Want to know why there hasn't been a 'landmark' work of fiction in ~20 years?

Want to know why there hasn't been a 'landmark' work of fiction in ~20 years?

Because it is up to us.

Literally nothing groundbreaking wasreleased in 1900-1920

It happens at the turn of every century, people don't know where to go, but eventually some smart cookies find their feet

It is up to US (You) to write the next landmark works of fiction

The burden is on YOUR (You) shoulders

DO IT

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>there hasn't been a 'landmark' work of fiction in ~20 years

name one

No matter what I say you will greentext and insist you are right. This is shitposting at it's least imaginative level.

>"Pragmatism" (1907)
>"The Jungle" (1906)
>"The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" (1901)
>"Nostromo" (1904)
>"Theory of Business Enterprise" (1904)
>"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904)
>"1984" (1949)
Just off the top of my head (+ Google)

All trash

Ebin

>the last 20 years

you obviously know what he's saying dipshit

None of those works really compare to the stuff that started coming out in 1920 and onwards.

Do they really not though?, I think is his point

The only notable fiction there is "The Jungle," and it's only notable because it led to US food safety laws.

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Good book.

i've heard gushing reviews from people who hate what NYT acclaims, but the one-sentence thing seems so gimmicky—just the kind of thing a modern frenchman would do to a good premise.

what is the prose style like?

The first volume of In Search of Lost Time was published in 1913.

>nothing groundbreaking wasreleased in 1900-1920

It's pretty good IMO, you get used to it. The most gimmicky part is a story within a story that the main character reads on the train. These chapters distracted from the rest of the book and lessened the effect of the run on sentence.

the reviews make it sound gimmicky,
at first its just weird trying to adjust your reading to his train of thought/stream of consciousness style cause it doesn't stop and it jumps around but that's what makes it unique

agree with this, it was like book inception haha too much

>"Pragmatism" (1907)
not fiction
>"The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" (1901)
not fiction
>"Theory of Business Enterprise" (1904)
not fiction
>"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904)
not fiction
>"1984" (1949)
not 1900-1920

how could you fuck up a list of fiction 1900-1920 so badly?

Go suck a dick, OP.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Sons and Lovers
Death in Venice
The Metamorphosis

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