/lit/ - Literature

there's Margaret Atwood's feminist allegories and...uh...

Rush album liner notes.

can't post that on a blue board

>>7030118
L'infinie Comedie

>>7030128
it's art

>>7030128
>>7030132
Can I post this?

Btw this is a serious question, literally never heard of any great/classic/popular literature from Canada (or NZ or Australia for that matter.).

>>7030118
i would say Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson but to be honest i've only heard praise from other people who have read it

Well I looked at the blue books (ie books that have an article) in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_writers , and the only titles I recognize are:
Neuromancer, The Life of Pi, and The Hardy Boys, and Scott Pilgrim. Haven't read any of them except I think I read one Hardy Boys book. Neuromancer's on my list.

It's all shit tbh

t. Canadian studying American lit

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

>>7030118

>>7030156
Dude The Hardy Boys is Canadian!?

>>7030174
That seems like a very specific subset of shitty contemporary books that no one reads.

>>7030182
>every American's reaction to finding out something is Canadian

>>7030188
the fuck do I care, I'm 'murrican.

>>7030188
>Live in Newfoundland
>We get all that except for the shitty bagpipes and Gaylick sayings

This is good.

>>7030182
Just researched and they were created by an American, and there were a lot of ghost writers, Canadian Leslie McFarlane being the most prominent early on.

>>7030190
Nothing about The Hardy Boys is uniquely Canadian though.

Hell you could set Trailer Park Boys in Maine and it wouldn't really change.

>>7030212

Have you ever been to Maine?

>>7030118

Sinclair Ross is top tier. Read "The Lamp at Noon" and if you like it, continue.

>>7030212
No, free health care is essential to the slap stick comedy of tpb

Canuck ryhmes with cuck

>>7030297

>>7030292
Yeah, the thought of trailer trash is frightening/bleak in America, but the social cushion of Canada makes it comical

Election in a couple months boys, who is the /lit/ candidate?

>>7030174
Kate Beaton is the living pulse of Canadian lit.

Anne of Green Gables
Billy the Kid (ondaatje)

The rest I didn't much care for.

>>7030622
corpses don't have pulses lad

>>7030433
none. they're all worthless centre garbage. boycott the elections

my diary tbh

>>7030433
well there's a fag, a cuck, and some dude with a beard. gonna have to go for beard.
>>7030166
also canada made me by norman levine, alice munro, a few poets...

>>7030871
JMP is forever our chairman!

Robertson Davies wrote a few good books. Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders.

>>7030174
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod + The Glace Bay Miner's Museum by Sheldon Currie = this comic.

Mordecai Richler, David Adams Richards, Robertson Davies, and Alden Nowlan are worth looking into.

>>7030118
Under the Volcano?

There are actually a lot of contemporary Canadian poets worth looking into like Ken Babstock, Don McKay, Anne Carson, Christian Bök, Karen Solie, Dennis Lee, Jan Zwicky, Sue Goyette, Anita Lahey, and many others.

>>7030127

>mfw

Hugh Maclennan's Two Solitudes is pretty excellent. It's mostly about the french/english divide.

>30 replies
>1 mention of Munro

Gj /lit/ way to confirm the stereotype that no one here actually reads/knows anything about literature

>>7031880

Muh dock

Timothy Findley getting slept on as always

>>7031945
>this bitch only heard of munro after she won the nobel prize and is being haughty about it
confirmed pleb

Anne Hebert
the bestest of the bestest

>>7032327
Munro is arguably the most important Canadian writer alive, and has been for way years before the Nobel.

Wacousta - The first Canadian novel.

RICHLER

>>7031935
Whoa he's a big guy?

Émile Nelligan for poetry. I don't know if the translated versions are any good though.

>>7032665

Apparently he's been having heart problems because of his weight

>>7030118
MUNRO

>>7030174
This is just 'the boat alistair macleod'

Real Canadian culture is about reminding you how cool natives are and how interesting native culture is every 5 minutes even though noone (not even the natives) actually believes it

>>7030174
as a Nova Scotian I can confirm this

>>7030118
Stuart Maclean.

Nah, Crad Kilodney.

>>7030118
Generation X

>>7033267

oh man, i found one of the four people from here

>>7033451
i'm nova scotian also haha

we're a rare species, bud

>>7032623
Second. Duddy Kravitz is one of the few realist novels I can stand.

>>7033680
Remember to beware of dentists.

>>7031945
and the only mention of Atwood is le epic feminist meme

>>7034532
because that's all she is
But seriously, Atwood's skill is knowing exactly what to write about. She's god awful at the actual writing part.

>>7031935
Imagine the happiness they feel. That bliss of being completely ignorant to the "reality" of the rest of the world...

>tfw you'll never be this happy

>>7032623
Better hide this before the Quebeckers get in here... talk about getting triggered...