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What do you personally consider to be THE great american novel? Is there a consensus among /lit/? I'm assuming there isn't, but I don't come here often.

>> No.16874188

The bible

>> No.16874189

haven't read nearly enough to say for sure, but Gatsby gave me that GAN feeling. death of the dream and all that.

>> No.16874190

It has been and will always remain Huckleberry Finn.

It's the only Great "American" Novel. Every other novel on that list is either a "Southern American" novel or a "New Yorker American" Novel.

>> No.16874198

>>16874179
probably Huck Finn, most /litizens wont admit it because its highschool-core

>> No.16874202

Moby-Dick

>> No.16874226

Catch 22 is a weird inclusion. The simple criteria should be a story starring Americans, taking place in America, and being primarily about America. Catch 22 only hits one of the categories, having a cast of American characters.

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It's The Grapes of Wrath, both in terms of subject matter and prose.

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>> No.16874274

>>16874179
Personally I think it's between Moby-Dick and Huck Finn, and if I had to chose I'd say Moby-Dick. Grapes of Wrath is probably up there but I haven't finished reading it yet.

Most people on lit will say gatsby, but I think it doesn't really compare to the other great american novels

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/thread

>> No.16874280

>>16874265
fitting that the great american novel should be a scathing 450 page rebuke of what america became

>> No.16874308

>>16874226
Ditto Sun Also Rises. Hemingway and his expatriate buddies were ashamed of being American and spent all their time abroad, speaking foreign languages and acquiring foreign citizenships. Only Fitzgerald was really writing about America.

>> No.16874309

>>16874179
Moby Dick. Hucky Finn. East of Eden.

>> No.16874312

Give me the Dick

>> No.16874319

>>16874179
Can we all agree that The Scarlet Letter is the worst book on that fuckin graph.

>> No.16874356

The Sound and the Fury shouldn’t be Faulkner’s contender for GAN.
Absalom, Absalom! Better fits the criteria.
Got the land theft from the Indians, turning the land into a source of wealth, slavery and slavery coming back to bite the white man in the ass due to the horrors of race mixing

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