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/lit/, you have been tasked with creating selection committee for a new international literary prize. The appointees will be on the committee for life.
Only nations of literary significance will be represented, so you must select
1 Russian
1 Frenchman
1 Englishman
1 Irishman
1 Italian
1 Spaniard
1 Greek
1 American
1 German
1 Jew

Who do you pick?

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11811647

>”Only nations of literary significance will be represented, so you must select”
>”1 Irishman, 1 Spaniard, 1 Greek, 1 American”

>> No.11811654

>>11811624

>no Chinese
>no Japanese
>no Indian

>> No.11811688

>>11811624
>Jew

>> No.11811716

>>11811624
Russian: Eugene Vodolazkin
Frenchman: Houellebecq
Englishman: Will Self
Irishman: Alan Titley
Italian: Elena Ferrante (whoever that is)
Spaniard: Javier Marais
Greek: Nikos Mandis
American: Cormac McCarthy
German: Peter Wawerzinek
Jew: Harold Bloom

>> No.11811721

>>11811688
>implying they ever assimilate to where they live well enough to consider them as part of any other nation

>> No.11811729

>>11811654
Add l them to your list if you like.

>> No.11811730

w2c reading wheel?

>> No.11811742

>>11811624
I'm a brain let that doesn't know any Irish authors besides joyce. Um not fit for this job.

>> No.11811752

>no latin americans
>No hungarians
>No experts on dead languages such as latin, ancient Chinese and Persian

Toptier shitpost
3/10 made me answer

>> No.11811760

>>11811624
im going to pick the best work from each country instead because i cant follow simple directions

Russia- TBK
France- Andromaque
England- Hamlet
Ireland- who cares
Italy- Divine Comedy
Spain- Don Quixote
Greece: The Odyssey, lmao Greece hasnt been good in 2000 years
America: Moby Dick
Germany: Faust
international frugalists: The Old testament

>> No.11811917

>>11811624
name one good author from greece that didnt live 2000 years ago

>> No.11812013

>Russian: Petersburg
>French: Blood Dark
>English: Coriolanus
>Irish: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
>Italian: Divine Comedy
>Latin American: Hopscotch
>Greek: Sappho
>American: The Bridge
>German: Faust

>> No.11812041

>>11812013
>Coriolanus
Edgelord.

>> No.11812056

>>11811624
This is quite the fantasy you've created where a literary committee has only one jew.

>> No.11812150

>>11812041
I must say this is not a convincing argument as to why Coriolanus is not Shakespeare's greatest work.