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Anonymous Tue Jun 26 23:30:40 2018 No.11380224 [Reply] [Original]

What, overall, is the greatest work of American literature and why?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 00:03:43 2018 No.11380380 File: 153 KB, 497x528, IMG_1685.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11380224 Harey Bopper and The Chamber of Many Carrots

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 00:15:24 2018 No.11380424 tied between moby dick and hemingway's short stories

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 00:29:32 2018 No.11380466 probably Moby Dick in terms of depth and realization

Anonymous Wed Jun 27 00:36:48 2018 No.11380492
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Uncontested: it's R. W. Emerson's "Essays: First Series."

If you disagree fite me. If you think it's anything by Melville or Whitman you have recognize that they wouldn't have realized their potential without having heard Emerson speak.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 01:05:03 2018 No.11380586 I suggest none of these to be the best, but some personal favorites: >Winesburg, Ohio >Nine Stories (Salinger) >Billy Budd and the Piazza Tales >Prufrock

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 01:07:27 2018 No.11380595 >>11380424 hemingway wrote 3 or 4 good short stories the rest were boring shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 01:36:59 2018 No.11380693 File: 1.35 MB, 3463x1999, 1526702008835.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OP's pic related is up there for sure. My top three are On the Road, Moby Dick, Lolita.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 01:48:11 2018 No.11380714 In the Realms of the Unreal

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 01:48:23 2018 No.11380717 The Tale of Genji

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 01:53:09 2018 No.11380729 File: 300 KB, 1500x2384, 81xVT0GdNVL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11380224 Mark Twain is debatable, but for my money it's Saul Bellow.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 02:18:52 2018 No.11380803 File: 8 KB, 173x254, 888888.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] check em

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 02:29:16 2018 No.11380838 >>11380729 >greatest American writer wasn't even American I'll allow it

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 04:49:03 2018 No.11381162 >>11380492 This guy gets it. Best English prose writer and a very good poet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 05:01:08 2018 No.11381180 >>11380224 >pic entirely unrelated

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 05:08:55 2018 No.11381199 >>11381180 that's one less word than "I have bad taste", I'll give you that

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 05:12:37 2018 No.11381206 File: 119 KB, 1200x1200, henry-james-9352584-1-402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One of The Ambassadors, The Wings of The Dove, or The Golden Bowl

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 06:23:40 2018 No.11381359 >>11380595 Which three or four do you like? Brother got me his collected short stories and I'd like to know which ones are good. I am a pretty big Hemingway though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 06:26:01 2018 No.11381366 >>11380224 define definenakwknknpknp knpg bkndeas knznk.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 10:07:45 2018 No.11381933 >>11380838 I guess because he became a naturalized US citizen people call him an American even tho he's Canadian. Some of his writings are very American tho.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 10:29:41 2018 No.11382023 >>11381359 Read all of them retard

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 14:33:34 2018 No.11382919 >>11381206 In Europe, nobody cares for Pynchon, Gaddis and USA po-mo in general but on Uni, holy shit, they shill for Henry James like mad.

Anonymous Wed Jun 27 14:42:49 2018 No.11382956

>>11381359
Not the previous anon.

Most of them are very good, some are astounding, I think. Off the top of my head, my favourites include the standard ones... Hills like White Elephants and A Clean Well-Lighted Place. But there’s also A Sea Change and Light of the World, which are amazing. The Capital of the World. The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Che Ti Dice La Patria? Indian Camp. Big Two-Hearted River.

But really, just read through the book. There’s so much richness in the stories that he rarely attained in his novels.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 14:50:54 2018 No.11382999 >>11380224 - The Tunnel - Darconville’s Cat - Women and Men - Gravity’s Rainbow - Mason & Dixon - The Sound and the Fury - Blood Meridian - The Recognitions - The Lime Twig

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 14:54:13 2018 No.11383019 bigger question: who cares its like asking whats the greatest work of australian literature, both countries have a pretty worthless literary tradition

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 15:12:58 2018 No.11383114 >>11383019 epic

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 16:08:30 2018 No.11383371 >>11382919 Second Euro-Uni student here, can confirm.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 17:05:50 2018 No.11383561 >>11382999 >- The Tunnel >- Darconville’s Cat >- Women and Men >- Gravity’s Rainbow >- Mason & Dixon >- Blood Meridian >- The Recognitions >- The Lime Twig snap

Anonymous Wed Jun 27 17:11:18 2018 No.11383571
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>>11380424
The best American literature has to offer: a dumb tale about a whale written in horrendous purple prose, and the boring, animalistic macho fantasies of a repressed fag.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 17:12:32 2018 No.11383575 File: 375 KB, 600x800, 1460622699048.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11383571 Get the fuck out of my thread gayboi

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 17:33:55 2018 No.11383642 >>11380586 >Prufrock >American Nice try, burger.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 17:35:56 2018 No.11383650 >>11383019 Based and truthful.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 20:55:07 2018 No.11384379 >>11383571 >purple prose Thank God we have summerfags around to bring back stale memes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 21:16:15 2018 No.11384445 File: 290 KB, 1000x756, henry-darger-2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11380714 interesting take

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 22:31:12 2018 No.11384687 >>11383571 almost feel for this bait

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 22:38:21 2018 No.11384712 >>11383019 le ebin bait xD

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 27 22:41:21 2018 No.11384724 >>11384712 who is the greatest american writer? pynchon? melville? both at the top end of mid tier / bottom of high tier not really of the same quality as other authors who are best in a whole tradition

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 12:24:31 2018 No.11386461 >>11380729 fucking BASED

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 13:48:48 2018 No.11386716 >>11382999 nice list

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 16:15:50 2018 No.11387275 >>11383642 The faces of modernist poetry are a couple of good 'ol boys from the US of A. Deal with it, chump.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 16:18:50 2018 No.11387292 >>11382919 Well he did clear the path for modernism in English literature.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 16:27:17 2018 No.11387341 >>11381359 How big Hemingway are you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 16:30:00 2018 No.11387363 >>11380224 You already posted it

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 18:10:09 2018 No.11387782 (Unironically) On the Road, because it's the most authentic

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 18:18:01 2018 No.11387813 >>11382999 >- Darconville’s Cat Damn, i forgot about this one. This used to get memed pretty regularly 3 or 4 years ago. What changed?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 18:35:25 2018 No.11387897 >>11380224 Moby-Dick is the only acceptable answer. Everything else is secondary.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 18:45:32 2018 No.11387942 >>11380224 Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, The Golden Bowl, or The Ambassadors.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 28 18:53:53 2018 No.11388001 >>11387782 >because it's the most authentic t. retard

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