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Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:39:26 2018 No.11833250 [Reply] [Original]

>Great Spanish Novel: a badass wandering knight lunatic
>Great French Novel: a badass struggling ex-convict
>>Great Italian Poem: a badass afterlife adventurer
>Great American Novel: a badass vengeful sea captain
>Great Mexican Novel: a badass cruel macho landowner
>Great Irish Novel: Cuckold Jew advertising salesman

Why did Joyce hate his people so muh?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:40:43 2018 No.11833253 >>11833250 much

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:43:47 2018 No.11833266 >>11833250 >he thinks a great book needs to have a "badass" main character what a fucking pl*b

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:45:01 2018 No.11833272 >>11833266 Nah, it doesn't but it certainly makes it more masculine and thus, better.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:47:17 2018 No.11833284 >>11833250 Dante was a beta cuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:48:22 2018 No.11833289 >>11833272 >having SUCH a fragile masculinity Are you at least taking your hormones?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:49:02 2018 No.11833293 >Great Russian Novel: "Gee, I sure hope Napoleon doesn't invade and rape our wives!" talk about cucks

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:50:44 2018 No.11833298 >>11833250 >Great English Poem: a badass monster slayer Jesus Christ, the Irish couldn't even beat their hated English lol

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:52:02 2018 No.11833304 You should read capeshit OP it seems to cover your vast spectrum of interests

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:53:04 2018 No.11833310 >>11833298 Beowulf is set in Scandinavia. All the great English stories are set elsewhere. Macbeth, Hamlet, LOTR, etc. Really makes you think.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:53:34 2018 No.11833313 Moby Dick is high school lit. Are you fucking serious? Leaves of Grass and The Sound and the Fury are both more quintessential american lit. If you want high school babby shit at least pick Salinger Jesus fuck

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:55:53 2018 No.11833319 >>11833313 Imaging unironucally thinking this. It only goes to show that Moby-Dick is the ultimate pleb filter.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:57:48 2018 No.11833322 >>11833250 Great Romanian novel: a chad marrying an ugly girl for land still fucking a pretty girl on the side

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:58:02 2018 No.11833323 >>11833319 It is, and it filtered you Even Huck Finn is more representative than Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:58:27 2018 No.11833325 >>11833322 Based.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 00:59:09 2018 No.11833327 File: 57 KB, 661x505, 1526474986758.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11833313 >Moby Dick is high school lit. >If you want high school babby shit at least pick Salinger

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:01:22 2018 No.11833335 >>11833323 >he thinks the great American novel should be representative What a colossal pleb you truly are, just off yourself already.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:02:38 2018 No.11833339 >>11833250 >Don Quixote >Dante >badass wew lad

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:03:00 2018 No.11833340 >>11833322 Name of the novel?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:03:14 2018 No.11833341 >>11833335 Yes, it should be representative of essential Americana, or it isn't a great American novel, just a great novel.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:03:40 2018 No.11833342 >>11833340 Ion by Rebreanu

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:04:24 2018 No.11833346 >>11833339 I mean it comparison with Leopold Bloom, they might be seen as such.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:05:48 2018 No.11833351 >>11833341 Why is it thag you don't think Moby-Dick represents the US? A bunch of diverse folks in a boat guided by some lunatic. Literally America now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:07:32 2018 No.11833356 >>11833250 You're onto something... By the time Joyce comes it's not about 'what' but about 'the way in which' It's basically the opposite of Milton's project.

Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:12:47 2018 No.11833376

>>11833351
I didn't say it doesn't. I only said it represents it much, much less than the other works I mentioned.

Sure, it's mostly symbolism, but the symbols themselves and what they symbolize do little to capture anything essentially american to the degree that Faulkner or Clemens do. I'm not saying that Moby Dick is bad, just that its modern reputation as the great american novel is undeserved.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:14:28 2018 No.11833379 >>11833335 lmao what a fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:39:46 2018 No.11833435 >Great Finnish epic: an old man getting cucked repeatedly

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 01:52:15 2018 No.11833477 >>11833289 how tf is that fragile?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 07:31:40 2018 No.11834204 >>11833289 >muh fragililty sour grapes soiboi detected

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 07:39:00 2018 No.11834223 >>11834204 You're a weakling

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 08:57:50 2018 No.11834432 >>11833435 The Kalevala?

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 09:59:38 2018 No.11834622 >>11833310 Lots of great English novels, like any of the Brontë sisters, Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot's novels are all set in England. Even certain Scottish writers, like Walter Scott, set some of their novels in England.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 12:07:19 2018 No.11835012 >>11833250 >ITT: OP has learned a lesson about what not to call the great french novel but still gets roasted about the word badass you'll get there eventually

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