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>England=Shakespeare
>Italy=Dante
>Spain=Cervantes
>France=Montaigne
>Germany=Goethe
>America=Henry James
>Japan=Soseki
continue

>> No.15859782

>Russia - Chekhov

>> No.15859841

>Ἑλλάς= Ὅμηρος

>> No.15859881

>USA=Melville
>Ireland=Joyce
>Cuba=Lezama
>Scotland=Scott
>Chile=Neruda
>Australia=Kangaroo #353
>Brazil=some nigger

>> No.15860752

>>15859776
>>Japan=Soseki
Why not Basho or some other actually old/classical writer?

>>15859782
Nah, it's either Pushkin or Dostoyevsky

>> No.15860765

>>15860752
>Nah, it's either Pushkin or Dostoyevsky
It's actually Tolstoy.

>> No.15860794

Sweden = No one since the government fucked our language in the 20th century so all Swedish writers pre 1950 are writing in an old dialect

>> No.15860799

>>15860794
What the fuck? What happened swedebro?

>> No.15860809

>>15860765
Ask anyone what their favourite book is and at least a third will say something by Fyodor

>> No.15860833

>>15860809
Maybe if you think the entire world is /lit/

>>15860765
I actually like Tolstoy more than Dosto and Pushkin the Nigger, but the latter two are nonetheless more spiritually "essential" for Russian culture and culture in general (at least in Dosto's case).

>> No.15860836

>>15860809
Is this a popularity contest?

>> No.15861009
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>>15859776
>Henry James

>> No.15861015

>>15859776
>America=Henry James
kek sorry but no

>> No.15861016

>>15860794
What about Ibsen

>> No.15861021

>>15861009
>>15861015
filtered

>> No.15861023

>>15861016
Nvm he’s from another indistinguishable Scandinavian backwater

>> No.15861030

>>15861021
It's Melville, retard.

>> No.15861067

>>15859776
Argentina=Borges
Mexico=Rulfo
Colombia=Garcia Marquez
Peru=Vallejo
Chile=Donoso
Nicaragua=Dario

>> No.15861084

>>15859776
France should be Flaubert or Proust, but otherwise fine.

>> No.15861085

>>15861021
Melville, Faulkner or Whitman capture best the American spirit (and are superior writers), James is too European.

>> No.15861089

>>15861067
Chile is obviously Neruda.

>> No.15861102

>>15861084
Montiagne is fine, he's more important than those too. Rabelais would be a good choice too.

>> No.15861104

>>15861084
I thought it was generally said to be Moliere

>> No.15861105

>>15861085
I agree with this burger.

>> No.15861115

>>15861089
Never liked his poetry that much, and I love Donoso's novels, but I guess you are right.

>> No.15861140

>>15861102
>>15861104

France is filled to the brim with kino writers, and everyone remotely into literature should have read Stendhal, Balzac, Moliere, Maupassant, Montaigne etc. But Flaubert and Proust achieved true mastery of prose, and were greater in terms of sheer skill and aesthetic beauty. There is very little in my experience which has exceeded the elemental pleasure of reading Madame Bovary or Swann's Way for the first time.

>> No.15861197

>>15861140
I think Flaubert edges out Proust slightly though I guess it's a matter of taste. Are they really comparable to Shakespeare in terms of impact on France's literary tradition though? It seems their later dates alone are a bit of an issue, especially Proust.

>> No.15861201

Brazil = Machado de Assis
Portugal = Éça de Queiroz

>> No.15861223

>>15861201
Camões actually.

>> No.15861230

>>15861085
Yeah James basically disowned America. You can have him and Eliot.

>> No.15861263

>>15861140
Are you French?

>> No.15861516

>>15861197
"later" simply means closer to our current era. Shakespeare's contemporaries will have considered him recent in comparison to, say, Homer or Virgil. I think that in time Flaubert and Proust will only gain significance.

>>15861263
No, I'm English.

>> No.15861638

>>15861223
Pessoa actually.

>> No.15861645

France= Hugo
Germany= Mann
Chile= Neruda
Peru= Vargas
Colombia= Garcia

>> No.15861649

>>15859776
>>France=Montaigne
Really?

>> No.15861661

>>15861645
>Germany= Mann
Goethe*. The incestuous pedophile is not Germany's most iconic writer.

>> No.15861678

Argentina=Borges

>> No.15861730

>>15860836
>a thread about what the most popular author from each country is
Anon i.....

>> No.15861745

>>15861730
I read it as the most iconic/best rather than most popular.

>> No.15861791

Denmark=V. Jensen

>> No.15861815

>>15861745
Yeah ignore retards who say "anon i...." they're from reddit

>> No.15861826

>>15860794
What are you on about? Are you talking about the decline of the verb plurals? Because it's not an issue at all. If you're speaking about the spelling reform; how the fuck are you unable to read Strindberg in original? Did your parents choke you out for too long as a child?

>>15860799
He fell on his god damn head.

>> No.15861834

Denmark=Kierkegaard

>> No.15861858

>>15861085
Not that anon.
Maybe because I'm not American and I was too influenced by the education in my country because I never "got" Whitman. I can see the contradictions of American society in Melville and the criticism of it in Faulkner, but Whitman falls flat and Pound is better.

>> No.15861863

>>15861834
Not Andersen?

>> No.15861871
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>>15861858
>Pound better than Whitman

>> No.15861911

>>15861871
Filtered.

>> No.15861924

USA = E. L. James

>> No.15861959
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15861959

Who is Canada?

>> No.15861962

Turkey = Marcus Aurelius

>> No.15861980

>>15861911
Says the faggot who got filtered by Whitman lmao

>> No.15862047

>>15861962
Very daring

>> No.15862516

>>15860794
Vafan snackar du om?

>> No.15862560

>>15860752
>not tolstoy

>> No.15862571

>>15861009
dfw is cringe and has almost no literary merit. it's basically some retarded middle aged guy coping with the fact that he's an intellectual midget in very, VERY bad prose

>> No.15862653

Czechia - Kafka

>> No.15862684

>>15861959

It should be Alice Munro, but it's Mararet Atwood unfortunately.

>> No.15862773

>>15862684
Hmm, I actually never knew Atwood was Canadian

>> No.15862783

>>15862653
didn't he write in German?

>> No.15862820

It's impossible to decide who the great writer of France is

>> No.15862835

>>15862653
I would go with Kundera

>> No.15862979

>>15859776
>Argentina=Borges

>> No.15863106

>>15862979
>for the 100th time

>> No.15863700

China?
Japan?
South Korea?
Philippines?
Vietnam?
Croatia?
Sweden?

>> No.15863729

England = JK from Jamiroquai

>> No.15863760

>>15863700
>Croatia?
Krleža, perhaps Matoš

>> No.15863774

>>15859776
>>15861015
>>15861021
the fact that he is the only who needs his first name listed proves he doesnt belong there

>> No.15863841

>>15860752
>Why not Basho or some other actually old/classical writer?
I had the same thought. Perhaps Murasaki Shikibu would better serve that purpose, but I'm not sure.

>> No.15863962

Turkey = Rumi

>> No.15864191

Norway—Ibsen
Sweden—Enquist
Hungary—Szabó
Austria—Rilke

>> No.15865277

>>15859776
>South Africa=Coetzee
>Australia=Coetzee
>South America=Coetzee

>> No.15865338

>>15861140
>France is filled to the brim with midwit writers
ftfy

>> No.15865615

>>15864191
Sweden is Strindberg whether we like it or not.

>> No.15865661

>>15861067
What nationality does Bolaño count as since he moved all over Latin America and eventually Spain?

>> No.15865911

>>15863962
Rumi was Iranian/Iranic.

>> No.15865919

>Mars=X Æ A-Xii

>> No.15865931

>>15865615
He was woke on the WQ so of course we like him

>> No.15866155

>>15863700
China - Luo Guanzhong
Vietnam - Nam Cao

>> No.15866351

Romania = Eminescu

>> No.15866377
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>>15859776
>Australia=

>> No.15866466

>>15866377
Patrick White

>> No.15866502

>Brazil=Machado
>Ireland=Joyce

>> No.15866506

>>15866466
I heard he's good but does he really rank on the world stage? Could the spirit of Australia from the mid-century really compete with the other nations?

>> No.15866830

Germany = Schiller

>> No.15866843

>>15860809
>Ask anyone what their favourite book is and at least a third will say something by Fyodor
anon, i think you severely overestimate the reading repitoire of a third of the earth's population. even if you mean it by country.

>> No.15866852

>>15861516
you are all dirty franks to me. what is it to me if you franks use a few more germanic words.

>> No.15866861

>>15866830
Schiller was personally more influential on writing I like, but Goethe would be more influential and "essential", surely?