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!
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.
name a decent 20th century american novelist bar faulkner
Hemingway
>inb4 he sux
Even Joyce praised Hemingway
sinclair lewis
>a Jew is shilling for Jewnited Shtates
what a surprise
>All of the greatest writers of the 20th century were American
thanks for the laugh
haha
False.
Maya Angelou
Saul Bellow
...
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.
>american writers
>a nigger and a jew
Why is my country like this?
OP in the other thread got his quote wrong. Bloom said those are specifically his favourite contemporary American novels.
Gass
Gaddis
Updike
pynchon
mccarthy
gass
gaddis
fitzgerald
morrison
bob dylan :^)
Weird how they amounted to something and you won't.
Only Gaddis and Fitzgerald are good from them
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" ?
This.
t. an Australian shitposter
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?
america is #1
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.
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