Have they written anything worth reading?

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Anonymous Tue Jun 11 12:53:37 2019 No.13278690 [Reply] [Original]

Have they written anything worth reading?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 12:58:54 2019 No.13278723 >>13278690 Saul bellow is (technically) canadian

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:06:06 2019 No.13278750 >>13278690 Degrassi

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:13:06 2019 No.13278783 >>13278690 norm macdonald? lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 13:59:29 2019 No.13278973 oryx and crake anything by my girl Margaret Atwood

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 14:01:01 2019 No.13278979 >>13278783 is norm a leaf? maybe that’s why i hate him so much

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 14:06:58 2019 No.13278998 >>13278690 Only Munro.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 14:40:33 2019 No.13279163 Sasha Sokolov - school for fools Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 14:42:11 2019 No.13279170 >>13278690 Canada is not even a real country, it should be annexed by China.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 18:44:11 2019 No.13280480 >>13278690 Alice Munro is the only Canadian author worth reading

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 18:45:30 2019 No.13280489 >>13278690 Jeff Lemire but that's not /lit/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:25:10 2019 No.13280665 Stephen Leacock was born in England but he is considered a Canadian author. Probably one of our best in my estimation.

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:27:59 2019 No.13280678

Robertson Davis is also pretty good and is famous for his incel-tier interpretation of lolita

>In 1959, novelist Robertson Davies excused the narrator entirely, writing that the theme of Lolita is "not the corruption of an innocent child by a cunning adult, but the exploitation of a weak adult by a corrupt child. This is no pretty theme, but it is one with which social workers, magistrates and psychiatrists are familiar."

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:29:44 2019 No.13280688 >>13278973 The more I read of Atwood, the more I dislike her. Edible Woman is the best by her imo. Doesn't change the fact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' is probably CanLit canon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:30:45 2019 No.13280692 >>13279163 How does English Patient stack up against Skin of a Lion?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:31:32 2019 No.13280696 >>13278973 >>13280688 I've never read Atwood and never intend to because it seems like the people that love her are middle aged stay-at-home mothers with messy kitchens.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:31:59 2019 No.13280701 File: 127 KB, 800x1122, 800px-Jordan_Peterson_June_2018.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] AHEM

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:32:19 2019 No.13280705 >>13280692 I haven't read skin of a lion, the English Patient is good though. Worth a read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:39:09 2019 No.13280740 Mcluhan Frye Leacock

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:49:11 2019 No.13280799

>>13280665
>>13280740
Leacock is really enjoyable. Sunshine Sketches had me in stitches, while Idle Adventures was quite humourous as well. I always send people 'Financial Career' as an intro to him: https://www.bartleby.com/380/prose/273.html

I haven't done enough Frye or McLuhan, but what I have read, I have enjoyed.

>>13280678
Davies is quite good. On his last two novels; I've read all the others.

Also, I felt similarly about Lolita...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:52:48 2019 No.13280819 >>13278690 French fetish fuel children's cartoons and that's aboot it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:54:04 2019 No.13280830 >>13278690 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival:_A_Thematic_Guide_to_Canadian_Literature

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:55:33 2019 No.13280835 >>13278998 >Munro Legitimately one of the greatest short story writers of all time. I haven't encountered another Canadian near that level.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:58:51 2019 No.13280866 >>13278690 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Canadian_writers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_writers

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 19:59:05 2019 No.13280869 >>13280740 We should also include George Grant >>13280835 Whole Munro is good I have the sneaking suspicion it's the only leaf most of you have read

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:00:35 2019 No.13280875 >>13280869 You're right. Lament for a Nation is essential.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:03:34 2019 No.13280885 >>13278998 >>13280835 >>13280869 Where to start with Munro?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 20:07:21 2019 No.13280902 >>13280835 Yikes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:01:24 2019 No.13281185 >>13280688 Is it better than the amazon show?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:23:05 2019 No.13281284 >>13278723 Come on now

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 21:42:25 2019 No.13281399

>>13281185
I haven't watched the show at all.

The book is second/post-second wave feminism, with a simple and vitriolic bent against religion. The narrative is cut with flashbacks. There is 'mystery' in the work, which can pull you along, but the prose itself is YA-tier.

It was a tolerable read. My girlfriend, on the other hand, actually put the book down, because she thought it was so bad.

The death-knell of it being anything better than 'okay' was the epilogue Atwood wrote as a small satire against academia, which gutted the general 'moral' of the story. Completely undermined the whole work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:24:25 2019 No.13281569 >>13278690 I work up in Canada all the time and their food/culture is literally shit, an aesthetic wasteland. I can't imagine they have much to offer in literature. McLuhan is based though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:41:05 2019 No.13281641 >>13281569 Ontario isn't Canada, Yank.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:46:39 2019 No.13281666 File: 100 KB, 785x757, 1503018602537.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13281569 Fuck off from my country, amerishart

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:50:04 2019 No.13281680 >>13281569 Stay out, spic.

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 22:56:08 2019 No.13281707

>>13281569
When it comes to food I agree, but as far as culture goes it's not bad if you don't fall for memes. Urban culture in downtown Toronto is pretty cool and unironically very white (if that matters to you). And for rural stuff we have some amazing landscape for camping, hiking, portaging, etc. We're no Europe, though Quebec and Acadia have the whole linguistic aspect boosting their cultural profile, but as far as the new world is concerned I don't think we do so bad.

I love American food though. As far as I'm concerned the pinnacle of food is texas bbq

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:00:01 2019 No.13281723 >>13281569 >he hasnt been to Quebec

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:01:00 2019 No.13281728 >>13281723 Isn't that where all those people who dodged the draft in WW1 and WW2 live?

Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:06:52 2019 No.13281752

>>13281569
Quebec City is the only culturally interesting part of Canada. Go to QC for man-made beauty and BC for natural beauty.

Our writers seem to be nonevent, but there may be some great ones somewhere buried by our shitty Progressive soccer mom publishers/agents. Maybe.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:13:14 2019 No.13281778 >>13281641 But Ontario is Canada. >>13281707 >>13281723 >>13281752 I'll have to check out Quebec.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:21:08 2019 No.13281822 >>13281778 quebec city is nice but the people are shit

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:27:53 2019 No.13281852 File: 84 KB, 657x600, 1560210638269.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13281822 I'm going to Quebec city this summer. I hope you're wrong about frogs being shit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:30:00 2019 No.13281862 File: 186 KB, 482x450, 08d.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Ctrl+f Bear >0 Results Seriously?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:43:01 2019 No.13281923 >>13281569 Canada is your 52nd state atm. No shit their culture replicate yours

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 11 23:59:14 2019 No.13282009 >>13281752 >Quebec City is the only culturally interesting part of Canada Keep believing this. We don't want Amerikikes here anyways, they're worse than migrants.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:03:04 2019 No.13282035 >>13280696 Atwood is pretty good, just go ahead and say you hate women instead they of trying to justify skipping a perfectly good author

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:10:44 2019 No.13282071 File: 239 KB, 1024x1024, bear.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Marian Engel

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:11:29 2019 No.13282077 LM Montgomery is the ultimate INFP bait. Want to go back in time and marry that woman before she killed herself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:12:26 2019 No.13282084 >>13281569 Please don’t come back goblino

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:14:38 2019 No.13282093 Mordecai Richler

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:23:59 2019 No.13282139

>>13281569
The worst parts of Canada are the super commercial cities, like Vancouver or Toronto. Quebec is really beautiful, and the maritime provinces are incredibly friendly and serene. Alberta is gorgeous, and generally pleasant as long as you avoid talking to the brain-dead populace. The northern territories are also great, especially for the outdoor types.
Basically, stay out of the major shithole cities, and enjoy the small towns and provincial parks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:24:58 2019 No.13282144 >>13280885 Anywhere my guy, she writes short stories. No need to ask where to start because it's not like there's a huge time investment involved. I'd recommend "Runaway"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:26:01 2019 No.13282150 >>13282139 Canadian small towns are fucking hideous and run down. The whole country is shit outside of nature and Quebec

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:28:15 2019 No.13282159 >>13282009 >... they're worse than migrants. Not quite.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:30:20 2019 No.13282169 File: 95 KB, 650x848, 1560313820842.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >No one ITT has read Anne Carson >No one ITT has read Alden Nowlan >No one ITT has read George Elliot Clarke

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:31:08 2019 No.13282173 File: 497 KB, 934x1130, implying_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13282150 >Niagara-on-the-lake, Rouyn-Noranda, Dorset, Sault Ste. Marie, Banff, Kelowna, Yellowknife, Halifax >hideous I have to disagree, m8

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:33:37 2019 No.13282181 Thank you for include one spot in the Maritimes, but you've chosen rather poorly Not that Halifax isn't pretty, but even so...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:39:22 2019 No.13282205 File: 423 KB, 1500x1000, u wot m8 -- Tremblant.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13282150 >>13282181

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:40:04 2019 No.13282208 >>13280665 His stories were based as closely on real people as you can get without being sued. I have family who grew up in the same town he wrote about.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:43:52 2019 No.13282217

>>13282205
maybe you're confused, my post about the Maritimes was meant to be a reply to the post directly above it

I'm certainly confused, at least. Are you saying that because Quebec is pretty the rest of Canada can't be? Not sure of your angle here bud

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:44:51 2019 No.13282218

>>13281399
I don't recall the epilogue.
The anti religion stance came from her horror at watching how fast women's rights were overturned in Revolutionary Iran. Literally overnight. But you can't write bad about Islam and get published so she made it about far right Christianity -which tbf at the time was also growing in power and lunacy under Reagan.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:46:13 2019 No.13282223 >>13281707 >Toronto is very white You cannot have been to Toronto once in the past 15 years.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:47:44 2019 No.13282227 >>13282217 Not that anon, but you said the post above had poor choices, so you got a reply with an additional place. Seems to add up to me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:47:51 2019 No.13282228 >>13278998 Came to say this. Literally only her lmao.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:50:02 2019 No.13282238 >>13282181 Halifax is gross.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:53:16 2019 No.13282247

>>13282227
Oh okay, I see now how my post is ambiguous. I only meant to say that to single out Halifax for its beauty out of anywhere in the Maritimes was a poor choice. Halifax is pretty, but not when compared to a lot of the Maritimes. No accounting for taste, though.

>>13282238
I disagree

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 00:53:19 2019 No.13282248 >>13282223 Maybe he meant that it's whiter than Brampton.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:06:57 2019 No.13282481 >>13278690 In Flanders Field was written by a Canadian.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 02:13:12 2019 No.13282503 >>13282481 That does not constitute good writing, it's bland propaganda recited at elementary school assemblies

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:07:03 2019 No.13283669 >>13282503 Yikes.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:08:26 2019 No.13283671 Canada has never and will never produce anything of slight importance in the cultural realm.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:10:14 2019 No.13283676 You seem mad, anon

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:19:06 2019 No.13283693

All the best musicians.
All the best writers.
All the best comedians
Basically all of our traditions remain here.
Completely forgotten. But that's okay because it's what allowed our culture to survive the first time. Stay cucked, Upper Canada.
But collapse soon, we won't be able to survive Americanisation forever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:30:56 2019 No.13283724 >>13282071 >writes a parody of CanLit nature fiction >obviously a disgusting joke of a book >thirty years pass >third-wave feminists extol it as a woke, ennobling, and v. serious masterpiece

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:35:44 2019 No.13283740 >>13278690 Who is Mavis Gallant?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 09:48:27 2019 No.13283785 File: 718 KB, 3072x2304, 1537570490175.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13283671 Haha, America will never win a war. Stay mad, human pollution.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 11:45:33 2019 No.13284266

Canadians live a nice life free of suffering and with great music and good food, they don't need to produce culture to feel good. America is a third world hellhole so they have to write books to cope. Germany, France, and Russia are also shitholes, which is why they have produced so much literature.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 11:49:45 2019 No.13284283 Greatest canadian poet is still Gaston Miron.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 11:53:46 2019 No.13284296 >>13278973 Oryx and Crake is the only Atwood I enjoyed

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 11:57:42 2019 No.13284306
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>>13281569
Where exactly in canada?
Come to North Ontario, we can catch some fish and put them in the smoker. Then we can get high and paddle around in a canoe waiting for the fish to finish.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 11:58:50 2019 No.13284310 >>13282173 Kelowna is kinda fucking hideous, aside from the nature. There are some nice towns in BC though

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 13:30:23 2019 No.13284657 >>13278973 >>13284296 Oryx and Crake, her poetry, and some of her short stories are worthwhile.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 13:39:28 2019 No.13284708 >>13279170 Just give it 10 more years. Maybe even less now that I'm in Vancouver

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 14:11:07 2019 No.13284846
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Mark Laba
Steve Venright
Jason Heroux
Stuart Ross
Jim Smith
Alice Burdick
Lillian Nećakov
Erín Moure
Steven Heighton
Catherine Owen
George Elliot Clarke
David W. McFadden
George Bowering
Gary Barwin
Moez Surani
Jean-Paul Daoust
Michel Garneau
Marie-Claire Blais
Marie Uguay
Denise Desautels
Michel van Schendel
Paul-Marie Lapointe
Réjean Ducharme
Jean Vaillancourt
Jakob Glatstein
Louis Hémon
Malcolm Lowry

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 14:34:57 2019 No.13284961 >>13281852 I'm afraid they are kind of shit. Don't worry, it isn't personal. They literally hate everyone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 14:38:24 2019 No.13284988 >>13280678 I'm surprised The Cunning Man isn't more popular here, I feel like it would play very well with the surge of semi-sincere Christianity.

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 15:59:20 2019 No.13285418

>>13280885
I have a collection that came out after she won the Nobel Prize, Family Furnishings. Loved it, absolutely loved it. Every time I reread a story I both run into things I "remember" and realize only during reading were not in the text but vivid associations, and gorgeous little details I overlooked in earlier readings. Her psychological insight is to me unrivaled, she has such a keen ear for how people talk and she manages to describe people in all their unpleasantness yet still with so much unspoken respect for their trial and error with life and the way they were shaped by experience.

I have gotten a few avid readers around me to try her and no one has been as enthusiastic as I am, which was disappointing, but I still stand by it. Her stories are very quiet and introspective, don't expect real laughter or too big for life characters or swift turns of dramatic events, but to me no other writer can come close to her depiction of everyday life as it is lived and experienced by everyday people.

And to top it all off she has not just been productive for virtually her whole life, she has only gotten better at what she does.

Also this might just be because I have a soft spot for Cohen anyway for obvious reasons but I quite enjoyed his novels. Beautiful Losers is too experimental for its own good and just an odd curveball of a novel, but the Favorite Game is a relatively classic and touching coming of age story.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 16:01:49 2019 No.13285430 I wrote some brilliant poetry in the bathroom stall if that counts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 18:49:43 2019 No.13286316 Our Alberta Heritage by Jacques Hamilton

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 19:37:29 2019 No.13286538 What would a Canadian Chart look like?

Anonymous Wed Jun 12 20:29:50 2019 No.13286823

>>13282173
Amazing list of curated tourist towns that still fail be 1/5th as charming as the average non-descript town in England. I'm talking about the real towns, industry towns, towns that are not made for tourists. The towns with run down homes, rusty cars in ditches on the sides of the roads, towns whose downtown is an exact replica of the bugerpunk thread OP picture. In other words, 99% of Canadian towns.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 20:54:40 2019 No.13286960 Jack Kerouac

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 20:58:33 2019 No.13286975 File: 6 KB, 241x251, 1554614588772.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13286823 >Yellowknife >Rouyn >tourist towns

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 21:42:34 2019 No.13287160 Surprised Dany Laferrière isn’t more popular on /lit/.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 12 21:55:46 2019 No.13287234 >>13278690 My Collected 4chan Posts.

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