If you had to pick a book to represent your country which would it be?
If you had to pick a book to represent your country which would it be?
If you had to pick a book to represent the world, what would it be?
usa
naked lunch
Mexico
Book - Pedro Paramo
USA is kind of tricky, most of our "great novels" were written pre-war. I can't think of many books off the top of my head that accurately represent modern America (at least ideologically).
burger
the fart of the deal
bible
How about Brave New World?
USA
Anything by Thomas Pynchon.
Brazil
Macunaíma
Oh boy did you get that right
...
Mein Kampf or The Ass Goblins of Auschwitz
USA
Chile
La Araucana
USA, The Grapes of Wrath
The Holy Bible
UK
Canterbury Tales
I don't know. Never read a Turkish book in my life :f
Austria
The Trial
Sweden, Beowulf
Italy
The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
Russia
War and Peace
Argentina
Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism
USA :Better Abs in 30 days.
...Mexico is full of ghosts?
For the US I think it would have to be something by Steinbeck as someone posted before.
>ghosts
you cant be this retarded
Denmark.
Winter's Tales - Karen Blixen
Apparently I can. Explain, please.
Ulysses
That was a hard one
>Kafka
>Austrian
This is some special breed of bait
He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and died in Austria proper, what other nation could possibly claim him? Czech Republic? No, he wrote in German, you slavboy.
He was born in Prague and lived most of his life in Prague.
Yes, he spoke german, but that was in fashion. It's kinda like saying that Gustavus Adolphus was austrian as well, because german was the second language of those nations at the time.
Norway
Growth of the soil by Knut Hamsun
Moby Dick
Gravity's Rainbow
I only posted it to trigger Czechs, sorry.
Tutunamayanlar or My Meme Hawk you pleb
Tutunamayan-meme'ler. Yeah maybe some day
Oblomov is a much better choice.
mediocre memes
Germany
Adorno/Horkheimer - Dialectic of Enlightment
Russia
"Bury Me Behind the Baseboard"
Fuck off wankers
Homo Faber. Faber catches the typical swiss just well.
It's set in Germany but I think The Cannibal represents what's going on in 'murrica right now pretty well.
White Noise, Infinite Jest
Australia
Veeky Forums
A book which represents my country may not necessarily be from my country, you feel me?
To Kill a Mockingbird
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I laughed for a good minute at the image of some crocodile Dundee stereotype sitting at a computer and posting pepes.
Wallenstein
Venezuela
Oficio de difuntos
Depends. If I was entering into some kind of competition then obviously Ulysses, but in general I think mythology is a more fitting representative so the Táin
>but in general I think mythology is a more fitting representative
Oh wow you're a genuine gobshite