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Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:01:21 2021 No.19609059 [Reply] [Original]

Best book of the 20th century?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:04:27 2021 No.19609072 >>19609059 Molloy - Beckett Correction - Bernhard Winter's Journal - Bove Seiobo There Below - Krasznahorkai

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:04:52 2021 No.19609075 File: 47 KB, 295x450, steinbeck_eastofeden.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19609059 That's a pretty good contender, but it's East of Eden for me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:05:28 2021 No.19609078 >The magic mountain >The man without qualities >Anthagony >The alexandria quartet >The tunnel Only 5 contenders

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:08:29 2021 No.19609089 File: 18 KB, 309x475, DoC.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19609059 Pic + Journey The Man Without Qualities Death of Virgil Good Soldier Svejk Melancholy of Resistance Soul by Platonov American - J R

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:10:15 2021 No.19609101 >>19609059 Ulysses One Hundred Years of Solitude The Sound and the Fury

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:11:16 2021 No.19609107 >>19609078 >The tunnel lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:18:31 2021 No.19609135 >>19609101 Faulkner is a contender but Absolam Absolam > TSaTF

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:33:48 2021 No.19609207 >>19609059 pic has some of the best writing but it's not at all the best book it sure gets sloppy and cringe toward the very end a good example of why you don't force symbolism and force plot

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:38:42 2021 No.19609230 >>19609207 >why you don't force symbolism and force plot without spoilers, can you please explain what you mean? i am thinking of buying this, and it's a bit expensive in my country :/

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:43:54 2021 No.19609245 File: 39 KB, 295x500, 9780006336426-uk-300.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Stands alone far above anything else for non-fiction

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:45:19 2021 No.19609249 >>19609245 >Gulag Archipelago >non-fiction

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 13:48:20 2021 No.19609266 >>19609245 It is not even as good as Kolyma Tales.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 14:15:42 2021 No.19609408 >>19609135 Correct. Absalom is in the pantheon of great American literature, possibly even at the very top of it.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 14:51:26 2021 No.19609544 >>19609245 This. In the very least it's perhaps the most influential and important book of the 20th century.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 14:55:45 2021 No.19609560 >>19609468 Do you own this and/or have read it?

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 15:08:05 2021 No.19609622 >>19609230 He sticks to to a formula revolving around the number 12. Kind of warps what could have been a more natural ending. The endings for the different characters is a bit too coincidental, most likely because it was thought out first.

Anonymous Tue Dec 21 16:25:02 2021 No.19609945

>>19609560
i own it and ive read it. i plan on rereading it after reading all of kazantzakis's other major works and prevelakis's biography of him. but for now i reread passages every so often, mainy the 7 headed god, buddha/whore conversation and the death scene.

>>	Anonymous Tue Dec 21 21:32:44 2021 No.19611113 >>19609249 Seething commie

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 01:46:05 2021 No.19611956 >>19611113 ok chud

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 03:50:14 2021 No.19612273 >>19609107 only good one on that list.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 03:51:19 2021 No.19612280 >>19609135 TSaTF > Absolam Absolam

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 07:31:10 2021 No.19612755 >>19612280 It's a toss up that isn't seriously worth debating

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 13:44:04 2021 No.19614140 >>19612755 They are very different, but Absolam Absolam works better on a thematic level while still having the same writing quality

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>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 13:53:42 2021 No.19614182 >>19609059 No. Incoherent rambling

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 13:57:34 2021 No.19614201 File: 251 KB, 1012x1600, 63C17932-C9F6-470F-BCE7-E25F5C5FE2F4.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] And it’s not even close.

Anonymous Wed Dec 22 14:06:13 2021 No.19614249

>>19609059
>>19609059
Under the Volcano is Good, but it can't be the best book of the 20th century.
Imho has a fundamental flaw. You have "3 protagonists" but each chara speaks with the same inner voice (lexicon/syntax in the flow of thoughts doesn't change according to the life experience).
Imho the project was too ambitious for Lowry's talent.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 16:18:50 2021 No.19614858 File: 21 KB, 220x316, 220px-ChuDVD.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19611956 Chud is such a pathetic insult. The left really can't meme.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 16:55:57 2021 No.19615010 Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 16:57:44 2021 No.19615018 File: 80 KB, 1200x675, confusedanimegirl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19615010 >Published 1851

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 17:00:55 2021 No.19615030 Who the hell has read enough 20th century literature to confidently say which book is the best. Even then I doubt you'd be able to

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 17:01:30 2021 No.19615035 >>19615018 It is probably the anon who was recently saying that MD is modern and fresh even by today's standards.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 17:06:48 2021 No.19615068 >>19615018 Actually didn’t know it was that old but makes sense now that you say it >>19615035 Wasn’t me No it isn’t modern. It’s a hell of a book though and those who haven’t read it have learned to read in vain

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 17:10:21 2021 No.19615098 >>19615068 Moby-Dick is, if not the Great American Novel, then at least the greatest American Novel. Melville ranks with Shakespeare and Goethe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 17:29:31 2021 No.19615206 >>19614858 As opposed to “commie”? Do you lack self-awareness?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 18:19:07 2021 No.19615430 >>19615098 >one great novel >DUDE SECOND SHAKESPEARE I hate Americans.

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 20:21:13 2021 No.19615839 >>19609089 good taste

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 20:25:31 2021 No.19615858 >>19615430 Melville's writing is objectively on or near the same level as Shakespeare's

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 20:28:05 2021 No.19615867 >>19615098 >Moby-Dick is, if not the Great American Novel, then at least the greatest American Novel. What?

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 20:45:07 2021 No.19615918 >>19615867 I meant what I said

>>	Anonymous Wed Dec 22 22:53:10 2021 No.19616417 >>19615858 >>19615867 >>19615918 muh Merica USA only 222 years old ya probably not on the Shakes level. Moby Cock, then what Tafeeety ? GTFO. Go consume christmas at walmart McChud

Anonymous Thu Dec 23 00:59:44 2021 No.19616808

>>19615206
I'm not the anon who called you a commie. But yes, making fun of someone by calling them "commie" because they're triggered by what Gulag Archipeligo says about their faggy ideology is better than "chud."

Especially so now that you've attempted to lean into the concept of self-awareness while unironically coming to the defense of a utopian ideology.
>"Noooo. That wasn't real communism! The prison camps weren't even that bad!"
Fuck off retard. You have to be 18 to post here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 23 09:49:58 2021 No.19618014 >>19616808 Good lord

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 23 11:23:22 2021 No.19618304 File: 80 KB, 228x203, confused.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>19615918 What? >>19616808 What?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 23 11:39:33 2021 No.19618356 >>19612273 >Gass >good Kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 23 17:41:47 2021 No.19620087 >>19618304 learn more

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 23 17:46:26 2021 No.19620118 It's impossible to pick just one book from almost any century, let alone one that contains the sheer variety that the 20th did. My personal favorite (at least my favorite that hasn't already been named) is The Tree of Man by Patrick White

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