>Melville, Poe, Hemingway, Faulkner, Kerouac, McCarthy, DFW etc
vs
>Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Nabokov, Pelevin etc
Which is better? Which do you prefer?
American lit vs Russian lit
Alexander White
Jack Gray
>DFW
Carson Morales
mark twain is better than everyone
Easton Garcia
>Pound
>Poe
>Melville
>Hawthorne
>Faulkner
>Crane
>James
>Whitman
>Nabokov
>Dickinson
>Jefferson
>Emerson
>Thoreau
>Eliot
>Stevens
>Cummings
>Stein
>Hemingway
>Anderson
>Dos Passos
>Miller
>Gaddis
>Updike
>Pynchon
>Irving
>DeLillo
>every notable horror fiction writer ever
>every notable science fiction writer ever
>every notable detective fiction writer ever
>every notable genre fiction writer ever
vs
>a bunch of inbred fetal alcohol syndrome slavs
Levi Ross
Out of all those American authors, I don't think any has or will have as much relevance to world literature as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, although I love and have read most of those American authors you have posted.
William Taylor
melville has, hemingway too probably
Matthew Clark
I love Sminem
James Sanders
>no hawthorne, twain, emerson or salinger
Julian Rivera
America has overall better quality and more of it but the best of the best of russian works are among the highs of the western canon.
Jayden Edwards
Nabokov could go in either group. His best works were written in English.