How can America produce the greatest writer of the 20th century, and then literally NOBODY worth mentioning thereafter? What happened? (Pic very related)

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Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:04:21 2018 No.10867225 [Reply] [Original]

How can America produce the greatest writer of the 20th century, and then literally NOBODY worth mentioning thereafter? What happened?

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>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:09:36 2018 No.10867240 >>10867225 Are you referring to Faulkner and Salinger being emblematic of shit? 1. No American was the greatest 20th century writer 2. Salinger isn't bad

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:12:15 2018 No.10867246 >>10867240 Faulkner or Frost would like to have a word with you. Fiction and Poetry changed with them.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:12:18 2018 No.10867247 >>10867240 Yes. Salinger was the end of American “literature.” Postmodernism doesn’t count, for reasons obvious to anyone who cares about actual literature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:16:10 2018 No.10867264 >>10867225 Salinger is a horrible writer. Angry 14 year old kid fiction =/= literature.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:17:03 2018 No.10867271 >>10867264 women BTFO

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:17:16 2018 No.10867273 >>10867264 Kek, imagine being this poorly read

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:18:46 2018 No.10867281 >>10867273 Imagine for falling for bait this easy

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:22:27 2018 No.10867304 File: 28 KB, 588x419, chart.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Apply this chart to CITR and then genocide those in the nadir

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:24:28 2018 No.10867316 >>10867304 Wonderful

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:25:30 2018 No.10867321 >>10867225 You’ve obviously never heard of Evan Dara. I’d recommend starting with The Lost Scrapbook.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:27:01 2018 No.10867327 File: 18 KB, 220x295, 50F994E2-9F35-49E8-9634-25736370D8B1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >greatest writer of the 20th century blocks your path

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:27:47 2018 No.10867333 >>10867327 Please. Joyce couldn’t write Bananfish if he tried.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:30:51 2018 No.10867352 File: 205 KB, 1280x1183, nogirls.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867225 He's great but let's be real he's not the greatest.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:31:23 2018 No.10867357 >>10867225 Borges is the best writer of the 20th century. Or maybe Kafka. Salinger is leagues behind those two.

Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:32:18 2018 No.10867368 [DELETED]

>>10867304
CITR is a jewish meme. Jews promoted this mediocre jewish writer because he glorified degeneracy and selfishness to the young goyim. Easily manipulated kids like yourself are forced to read it when you're 14, and since it's one of the few books you've ever finished and because you were never very smart to begin with, you still go to bat for it years later, because you're a mental pussy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:33:06 2018 No.10867371 File: 3.06 MB, 500x207, bait.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867368

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:33:29 2018 No.10867375 >>10867273 >>10867281 imagine all the people and someone literally shoots you because of Salinger

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:34:17 2018 No.10867378 >>10867327 this is pretty much inarguable, even if you are the sort to think that his later work is nonsense, single stories in Dubliners rise above his contemporaries

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:34:45 2018 No.10867382 File: 14 KB, 288x475, frannyzooey.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Pic related is near the zenith of American literature. But internationals are way ahead. Pretty sure this is bait but Salinger is actually underrated.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:37:22 2018 No.10867400 >>10867382 Salinger is like Fitzgerald in that /lit/ doesn't like him due to either a) they had to read his most famous novel in high school when they were retards or b) the rampant autism about american authors on this board

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:38:10 2018 No.10867405 >>10867240 >1. No American was the greatest 20th century writer Joyce was Irish, which makes him American in spirit

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:40:09 2018 No.10867415 i met salinger's son the other day, major chad

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:41:26 2018 No.10867420 >>10867405 >Joyce was Irish, which makes him American in spirit. tf does that even mean

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:41:56 2018 No.10867423 >>10867415 What? Elaborate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:42:16 2018 No.10867426 File: 197 KB, 2500x1645, bait.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867405

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:45:53 2018 No.10867445 >>10867420 irish invented american culture irish invented cowboys la and blue jeans and the great american novel all in dublin aye la

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:47:35 2018 No.10867453 >>10867400 Fitzgerald was 10x the writer Salinger was, and while you may be right, there are a lot of Salinger fan boys on here because of jews and because Catcher connects with a lot of fucked up kids, as it was intended.

Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:48:51 2018 No.10867460

>>10867225
The U.S. didn't produce the century's greatest writer; France probably did with Proust, or Russia with Bely or what's now the Czech Republic with Kafka, and Salinger doesn't hold a candle to Faulkner (the best), Henry Roth, Cather, Nabokov, Ellison or Bellow.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:49:19 2018 No.10867463 >>10867420 >>10867426 Irish Anon here. Its true, Irish and Americans are brothers in spirit unlike English cretins. Both nations love freedom and individualism

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:56:24 2018 No.10867493 >>10867460 Why are trying to pretend all those mediocre jewish writers are good or even near the best? Are you jewish or just an idiot? >"country x PRODUCES the best... sniff sniff We smell you in here, schlomo. Scram.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 17:57:33 2018 No.10867504 >>10867493 why do you always post in such an autistic manner

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:00:13 2018 No.10867517 >>10867423 i met his son, hes a middle aged guy. he was an actor for a bit and was the jock in revenge of the nerds. he's a nice guy—don't think he's got the noggin of his dad

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:02:22 2018 No.10867526 >>10867517 >don't think he's got the noggin of his dad His dad had an IQ of 106 according to his Time magazine profile.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:02:34 2018 No.10867528 >>10867460 Your opinion is like an arse full of farts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:02:49 2018 No.10867529 >>10867453 Salinger was 10x better than Fitzgerald.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:03:25 2018 No.10867533 >>10867504 So he was right? You're promoting jewish writers as "the best" because you're also jewish?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:06:49 2018 No.10867551 >>10867533 No. But if you want to make a case against Proust, Kafka and the others because you don't like Jews, be my guest.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:09:16 2018 No.10867561 File: 32 KB, 208x243, 5229126b26228f17eabb6709fc9e8389d959c182a227f6dedc07c4d22f243e8d.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867551 >No

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:11:15 2018 No.10867571 >>10867225 Kafka wasn't American, anon.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:11:19 2018 No.10867572 >>10867561 i wish i was a jew you fucking faggot qts for days

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:12:15 2018 No.10867580 >>10867571 He was Jewish, which makes him American in spirit

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:18:20 2018 No.10867619 File: 122 KB, 1024x680, 1509099688195m.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867572 You dumb, pathetic slave.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:21:16 2018 No.10867630 >>10867619 your masters are mostly white billionaires you dumb cattle man

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:24:10 2018 No.10867646 >>10867619 Is the high-IQ worth being that ugly?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:25:06 2018 No.10867653 >>10867561 >literally zero argument

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:25:45 2018 No.10867656 File: 1.49 MB, 300x300, 1511785817192.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867246 >Faulkner or Frost is the greatest 20th century writer Serious question, have ever read Faulkner or Frost? Shitty chevy commercials don't count.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:26:08 2018 No.10867660 >>10867619 Rollin for 9. Come on baby.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:26:17 2018 No.10867661 >>10867580 lel not even wrong

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:27:20 2018 No.10867666 >>10867646 They wouldn't be trying to destroy the world if it was

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:28:19 2018 No.10867673 >>10867225 is that the picture of the guy who wrote for Esme, my favorite short story of his?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:34:13 2018 No.10867702 Franny and Zooey is a great intro to writing dialogue. The first half of Zooey's chapter, when he's smoking in the bathtub reading a manuscript, is great writing. I think Salinger's peak is Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters. Great writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:35:50 2018 No.10867711 >>10867660 Dang

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:38:56 2018 No.10867727 File: 264 KB, 576x324, galnews.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867619 >cherry-picking a bunch of middle-aged women sad also 7 get

Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:39:31 2018 No.10867733 [DELETED]

>>10867630
>your masters are mostly white billionaires
The elite in America is jewish now. That's why whites are under attack by media, getting pushed out of our institutions by diversity policies, and being replaced by third worlders -- we're being ruled by a foreign tribe that hates us. If you're white it's time to wake the fuck up and stop being a passive retard.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:42:55 2018 No.10867755 >>10867727 Lol that bitch is probably genetically 75% Italian (jews have a lot of Italian DNA going back to Roman times). Jews and semites generally are the ugliest people on the planet, largely due to inbreeding.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:44:50 2018 No.10867766 >>10867755 post a pic of your face my übermensch friend

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 18:50:57 2018 No.10867792 >>10867766 Wish I could but you know I can't.

Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:01:55 2018 No.10867850

>>10867415
My dad claims he actually met Salinger. Dad grew up in Windsor, Vermont and worked at a gas station for some time in the late 50s and early 60s. Salinger lived in Cornish, New Hampshire and apparently would travel to Windsor. Dad said he had filled up his car a few times at the gas station. He was very quiet and reserved, saying nothing but a customary greeting or whatever. Also said he remembered him having two dogs in the car a few times.
I read that Salinger went full recluse after a student from Windsor High School published an interview with him in the local newspaper. So I guess it is possible he would be there in Windsor. My dad isn't a reader either (I don't even think he has read CitR) so I don't see why he would lie about this. Pretty neat I suppose.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:15:04 2018 No.10867922 File: 993 KB, 800x842, 1510695316812.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867727 >>10867755 >>10867766 What did her skull mean by this

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:16:57 2018 No.10867930 >>10867922 lol virgin

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:18:22 2018 No.10867939 File: 47 KB, 800x528, do.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867930 Rodentization of the skull is an inevitable result of inbreeding, this is just facts Anon

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:19:53 2018 No.10867944 File: 1.43 MB, 1920x1080, 40c772f942605b6e19fe7fa35e181bf6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867939 >>10867922

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:20:52 2018 No.10867952 >open thread knowing there's gonna be some /pol/tard bitching about da joos >I was right Every fucking time, you guys are worse than cockroaches.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:22:36 2018 No.10867965 >>10867939 why do you /pol/edditors push the inbreeding meme so hard when we all know you are the inbred one?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:23:08 2018 No.10867967 >>10867952 Found the Jew

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:24:11 2018 No.10867974 File: 462 KB, 1200x600, 1510759849692.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867944 >>10867965 Please Chaim, you're fooling no one

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:24:56 2018 No.10867979 >>10867225 who is that

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:25:39 2018 No.10867983 >>10867974 I'd marry her, get her pregnant and then marry our daughter desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:27:06 2018 No.10867988 File: 44 KB, 696x384, microcephaly.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10867983 Just as G-d intended, keep the chosen people pure

Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:27:34 2018 No.10867991 [DELETED]

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>>10867922
>>10867939
I know there is data that suggest otherwise, but I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out jews were the remnant of some different species. Like Europeans have 2-5% Neanderthal DNA, I suspect jews might have an increased amount of DNA from some divergent Neanderthalesque group. They certainly look like they do.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:28:23 2018 No.10867994 >>10867445 >>10867463 Heck, it's even theorized that AAVE (ebonics) came out of Irish English.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:29:43 2018 No.10867999 >>10867463 another Irish anon here. You're retarded. Are you from Cork or something?

Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:30:24 2018 No.10868003 [DELETED]

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>>10867991
Its because their DNA has literally recessed due to in-breeding. The more you inbreed within a group the more primordial-DNA starts to re-assert itself
Hence why Jews are both physically and neurologically returning to our rat-like forebear

Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:34:10 2018 No.10868018 [DELETED]

>>10867952
This is only going to increase and spill into other realms of life until jews get expelled. They are the architects of the current existential crisis across the west and are attacking whites. Whites being the problem solvers we are will thus strategise, push the message about the jewish problem, and attack whites who are still ignorant about it whenever jews come up. It's only natural.

Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:44:44 2018 No.10868060

>>10867225
Even looking at the sperglist that is the Nobel prize, you can pick up much better writers in the 20th century:

>Kipling
>Yeats
>Shaw
>Mann
>Hesse
>Gide
>Eliot
>Churchill
>Camus
>Neruda
>Marquez
>Morrison
>Coetzee

Hell, Canada produces better writers than Salinger, and Canada is cesspool of a lot of talentless writers (and I say that as a proud Canadian).

>>10867426
Aye, gr8 b8

>>10868003
>>10867493
Every time I come back to this board, it gets a little worse and a little more vitriolic. Like, read a book, talk about it, say something nice to some other poster. Also >>10867965

>>10867619
Also, rollin' (Looking for 7 or 9)

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:50:26 2018 No.10868084 >>10868060 >Every time I come back to this board, it gets a little worse and a little more vitriolic Thats called people waking up and not taking shit anymore

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:58:10 2018 No.10868104 >>10867999 No, I'm from Boston

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 19:59:10 2018 No.10868107 >>10867225 he looks like that ape that wants the fire in junglebook

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 20:04:52 2018 No.10868121 >>10867225 anybody thinks the letter from buddy to zooey is one of literature bests?.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 20:09:31 2018 No.10868132 >>10868121 I do. Also when Zooey enters Seymours old room for the first time.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 20:14:21 2018 No.10868148 File: 1.06 MB, 480x351, 75D84ED9-7542-4883-B549-D332A59399E0.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw they have yet to posthumously release his remaining works

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 20:19:48 2018 No.10868161 >>10868132 stupidly proud of somebody having the exact same taste.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 20:32:48 2018 No.10868199 >>10868060 Literally ONE of those is American. And as a Canadian, I will submit Alice Munro as our greatest fiction writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 20:44:20 2018 No.10868253 >>10867264 Read Nine Stories you fucking pleb

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 20:52:46 2018 No.10868283 >>10867453 Imagine being this deluded.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 20:54:53 2018 No.10868288 >>10867453 >Nabokov and Beckett were fucked up kids

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 21:15:13 2018 No.10868362 >>10867702 raise high the roofbeam is the patrician's choice franny and zooey though very good is pleb in comparison

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 21:22:32 2018 No.10868381 >>10868362 >not Seymour: An Introduction. Enjoy the bread and circuses.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 21:23:05 2018 No.10868383 >>10868199 I'd read another Hugh MacLennan novel or something by Mordecai Eichler before touching Munro.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 19 21:26:08 2018 No.10868389 I've heard it claimed that good books are only recognized in retrospect, but I've never seen anyone back this claim up with a study or data. Is there a chart somewhere that compares when a work was published to when it achieved "success"?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 20 03:20:35 2018 No.10869664 >>10868104 Oh then kill yourself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 20 03:54:15 2018 No.10869731 >>10867357 >Borges >the Dan Harmon of literature is the best writer of the 20th century

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 20 03:59:58 2018 No.10869753 >>10867453 I like Fitzgerald and Tender is the Night is a damn great novel but Salinger later stuff is on another level. Seymour an Introduction in particular is up there with the very few best works of literature of the 20th century.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 20 04:02:24 2018 No.10869759 >>10869731 >>the Dan Harmon of literature is the best writer of the 20th century Unironically kill yourself, anon. Please.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 20 04:41:52 2018 No.10869834 >>10869731 Dan Harmon is good

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 20 10:15:11 2018 No.10870735 >>10869731 Fuck off. What do they even have in common? Harmon is a try hard hack and Borges is one of the most clever people who have ever lived.

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