So according to Harold Bloom the greatest contemporary novels are:
American Author n.1 - American Novel n.1 American Author n.2 - American Novel n.2 American Author n.3 - American Novel n.3 American Author n.4 - American Novel n.4 American Author n.5 - American Novel n.5 American Author n.6 - American Novel n.6 American Author n.7 - American Novel n.7 American Author n.8 - American Novel n.8
Fucking great!
Julian Lewis
t. Europoor
All of the greatest writers of the 20th century were American with the single exception of Joyce. And America will be the cultural center of the West when Europe becomes a caliphate.
Jace Powell
name a decent 20th century american novelist bar faulkner
Xavier Russell
Hemingway
>inb4 he sux Even Joyce praised Hemingway
Benjamin Wood
sinclair lewis
Joshua Jones
>a Jew is shilling for Jewnited Shtates what a surprise
Tyler Bennett
>All of the greatest writers of the 20th century were American thanks for the laugh
Owen Perry
haha
Jack Stewart
False.
Josiah Ortiz
Maya Angelou
Saul Bellow
Ayden Scott
...
Elijah Ramirez
Oh cool, it's another shit flinging thread with barely the shadow of a coherent argument. Haven't had one of these on the board for a while.
Xavier Diaz
>american writers >a nigger and a jew
Nathan Green
Why is my country like this?
Hunter Gutierrez
OP in the other thread got his quote wrong. Bloom said those are specifically his favourite contemporary American novels.
Camden Ortiz
Gass Gaddis
Gabriel Davis
Updike
Dylan Scott
pynchon mccarthy gass gaddis fitzgerald morrison bob dylan :^)
Jaxon Wood
Weird how they amounted to something and you won't.
Oliver Wright
Only Gaddis and Fitzgerald are good from them
Nolan Sanders
Why no one mentions "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth" ?
Samuel Gomez
This.
t. an Australian shitposter
Charles Miller
You know his longlist for contemporary lit at the end of The Western Canon includes a section for every major country and semiautonomous region in the West—right?
Austin Long
america is #1
Zachary Barnes
Bloom himself has said in many interviews that the greatest accomplishments pf xx century literature were by the Irish, being Joyce and Yeats examples of this.
William Bailey
America became the modern Rome and the most innovative and advanced culture on the planet shortly after WWII. To include other nations alongside the United States would be disingenious and inaccurate. If you haven't picked up on this yet then you must be culturally illiterate