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So according to Harold Bloom the greatest contemporary novels are:

American Author n.1 - American Novel n.1
American Author n.2 - American Novel n.2
American Author n.3 - American Novel n.3
American Author n.4 - American Novel n.4
American Author n.5 - American Novel n.5
American Author n.6 - American Novel n.6
American Author n.7 - American Novel n.7
American Author n.8 - American Novel n.8

Fucking great!

>> No.9383478

>>9383471
t. Europoor

All of the greatest writers of the 20th century were American with the single exception of Joyce. And America will be the cultural center of the West when Europe becomes a caliphate.

>> No.9383489

>>9383478
name a decent 20th century american novelist bar faulkner

>> No.9383494

>>9383489
Hemingway

>inb4 he sux
Even Joyce praised Hemingway

>> No.9383518

>>9383489
sinclair lewis

>> No.9383523

>a Jew is shilling for Jewnited Shtates
what a surprise

>> No.9383524

>>9383478
>All of the greatest writers of the 20th century were American
thanks for the laugh

>> No.9383530

>>9383494
>>9383518
haha

>> No.9383535

>>9383494
False.

>> No.9383566

>>9383489

Maya Angelou

Saul Bellow

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>>9383471

>> No.9383581

Oh cool, it's another shit flinging thread with barely the shadow of a coherent argument. Haven't had one of these on the board for a while.

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>>9383566
>american writers
>a nigger and a jew

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9383592

>>9383585
Why is my country like this?

>> No.9383725

>>9383471

OP in the other thread got his quote wrong. Bloom said those are specifically his favourite contemporary American novels.

>> No.9385524

>>9383489
Gass
Gaddis

>> No.9385551

>>9383489
Updike

>> No.9385582

>>9383489
pynchon
mccarthy
gass
gaddis
fitzgerald
morrison
bob dylan :^)

>> No.9385590

>>9383585
Weird how they amounted to something and you won't.

>> No.9385601

>>9385582
Only Gaddis and Fitzgerald are good from them

>> No.9385652

>>9383725
Why no one mentions "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth" ?

>> No.9385749

>>9383478
This.

t. an Australian shitposter

>> No.9385782

You know his longlist for contemporary lit at the end of The Western Canon includes a section for every major country and semiautonomous region in the West—right?

>> No.9385785

>>9383471
america is #1

>> No.9385787

>>9383471
Bloom himself has said in many interviews that the greatest accomplishments pf xx century literature were by the Irish, being Joyce and Yeats examples of this.

>> No.9385788

America became the modern Rome and the most innovative and advanced culture on the planet shortly after WWII. To include other nations alongside the United States would be disingenious and inaccurate. If you haven't picked up on this yet then you must be culturally illiterate