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Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:24:25 2014 No.5177270 [DELETED]

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Do modern day classics exist?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:25:57 2014 No.5177277 File: 15 KB, 200x305, 200px-The_God_Delusion_UK.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] yep, pic related

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:25:57 2014 No.5177276 No. Go back to the olden times. Of yore.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:27:24 2014 No.5177285 >>5177270 The Kite Runner.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:28:18 2014 No.5177289 The whole point of something being labeled a 'classic', is that it has stood the test of time. 'modern day classic' is a paradox

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Wed Jul 23 12:30:32 2014 No.5177296 File: 100 KB, 800x1321, Le Guin - The Dispossessed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5177270 Where doth thou place the Modern Ages start, OP?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:33:23 2014 No.5177298 >>5177289 >>5177296 Lets make the question more specific, have any books come out since the turn of the millennium that is on par with the classics of old?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:33:27 2014 No.5177299 >>5177277 8.5/10

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:33:35 2014 No.5177300 >>5177289 not really

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:34:54 2014 No.5177302 >>5177298 yeah definitely

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:35:34 2014 No.5177304 >>5177298 GRRM.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:36:36 2014 No.5177306 >>5177298 Fault in our Stars.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Wed Jul 23 12:37:59 2014 No.5177310 File: 113 KB, 448x352, Data correction.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5177298 . . . ...I'm working on it, ALRIGHT!?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:40:12 2014 No.5177313 File: 71 KB, 311x475, maradonia.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5177298

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:42:02 2014 No.5177317 >>5177285 Was completely shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:43:59 2014 No.5177319 >>5177277 0/10 try harder next time

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:48:41 2014 No.5177331 File: 27 KB, 257x388, zadie.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] You bet

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:49:28 2014 No.5177333 >>5177304 0/10 try again

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 12:56:20 2014 No.5177361 No, because literature is dead. All you get today is generic genre fiction trash.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:19:56 2014 No.5177431 Earthly Powers by Burgess.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:23:56 2014 No.5177445 Only time can tell.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Wed Jul 23 13:25:41 2014 No.5177452 File: 54 KB, 434x648, Mason - Lost Books of the Odyssey.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is quite good and shouldn't be missed by Homer fans. Donno about "classics" though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:28:10 2014 No.5177458 >>5177298 The ideas of 'classic' and 'canonic' are bound the the literary and intellectual culture that will die out in our century. Both terms will be anachronisms in the next century.

Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:40:01 2014 No.5177496

>>5177458
>80% male Chinese society occupies the rabble by sending stormtroopers into Muslim territories to carry out genocide
>United States consists of several starving dictatorial fiefdoms in perpetual war with one another
>nobody knows who Shakespeare is or what the word "feminism" means
Good times are a comin

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:41:59 2014 No.5177504 >>5177452 i like that book a lot, but i wouldn't say it's a classic. it's obviously the work of a talented writer who's read a lot of borges and calvino and has a go himself, and whilst it's great, it's not at the same level

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:42:50 2014 No.5177508 >>5177270 Though it'll likely pass away mostly unread in North america, I'll bet Knausgaard's Min Camp will be regarded as a classic in the future, beyond the fawning gush of the press. It really is fantastic.

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Wed Jul 23 13:44:30 2014 No.5177520 >>5177504 Not saying it is (I am saying The Dispossessed is)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:47:42 2014 No.5177530 >>5177270 "New Classics" was the name of a movie series run by TNT that included such masterpieces as "Exit Wounds" and "Rain Man." So in a way, sure they exist today.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 13:48:22 2014 No.5177532 >>5177270 January 23rd, 1874 was a modern day.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 14:24:08 2014 No.5177694 >>5177300 Yes really

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 14:31:06 2014 No.5177729 >>5177496 this would make a good comedy. have you seen idiocracy?

>>	Feminister !!F9QVQ82MjmE Wed Jul 23 14:35:07 2014 No.5177750 >>5177298 We don't know yet. There might be a masterpiece that didn't get adequate capitalist promotion and it could take fifty or a hundred years before someone "discovers" it and then it becomes hailed by critics everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 20:54:23 2014 No.5179114 File: 24 KB, 260x390, 9781440623691_p0_v1_s260x420.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Evocative.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 20:56:19 2014 No.5179127 >>5177750 This is the truest answer I can think of.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:50:54 2014 No.5179322 >>5177750 Did this ever happen to other books that are considered 'classics' today?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 21:56:32 2014 No.5179333 >>5179322 Moby Dick immediately comes to mind.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 23 22:13:13 2014 No.5179388 >>5177298 yes also from now on call them contemporary not modern

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