, I do love being American.

>> No.18586279

>>18586261
They chase the novel because they were too late for the epic poem

>> No.18586311

>>18586261
All the Illinois books are lame.

>> No.18586364

>>18586261
Is the shining actually that good?

>> No.18586376

>>18586261
Among others:
>Great British Novel,
Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, The Ring and the Book, Great Expectations, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and To the Lighthouse.
>Great French Novel
In Search of Lost Time, The Red and the Black, and Les Misérables.
>or Great Russian Novel?
Eugene Onegin, War and Peace, and any of Dusty's big hits.

>> No.18586983
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>tfw no great canadian novel

>> No.18587024

>>18586983
canada makes up for having leonard cohen

>> No.18587060

>>18586983
How does it feel to have Margaret Atwood represent your entire literary canon? Asking for a friend

>> No.18587107

>>18586272
Grotesque

>> No.18587113

>>18587060
It's Alice Munro.

>> No.18587455

>>18587024
Give me crack, anal sex,
Take the only tree that's left
and lie beside me, baby,
that's an order

G*D I wish I lived in this song

>> No.18587603
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>> No.18587645

>>18587107
normal for kikes to hate structure

>> No.18587650

>>18587603
Okay pedantic nigger, call a Canadian or Brazilian an American and see how that works for you.

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>>18586261
>tfw when no great american novel has been produced by your entire region, let alone state

>> No.18587666

>>18587650


THE DEMONYM OF UNITEDSTATES IS: «UNITEDSTATIAN», NOT: «AMERICAN».

>> No.18587682

>>18586261
that image is fucking horrible

>> No.18587684

>>18586261
>immediately look to the lower left corner
>The Shining

Instantly discredited, stopped reading right there

>> No.18588041

>>18587645
>Thinking he can protect his daughters virginity from my buck breaking cock
Kek you're funny anon.

>> No.18588321

>>18587682
Which one of your favourites is missing?

>> No.18588366

>>18588321
there's hardly anything from the 19th century. any list that doesn't include The Last of the Mohicans, The Scarlet Letter, and Henry James is a sham. There are also 0 major postmodern novels and hardly any major modernist novels (dos Passos' U.S.A. isn't there). And there's way too much genre fiction, trendy authors that won't be remembered (Eugenides), and just plain filler.

>> No.18589759

>>18588366
>0 major postmodern novels
Good.
>hardly any major modernist novels
So it still needs improvement, from hardly any to none.