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Want to know why there hasn't been a 'landmark' work of fiction in ~20 years?

Because it is up to us.

Literally nothing groundbreaking wasreleased in 1900-1920

It happens at the turn of every century, people don't know where to go, but eventually some smart cookies find their feet

It is up to US (You) to write the next landmark works of fiction

The burden is on YOUR (You) shoulders

DO IT

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>>9458203
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action
Fuck off.

>> No.9458225

>>9458219
vomit

>> No.9458227
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>there hasn't been a 'landmark' work of fiction in ~20 years

>> No.9458241

>>9458227
name one

>> No.9458249

>>9458241
No matter what I say you will greentext and insist you are right. This is shitposting at it's least imaginative level.

>> No.9458262

>>9458241
>"Pragmatism" (1907)
>"The Jungle" (1906)
>"The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" (1901)
>"Nostromo" (1904)
>"Theory of Business Enterprise" (1904)
>"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904)
>"1984" (1949)
Just off the top of my head (+ Google)

>> No.9458285

>>9458262
All trash

>> No.9458297

>>9458285
Ebin

>> No.9458300

>>9458262
>the last 20 years

>> No.9458301

>>9458297
you obviously know what he's saying dipshit

>> No.9458302

>>9458262
None of those works really compare to the stuff that started coming out in 1920 and onwards.

>> No.9458310

>>9458302
>>9458301
Do they really not though?, I think is his point

>> No.9458313

>>9458310
The only notable fiction there is "The Jungle," and it's only notable because it led to US food safety laws.

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>>9458317

Good book.

>> No.9458388

>>9458317
>>9458326
i've heard gushing reviews from people who hate what NYT acclaims, but the one-sentence thing seems so gimmicky—just the kind of thing a modern frenchman would do to a good premise.

what is the prose style like?

>> No.9458423

The first volume of In Search of Lost Time was published in 1913.

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>>9458203
>nothing groundbreaking wasreleased in 1900-1920

>> No.9458445

>>9458388

It's pretty good IMO, you get used to it. The most gimmicky part is a story within a story that the main character reads on the train. These chapters distracted from the rest of the book and lessened the effect of the run on sentence.

>> No.9458469

>>9458388
the reviews make it sound gimmicky,
at first its just weird trying to adjust your reading to his train of thought/stream of consciousness style cause it doesn't stop and it jumps around but that's what makes it unique

>>9458445 agree with this, it was like book inception haha too much

>> No.9458486

>>9458262
>"Pragmatism" (1907)
not fiction
>"The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" (1901)
not fiction
>"Theory of Business Enterprise" (1904)
not fiction
>"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904)
not fiction
>"1984" (1949)
not 1900-1920

how could you fuck up a list of fiction 1900-1920 so badly?

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Go suck a dick, OP.

>> No.9458583

>>9458203
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Sons and Lovers
Death in Venice
The Metamorphosis

>> No.9458629

>>9458583
Crap