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Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:03:54 2018 No.12171163 [Reply] [Original]

>Melville
>Dylan
>Gaddis
>Gass
>Pynchon.
>DeLillo
>Salinger
>Whitman
>Dickinson
>Poe
>Faulkner
>Fitzgerald
>Nabokov
>Updike
>Steinbeck
>O'Connor
>Emerson
>Thoreau
>Hawthorne
>Bellow
>Lewis
>O'Neill
>Buck
>Brodsky
>Morrison
>Eliot
>Hemingway
>Anderson
>Twain
>Frost
>Salinger
>James
>Miller
>Wiliiams
>Crane
>Stevens
>Burroughs
>Keroauc
>Plath
>Roth
>Salinger
literally no country can compete it is obvious from this list America has the best literature

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:06:29 2018 No.12171180 >>12171163 >Dylan >Salinger thrice >Nabokov is a American nice b8 m8

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:07:06 2018 No.12171183 you put salinger 3 times you shit

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:07:40 2018 No.12171186 You really seem to like Salinger. Here I took a liberty to clean up your list from all the second-rate garbage: >Melville >Whitman >Poe >Faulkner >Nabokov >Steinbeck >O'Connor >Bellow >Brodsky

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:08:40 2018 No.12171191 >>12171163 >Brodsky >Nabokov Pyки нaхyй yбpaл, зaнимaйcя cвoим гoвнoм вpoдe Пyнь Чoнa.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:09:50 2018 No.12171200 >>12171180 nabokov is an american writer and definitely considered himself so

>>	Atreyu !KNs1o0VDv6 Sun Dec 2 18:10:07 2018 No.12171202 >>12171186 >No Gass >Keeps Bellow

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:10:08 2018 No.12171203 Why can my big bitch Willa Cather not even make it on to a barrel-scraping list like this?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:11:34 2018 No.12171213 >>12171200 You can choose your nationality now just because you wrote books on that country?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 18:21:36 2018 No.12171259 >>12171213 You can choose your nationality when you explicitly become a citizen of another country. Why are you SEETHING so much, Ivan?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 19:19:36 2018 No.12171533 >>12171163 >The Donald

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 19:39:04 2018 No.12171604 >>12171186 you forgot to get rid of oconnor and poe and whitman

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:13:26 2018 No.12171998 >>12171259 well then take TS Eliot off the list you fucking retard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:17:34 2018 No.12172017 >>12171186 >O'Connor, Steinbeck, Brodsky, Bellow are included >James, Hawthorne, Fitzgerald, Twain, Emerson are excluded I hate this board tbqh

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:19:02 2018 No.12172022 >>12171998 >fucking retard. Pls refrain from such language on this board. Ty:)

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:20:36 2018 No.12172026 >Chaucer >Spenser >Shakespeare >Milton >Donne >Blake >Keats >Coleridge >Wordsworth >Dickens >Carroll >Bronte >Austen >Forster >Lewis >Tolkien >Woolf >Waugh >Orwell >Eliot >James Its been a bad several decades for them, but this is a fucking list

Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:22:58 2018 No.12172033

>>12172026
>>Eliot
>>James
lolno
>Coleridge
wrote very little poetry worth preserving, was a poor caretaker of his talent
>Forster
>Waugh
>Tolkien
>Lewis
>Orwell
C;mon. You could list Newman, Butler, Brown, Donne, Addiosn...anything but this recent trash into which British literature has petered out.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:26:21 2018 No.12172048 >>12172022 suck my dick you fucking retard

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:27:01 2018 No.12172052 >>12171163 No bandana man?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:28:07 2018 No.12172060 >>12172052 SING US A SONG YOURE THE BANDANA MAN

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:38:47 2018 No.12172131 >>12172048 I will suffocate you, teabagging you with my hairy-ass nuts. Eliot stays.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:41:12 2018 No.12172139 Cleaned up the list a bit: >Melville

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:42:53 2018 No.12172145 >>12172131 you'll do as youre told or you'll do nothing at all you fat bitch

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 21:44:00 2018 No.12172151 >>12171186 You and op both forgot about McCarthy

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:03:32 2018 No.12172252 >>12172151 no I think they were trying to make a list of good authors.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:05:03 2018 No.12172257 >>12171186 your a retarded

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:05:30 2018 No.12172261 >>12172252 kek even though I like Cormac

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:06:46 2018 No.12172269 >>12172252 >what is Suttree Yeah even I will admit Blood Meridian is mid-wit tier but Suttree is incredible. His masterpiece. Every single line in that book is poetry.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:14:37 2018 No.12172308 >>12172269 it was a corncobby shitshow. It reeked of pseudo-intellectual vagrancy and a half baked love of violence and alcohol. I thought it was utter trash.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:16:29 2018 No.12172318 >>12172308 Stop it I’m going to cry

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:19:50 2018 No.12172339 >>12171200 Someone hasnt read Nabokov's Mary. To learn which nationality his considered his own.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:25:19 2018 No.12172360 >>12172308 Every book is pseudo intellectual.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:26:42 2018 No.12172366 File: 40 KB, 634x650, 756432.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12171163 >Bob Dylan

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:29:18 2018 No.12172374 >>12171200 He could barely speak English. He wrote it like a god, though. If you people don't recognize and mock legal spics for not speaking good English and for not being born in America, then you could apply the same to Nabby. Double standards.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:29:39 2018 No.12172375 >>12172360 this. Literature is a pseud hobby. Real intellectuals prefer live interactive pornographic theater.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:38:41 2018 No.12172422 File: 12 KB, 403x450, 1531899786286.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12172374

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:40:35 2018 No.12172429 >>12172422 Nice argument, burgerboy.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:40:44 2018 No.12172431 >>12172375 Live interactive pornographic theater is for the unkempt, real intellectuals prefer written tableaus of pornographic theater.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:44:46 2018 No.12172457 >>12171998 >citizen of country >wrote and published in primary written and spoken language of country >part of country's modernist canon Wtf are you even talking about?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 22:48:42 2018 No.12172472 File: 9 KB, 213x237, 852.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12172457 are you actually a fucking drooling brainlet or is this b8?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 23:32:23 2018 No.12172668 >>12171163 >No Borges What a peasant

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 23:34:53 2018 No.12172679 File: 1 KB, 1200x800, 1200px-Flag_of_Russia.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12171163 Ahem...

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 23:34:55 2018 No.12172681 >>12172668 he's Argentine, m8, not from USA

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 23:36:23 2018 No.12172685 >>12172681 amerishit is the second worst lit country after russia. i only read things that come from germans or italians.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 23:37:27 2018 No.12172687 >>12172685 thanks for your input, champ.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 23:38:47 2018 No.12172695 >>12172681 i think that was the point, anon

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 23:40:58 2018 No.12172704 >>12172026 Ah, so the anglos are the best at genre fiction. Good to know.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 2 23:49:53 2018 No.12172749 >>12171186 based

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 00:12:43 2018 No.12172858 >>12172060 Underrated

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 00:14:15 2018 No.12172870 >>12172704 based

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 00:39:33 2018 No.12173000 >>12172145 Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 00:46:47 2018 No.12173025 >>12171998 Eliot belongs to us. Get your own Eliot, fag.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 00:49:13 2018 No.12173035 >>12171203 Cather is tripe.

Anonymous Mon Dec 3 02:42:27 2018 No.12173424

>>12171163
>Kochanowski
>Rej
>Pasek
>Potocki
>Krasicki
>Mickiewicz
>Słowacki
>Krasiński
>Norwid
>Kraszewski
>Fredro
>Prus
>Orzeszkowa
>Konopnicka
>Sienkiewicz
>Wyspiański
>Reymont
>Żeromski
>Witkiewicz
>Przybyszewski
>Wierzyński
>Leśmian
>Tuwim
>Boy-Żeleński
>Tetmajer
>Gombrowicz
>Schulz
>Nałkowska
>Białoszewski
>Baczyński
>Miłosz
>Herling-Grudziński
>Herbert
>Różewicz
>Szymborska
>Andrzejewski
>Hłasko
>Konwicki
>Tyrmand
>Myśliwski
>Tokarczuk
>Masłowska

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 02:44:55 2018 No.12173432 >>12172308 I see you're emulating the writing style of esteemed American author, Nabokov (he was a citizen, after all!)

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 02:47:15 2018 No.12173438 File: 7 KB, 139x186, 1539833112160.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12171163 U wot m8 you went and forgot top lass

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 02:48:57 2018 No.12173443 >>12171163 Agree OP. Literature is one of the few things america has done right. Probably because it's such a massive clusterfuck of cultures and conflicts.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 3 02:49:08 2018 No.12173444 >female authors

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