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Here's a challenge for you, /lit/: name a country and the novel you think is the best candidate for the Great (Demonym) Novel. Not necessarily the best novel from that country, but the best representative of the national zeitgeist and mythology.

>> No.3145153

Great Chinese Novel: Outlaws of the Marsh.

>> No.3145163

Great Russian Novel: Dead Souls

>> No.3145307

Great English novel (that's not a novel): The Road to Wigan Pier

>> No.3145344

>>3145153
> Putting Water Margin over Romance of Three Kingdoms

>> No.3145352

Canada: Fifth Business

>> No.3145410

Great Japanese Novel: No Longer Human

>> No.3146520

>>3145129
Great Turkish Novel: My Name is Red

>> No.3146553

Great Irish novel:The Third Policeman.

>> No.3146585

>>3146553

Actually, change to At Swim-Two-Birds.

>> No.3146664

Great Spanish Novel: La Colmena de Camilo Jose Cela.

>> No.3146801

This is a horrible thread. No one here is going to have read more than a dozen or two novels from the country they try to pick a "great" novel from, aside from maybe the UK and the USA.

>> No.3148148

bump

>> No.3148181

>>3146801
French, Japanese, Russian and German are pretty popular here. There are some posters who like stuff from the near-east as well.

>> No.3148245

>>3148181
>>3146801

I'm a Turk.
I posted this:>>3146520

>> No.3148248

>>3148245
What other Turkish novels would you recommend?

>> No.3148272

>>3148245
>>3148248
I find it difficult to find English translations that aren't Orhan Pamuk