Why do non-Americans struggle so much to write compelling contemporary literature?

They're undereducated, oversocialized, and far too content with their lives to ever understand, much less create, beautiful works of art. Americans seek freedom; the rest of the world merely seeks comfort.

>Americans don't have compelling contemporary literature
>Don DeLillo, DFW, Cormac McCarthy, Phillip Roth

Try a little harder next time

He literally said the opposite thing
What is wrong with your brain
Does it work?
Do you even have one?

The only thing that gets published in the Anglosphere is message fiction. Culture is dead and progressives killed it.

I-Ishiguro?

Low stock

American Excellence

lol burger bait

Dickens?

actually it's the other way around, bro. the only americans who worth a damn are near 80 years old now

American here, I have to agree with this. Great American white men will be gone soon and the country will be left with a generation who grew up on phones and watching netflix throughout their youth. American literature and European literature are both good but it's obvious that Europe will surpass America in several years.

Norwegians are spewing up god tier stories like mad.

Same here in western europe, I have faith in eastern europe though.

This is why we need to overthrow the current world order by form the united states of europe

You do realize that the rest of the world speaks different languages right? Most countries have a coherent and good contemporary literary scene that reflects their experiences and life-circumstances. That fact that you speak no other languages and thus are unable to partake in them is your own fault.

Everyone knows that the best contemporary literature is being written in Spanish.

>contemporary literature
wew lad

This, others do fine but Americans outshine them by so much they seem less than mediocre

u wot mate?

Because we live in an era of globalisation which really means American values imparted to the wider world. Of course you're going to struggle to appreciate any other form of literature when your definition of 'compelling' is defined by what you feel you can relate to. Also translations.

Compelling literature does not fare well in todays market where people crave cookiecutter love stories or some harry potter clone or whatever, no one reads ACTUAL shit anymore.
Hell people dont read in general anymore

>men in their eighties and a guy who killed himself ages ago
>contemporary

This desu, the absolute madmen.

Americans can't speak properly, never mind put that babble onto paper.

You know we get fuck-all translated and published in the U.S., right? Unless you're fluent in another language you can't really comment on the state of most other countries' literature.

Yeah I hate to sound death knell-y but the other day someone struggled for five minutes to express the concept of nonfiction ("...that thing where it isn't fake...")

The same goes for the arts, for the most part. Europe is cold and slow to process things.

However, this is why all of the great philosophers are European.

Can confirm. I work in a public library in an affluent suburb, and it is: a) generally patronized by the 65+ crowd, who b) read Patterson, Baldacci, Steel, Roberts, Robards, Grafton, etc. exclusively, except when some flavor-of-the-month capital-L Literature makes headlines like The Handmaiden's Tale or The Underground Railroad. When we got in Zadie Smith's latest novel, Swing Time, I was the only person who read it.

What's worse is the children -there's a very clear divide between the genders. Girls read more and pretty varied books, and boys...not at all. Occasionally the parents will get some Minecraft guide or Guinness World Records book for them, but otherwise don't ever seem to make any attempt to get them to read longer fiction. When they do, they always ask the most generalized questions like "What's a good book for an 8 year-old boy?" They seem absolutely clueless about what the boys might be interested in, whereas the girls usually know themselves.