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Anonymous Thu Feb 6 08:42:39 2020 No.14672728 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/ votes Greatest Writer/Poet of each Country
Just post your country's best and we'll eventually decide through strawpolls
These are the nearly-universally agreed upon choices that are already decided:
>England: Shakespeare
>Italy: Dante
>Greece: Homer
>Spain: Cervantes
Go

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 08:47:02 2020 No.14672742 >Australia >Banjo Paterson

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 08:47:13 2020 No.14672744 I'm also going to add Rustaveli for Georgia and "Kalevala" for Finland. Good? Goethe for Germany? I want this to be mostly decided by natives.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 08:51:17 2020 No.14672759 >>14672742 Poll Australia: https://strawpoll.com/he8rye8z Germany : https://strawpoll.com/zez2148w

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 09:40:46 2020 No.14672955 >>14672728 King of Anglos: Shakespeare King of Meds: Dante King of Krauts: Goethe

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 09:44:47 2020 No.14672972 >>14672744 kalevala isn't a person, you dumb, stupid person

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 09:47:07 2020 No.14672982 Croatia: Mate Balota

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 09:48:25 2020 No.14672986 Portugal has to be Fernando Pessoa

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 09:49:36 2020 No.14672991

France is a tough one, they have a bunch of great writers but none is considered "the greatest". That said I'd vote for Flaubert personally. Not sure about Russia as they kind of have the same situation.

Borges for Argentina and Kafka for Czechia should be pretty uncontroversial choices too. Maybe Hrabal if you want to count Kafka as German.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 10:00:30 2020 No.14673024 USA: Whitman WCW Frost Poe Dickinson Pound Crane Cummings Plath Hughes Eliot Stevens Longfellow Dunbar Sexton Ginsberg Some of them don't really deserve it, but I just wanted to cover all of the bases.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 10:04:50 2020 No.14673043 Norway: Knut Hamsun Sweden: August Strindberg or Hjalmar Söderberg Denmark: Andersen or Ibsen Finland: Väinö Linna or Eino Leino

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 10:09:44 2020 No.14673074 >>14672972 That's why I put it in quotes faggot

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 10:19:42 2020 No.14673128 Homer was probably from Turkey

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 11:05:51 2020 No.14673335 >>14673043 Hamsun is my favourite writer, but there's a strong case to be made for Ibsen desu

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 11:07:11 2020 No.14673342 Norway: Tor Ulven

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 11:33:29 2020 No.14673460 >>14673128 turkey was established 1922, homer lived about 2000 years beforehand

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 12:39:28 2020 No.14673709 The Netherlands: Couperus

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 13:57:07 2020 No.14674043 >>14672986 No. Camoes and Saramago.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:02:31 2020 No.14674573 >>14672728 Poland: Mickiewicz

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:18:28 2020 No.14674645 >>14672728 Russia: Turgenev

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:19:34 2020 No.14674649 Lithuania: Mickevičius

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:41:58 2020 No.14674772 >>14672728 Russia: Dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:47:05 2020 No.14674792 >>14674649 Jis lenkas

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:47:27 2020 No.14674793 How is it not a given that Ireland is Joyce

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:48:35 2020 No.14674800 >>14674649 he was polish

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:50:03 2020 No.14674807 >>14674800 To negate my fellow countryman I propose Gavelis

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:54:14 2020 No.14674821 >>14672728 France: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautreamont(Ducasse), Cioran. Italy: Leopardi

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 16:59:25 2020 No.14674845
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>>14674793
Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Wilde, C.S. Lewis, Beckett. Joyce may well be the best of these but at times his work is practically unreadable and more about technique and aesthetic value. Ulysses is his finest work and does more to relate the framework of thinking than almost any book, before or after, but he had jumped the shark by the time he got to Finnegan's Wake

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:01:18 2020 No.14674854 >>14672742 Kenneth Slessor bro

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:04:11 2020 No.14674867 >>14672728 >The Future Free Republic of Anonia >me, 10 years in the future You'll all be granted full citzenship of course.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:31:56 2020 No.14674988 >>14674043 HAHAHAHA

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:36:40 2020 No.14675018

>>14674988
Imagine thinking some guy, whose life’s work is a compilation of fragmentary sketches and ideas, is better than the actual national poet of Portugal or the world’s greatest and most decorated novelist of the latter half of the 20th century. Kek.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:40:01 2020 No.14675032 >>14673024 Henry James, Melville, Faulkner >ginsberg

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:41:03 2020 No.14675036 >>14672728 USA: Bukowski, Palanhuick

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:42:30 2020 No.14675043 >>14674645 >>14674772 Gogol

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:44:08 2020 No.14675055

>>14675018
Saramago is absolute shit though. Aquilino Ribeiro is a much better writer than he is, so is Antonio Lobo Antunes. Even Agustina Bessa Luis encapsulates better feelings than Saramago, who just regurgitates allegoric rhetoric and vocabulary.
And well, Pessoa is indeed a better poet than Camoes, even if the comparison is unfair just like saying Kasparov is better than Morphy

Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:52:41 2020 No.14675105

>>14675055
Pessoa is also an easier read, since his Portuguese is modern and his vocabulary common. To fully appreciate Camões, one needs background knowledge and a dictionary. So, basically, anons who don't speak Portuguese, do not take his opinion at face value.
Camões is superior, although quite, quite inferior to the Classics- to be expected.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:52:42 2020 No.14675106 >>14675043 Gogol - khokhol mystic degenerate who ruined russian literature for half a century. Odoyevsky and Veltman miles better

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 17:55:06 2020 No.14675117 >>14673043 >denmark >Ibsen fight me irl

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 22:19:53 2020 No.14676360 >>14673128 Nope, he was Greek and modern people called Turks emigrated to the area in the 1200- 1400s.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 6 22:21:51 2020 No.14676371 >>14672991 Proust? I haven't read him but he's often considered up there

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 00:05:00 2020 No.14676810 File: 72 KB, 800x591, luis-de-gongora.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14672728 Spain, Góngora

Anonymous Fri Feb 7 03:17:47 2020 No.14677353

USA: Melville/Hawthorne/Salinger/F.Scott/Faulker/Hemingway/TS/Henry James/Twain/Dickinson/Steinbeck/Poe/Kerouac
Mexico: Rulfo
Argentina: Borges
Colombia: Marquez
Canada: Bellow
UK: Shakespeare/Milton/Chaucker/Austen/Lewis Carroll/Woolf/Bronte/Orwell/Swift/George Eliot/Dickens/Ford Ford/
France: Proust/Flaubert/Celine/Camus/Stendhal
Germany: Musil/Goethe/Nietzsche
Czechia: Kafka
Portugal: Pessoa
Spain: Cervantes
Italy: Dante
Norway: Hamsun/Ibsen
Denmark: Kierkegaard
Netherlands: Mulisch
Poland: Conrad
Russia: Dosto/Nabokov/Tolstoy/Chekhov/Turgunev/Gogol
Ireland: Joyce
Switzerland: Rousseau
Austria: Rilke
Australia: Patrick White

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 03:20:58 2020 No.14677364 >>14672728 >>England: Shakespeare William Blake you mean.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 03:23:31 2020 No.14677371 >>14672742 I'll also back Slessor, though I wouldn't be mortified if Patterson got it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 03:40:05 2020 No.14677424 Argentina: Enrique Medina Fuck that blind old man with yellow fever.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 05:12:24 2020 No.14677673 What about countries such as Ukraine, Bangladesh, Morocco or Rwanda and so on? Common faggots, enlighten us about your literature

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 05:15:45 2020 No.14677684 >>14677353 Swift's Irish.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 06:31:44 2020 No.14677873 >>14674573 agreed

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 07:14:24 2020 No.14678013 >>14672986 Agreed

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 07:32:22 2020 No.14678060 >>14673043 Uh, Pontoppidan? Oehlenschläger? Bilcher? Holberg? Ingemann? Just know you have shit taste in danish literature.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 08:29:56 2020 No.14678234 >>14672728 China: the Scoffing Scholar of Lanling

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 08:38:40 2020 No.14678264 >>14672728 Canadian Poetry: Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, Al Purdy, Michael Ondaatje, Lorna Crozier, and Anne Carson.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 09:25:11 2020 No.14678409 >>14677353 >Russia:Dosto/Nabokov/Tolstoy/Chekhov/Turgunev/Gogol Dumb? Only Pushkin others are just not at that level >Poland: Conrad Really dumb

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 09:29:14 2020 No.14678427 >>14677673 >Ukraine Shevchenko >Bangladesh Rabindranath Tagore

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 09:37:55 2020 No.14678454 File: 987 KB, 229x176, 1576369303149.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14672728 >Greece: Homer Imagine your country's greatest writer being some dude from over 2000 years ago

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 09:41:16 2020 No.14678467 >>14678454 Late 8th or early 7th century BC, actually. He just might have been the most influential writer of all time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 10:08:51 2020 No.14678552 Ireland: O'Brien

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 11:05:28 2020 No.14678777 >>14678454 >old bad

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 11:06:17 2020 No.14678779 >>14672728 US: Rupi Kaur

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 12:14:44 2020 No.14679128 >>14677353 >USA: 14 names listed >Italy: 1 name Imagine being this much retarded.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 12:43:33 2020 No.14679267 >Wales: >Welsh: R. S. Thomas >English: Dylan Thomas, I guess

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 12:47:12 2020 No.14679283 File: 19 KB, 645x729, image.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14678454 >>14678467 >>14678777 >Homer was a person

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 13:19:47 2020 No.14679437 >>14679283 based

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 7 13:42:10 2020 No.14679577 >>14673128 We can't even confirm if he was a real person or not, let alone where he was born.

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