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17241867 No.17241867 [Reply] [Original]

How can non-Americans even compete?

>> No.17241883

>>17241867
They can’t. They are ass mad that their countries don’t have anything as good as moby dick.

>> No.17241897

>>17241883
Brits will try to claim Melville as being "basically British", in fact, one will probably respond to my post saying "Well he is..."

>> No.17241904

>>17241867
Bad chart, but the U.S. dominates fiction

>> No.17241922

>>17241867
The English literary tradition is the greatest in the history of mankind and this board is full of non-english europoors and Hispanics coping and seething about anglos all day because they are jealous. They can't face the fact that even French, German and Russian don't have anywhere near the amount of high-quality literature as English.

>> No.17241962

>>17241867
By writing actually good books, you anglo scum. There is nothing from muttland, which is a country without culture, as good as Tolstoy, Stendhal, Pushkin, Gogol, Celine, Proust, Musil, Broch etc.

>> No.17241996

>>17241922
English is objectively the best language

>> No.17242191

>>17241867
I AM SEETHING WITH RAGE.

>> No.17242289

>>17241996
Imagine thinking this.

>> No.17242338

>>17241867
>read Americanon
>everything is about how soulless American culture has become circling around violence and sex
>read French canon
>everyone is cultured but for some reason easily bored of existence
>read German canon
>everything is about Weltschmerz dealing only in absolutes
>read Irish canon
>everyone is cucked or cucking
>read Russian canon
>every book is a footnote to the Bible
I don't see a clear winner here, but America is sure as hell losing

>> No.17242414

>>17242338
That’s because you’ve only read American postmodernists

>> No.17242532

>>17241962
This

>> No.17243624

>>17241922
>>17241996
based

>> No.17244637
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17244637

To all yuropoors

>> No.17244678

>>17241897
He is though.

>> No.17244690

>>17241962
You literally just cherry picked writers from several completely distinct nations with thousands of years of history as some sort of gotcha.

>> No.17244697

>>17244678
Like pottery

>> No.17244712
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17244712

>>17241867
>irrelevant american noises

>> No.17244740

>>17244712
He's basically American.

>> No.17244742

americans are so retarded. all they're good at is advertising themselves

>> No.17244754

>>17244742
kek

>> No.17244769

>>17241904
This, these aren’t even close to the best America has had to offer. The excellence of American literature is limitless, rivaled only by the French.
Also, Nabokov is not an American, though he is one of the greatest of course

>> No.17244906

>>17241904
well, at least it has The Lost Scrapbook and Lookout Cartridge

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>>17241962
>this mixture is about to create 244 years of incredible literature
there is nothing your seething will change.

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17245038

>>17241922
OH NO NO NO NO NO DON'T TELL THEM THE TRUTH

>> No.17245191

>>17241962
Quebecois?

>> No.17245192

>>17244769
If Nabokov isn’t American then there are authors others can’t claim - Beckett, Conrad, etc.

>> No.17245261

>>17241867
What are Americans going to do when the US becomes majority Spanish-speaking or uses some sort of English-Spanish-AAVE pidgin language? Most of these authors won't even be readable.

>> No.17245275

canadian here. american lit is my favorite. especially the stuff written between the world wars.

>> No.17245947

>>17245275
Canadian too, and I agree

>> No.17247270

who the fuck are 95% of those nigga worshippers? american literature can be reduced to "slavery bad" or "consumerism and big corpos bad".

>> No.17247288

>>17244690
I gave examples. Let me put it this way. Each one of these - Russian, German, French literature BTFO muttland on their own.

>> No.17247698

America is a country without culture or history. Cope.
All good angloid authors are from England.

>> No.17247735

>>17244712
>Shakespeare
A book written in old-American

>> No.17247747

>>17244712
His works were really written by his American born female house slave, he just took the credit. Typical white male bullshit.