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15702647 No.15702647 [Reply] [Original]

Now that the dust has settled what is the /lit/ consensus on Mark Twain?

>> No.15702707

>implying the dust has settled
It's still too soon.

>> No.15702963

Very funny

>> No.15703024

>>15702647
A pseud who thought he was funnier than he was. Good writer tho.

>> No.15703032

>>15702647
Nigger haha

>> No.15703069

>>15702647
He's the first true American writer.

>> No.15703148

>>15703069
I'd say that title goes to Emerson.

>> No.15703187

>>15703069
That's a cringey reddit blurb but it should go to Melville

>> No.15703207

>>15703148
He's terrific.
>>15703024
True

>>15703069
Not true, though he's probably the first great postbellum American novelist. Huck Finn is tremendously good.

>> No.15703211
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>>15703187
nice try but Melville isn't even in America

>> No.15703228

>>15703187
>Melville

How does Melville's writing encapsulate the American spirit?

>> No.15703234

>>15703187
that wasn't a cringey reddit blurb, it's a basic saying. Reddit would be feelings based. CAlling him the first great american writer doesn't imply any liking of him. Anyway, youre stupid.

>> No.15703292

>>15703234
no need to be mean

>> No.15703396

>>15703228
Not the anon you're replying.
Every novel or short story from Melville is the encapsulation of the spirit and contradictions of the American people and the American society.

>> No.15703579

>>15703069
>>15703148
>>15703187
It’s literally, actually William Bradford

>> No.15703622

>>15703579
If the statement was "First great writer who lived in America" I would agree, but Emerson was the first American writer who attempted to divert from the Europeans and create a new, American style of writing.

>> No.15703857

>>15703622
Emmerson's essays are so good. I wish more people read them today.

>> No.15704022

>>15702647
racist who hated turkey and muslims and should have all his books removed from library and print.

>> No.15704062
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15704062

I'm upset that he didn't like Jane Austen, who was a much better writer than he was.

>> No.15704152

>>15702647
His cynicism detracted from his humor at times, but a solid writer.
His Joan of Arc shows him off well, having honest appreciation for someone adds a tragic depth to his work that's missing from Huck Finn.
>>15704062
Writers are terrible critics. Never trust their reviews to escape their own aesthetic sensibilities- see Nabokov or Tolstoy.

>> No.15704173

>>15703234
Cry more Ernest Faggotway
>>15703292
Eat shit pussy you’ll never be me

>> No.15704203

>>15703228
Quit being so goddamn dumb