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what was the last "great novel"?

>> No.16514963

>>16514959
The Garden of Eden

>> No.16514965
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>>16514959
Infinite Jest

>> No.16514966

>>16514959
DQ

>> No.16514968

>>16514959
Percival Everett's Erasure.

>> No.16515019

>>16514965
this

>> No.16515042
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Literature died after 1943, not because it was sick, but because it was finished.

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>>16515042
1939, in fact.

>> No.16515054

>>16514959
Twilight

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>> No.16515311

>>16514959
His body is so disgusting

>> No.16515325

>>16514959
I don't know, but the last world classic was 100 years of solitude.

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this came out in 2005, i consider it a great novel

>> No.16515328

>>16515311
He’s a bear.they didn’t call him papa for nothing

>> No.16515334

>>16515311
that's called "a real man" sweetie

>> No.16515337

>>16515311
He looked pretty good when he was young though

>> No.16515390

>>16514959
Love in the Time of Cholera

>> No.16515405

>>16515326
You must have a different definition.

>> No.16515578

>>16515325
this and gr both feel like different endings to the canon. one successfully recapitulates all of human history, including its end, while the other argues against the intelligibility of society as it currently stands. if pynchon is literary hume, who will be our literary kant?

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Anglos need not apply

>> No.16515658

>>16514965
sauce on the female-born biological cisgender woman?

>> No.16515661

The Unconsoled (1995)

>> No.16515663

>>16514965
Underworld, actually. DFW was really just a retarded version of Don Delillo.

>> No.16515674

>>16515405
bitch please

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>>16514959
JUST THE GREATEST WORK OF LITERATURE OF THE 21st CENTURY WHOSE COMPLEXITY AND INNOVATION HAVE STILL NEVER BEEN OUTDONE. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA DANIELEWSKILET MIDWITS COMPLETELY BTFO’d

>> No.16515941

>>16515042
>Thomas Mann
Lyl

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>>16515337

not really, he wasn't an uggo but he peaked around middle age.

>> No.16516670

Submission

>> No.16516689

>>16515694
I remember people recommending this on /b/ back when I first started browsing 4chan. It might have been the first meme book. I used to see it talked about a lot.

>> No.16516707

>>16515630
This