/lit/ - Literature

Consensus says Huck Finn

>>6671068
dont waste your time on american "literature"

>>6671092

It's so boring though, and its length is bloated. The dialect is fucking tedious.

>inb4pleb

>>6671098
>The dialect is fucking tedious.
Were you born in the USA?

>>6671106

Yes. Raised in Texas.

>>6671106
Southern drawls are tedious. The being that they disclose isn't even that interesting.

>>6671098
>The dialect is fucking tedious.

I'll never understand this criticism. Why do so many people have problems with elisions and dialect in text? Blows my mind.

But yeah, it's Huck Finn.

>>6671096
>dont waste your time on american "literature"

There is no nation on earth that half-approaches the greatness of American literature since its founding.

>>6671132
Fuck off Yankee scum

>>6671140
are you an undergraduate by any chance, newtrip?

>>6671140
No.. French and Russian have been better.

>>6671151
>are you an undergraduate by any chance, newtrip?

No.

>>6671197
ah, a dropout then

>>6671152
>No.. French and Russian have been better.

Not really. Russia's literary standing has not been much contributed to in over 100 years, and for every great French writer, there are probably a half-dozen American ones.

This is certainly true of books as well.

>>6671201
>ah, a dropout then

Your guesses keep getting shittier.

>>6671201
Bachem is a virgin and a Dilettante. I suggest filtering him.

Nearly fuckin' died laughing at A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. I'd say it's his funniest work, save for Letters From the Earth, but that one hardly counts, it's like 50 pages. Huck Finn is probably his agreed upon best though.

>>6671217
>Bachem is a virgin and a Dilettante. I suggest filtering him.

People who can't argue their perspective probably should, and you should be the first of them to do it.

>>6671152
>French
Definitely not true
>Russian
There are a number of great works there, but communism pretty much ruined everything (besides allowing for great works by dissidents).

>>6671096
You're pretty dumb m8, Twain's works have garnered acclaim both in the US and abroad.
>>6671140
You're as dumb as he is, don't talk nonsense. Yes, the US is probably #1 (whatever the fuck that means in reference to modern nationalism regarding artistic production) only considering the last 50 or 60 years, but it still isn't on level with Britain, and probably still won't be 100 years from today. As for Russia, you and I both know the US has yet to produce a man of Tolstoy's elite caliber

>>6671303
>Twain's works have garnered acclaim both in the US and abroad.
so has dr seuss, fuck off back to reddit undergrad

>>6671310
So what's bad about his work then? Or is hiding behind le undergrad meme your only mode of defense?

>>6671317
there's nothing bad about dr seuss' work either, it's just a waste of time

>>6671068
"A Dog's Tale"
>mfw

>>6671320
Vague mutterings won't get you out of this one m8, how can you say there's no value in Huckleberry Finn? TS Eliot and Ernest Hemingway were wrong to like it?

>>6671332
that's not what i said at all you illiterate cuck, there's no reason to read cat in the hat past early childhood just like there's no reason to read american "literature" once you've graduated

#1 is Huck Finn, but you gotta read Tom Sawyer first to really appreciate everything that's brilliant about Huck Finn

Connecticut Yankee is brilliant too. Roughing It is good. His autobiography is good. I haven't read anything else.

>>6671351
So "it's just a waste of time," but it's not worthless? How exactly do you reconcile judging others as illiterate and having such a simple minded mode of reasoning all at once?

Anyway I'll let that shit go, just get the point already. I've been asking you to tell my why huck finn isn't worth what these acclaimed scholars say it is. Can you do it or are desperate insults and shitty vague handwaving?

>>6671386
>So "it's just a waste of time," but it's not worthless?
kek, if you can't understand english maybe you should duck out

>>6671405
>ignores the second half of the post
I accept your surrender bb

>>6671303
>You're as dumb as he is, don't talk nonsense. Yes, the US is probably #1 (whatever the fuck that means in reference to modern nationalism regarding artistic production) only considering the last 50 or 60 years, but it still isn't on level with Britain, and probably still won't be 100 years from today. As for Russia, you and I both know the US has yet to produce a man of Tolstoy's elite caliber

Well, the question dates from the founding of the United States, which neatly severs England's greatest writers from consideration. Counting Britain's other countries is the only thing that keeps England in the conversation.

Tolstoy is great, but I don't think he's a better writer than Melville.

>>6671351
>that's not what i said at all you illiterate cuck, there's no reason to read cat in the hat past early childhood just like there's no reason to read american "literature" once you've graduated

Where are you from?

>>6671409
>appeal to authority

you want me to respond to a fallacy? for every scholar that praises american literature there are dozens who don't lad

>>6671429
>for every scholar that praises american literature there are dozens who don't lad
Just pick one then. Refute Eliot's praise and I'll be satisfied.
>for every scholar that praises american literature there are dozens who don't lad
No shit sherlock, I'm asking you to respond to the ones who do. Goddamn, do you really have a degree? Please tell me English isn't your first language, this is absolutely embarrassing.

>>6671439
>Refute Eliot's praise and I'll be satisfied
how delusional are you to have to be to resort to fallacies

i don't have to do anything lad, better authors have smashed twain twice as hard as eliot praised him

>>6671464
>appeal to authority
I've told you already, I want you to refute his points. If you can't contend with him, you've nothing but the very fallacy (as though a series syllogisms is appropriate in a conversation about art to begin with) you've accused me of committing.