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Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:36:53 2016 No.8288526 [Reply] [Original]

In your opinion, what is the Great American Novel?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:37:38 2016 No.8288530 >>8288526 Moby Dick

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:38:02 2016 No.8288532 >>8288526 My Ass

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:39:05 2016 No.8288533 >>8288530 One post in and already over

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:40:07 2016 No.8288536 Moby Dick isn't American enough.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:44:52 2016 No.8288548 >>8288536 Agreed. America isn't really a seafaring nation.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:53:11 2016 No.8288570 mi diario, si te digo la verdad

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:53:50 2016 No.8288575 >>8288548 I'm not sure what novel could reflect the whole of the American experience, though. It's still the high-water mark of literary achievement, IMO.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:54:14 2016 No.8288578 >>8288526 mi diario, si te digo la verdad

Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:56:43 2016 No.8288583
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>>8288526
>>8288536
>>8288548

>tfw you are white and just want to explore/read/talk about whiteness and white culture but you are from America and your country's entire ethos is perceived to be multiculturalism and the nig experience.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 09:57:55 2016 No.8288587 >>8288548 t. flyover

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:01:23 2016 No.8288597 >>8288583 if you dont think slavery and its legacy is central to american exceptionalism then youre pretty stupid imo

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:20:46 2016 No.8288651 What's the Great European Novel?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:25:56 2016 No.8288677 >>8288583 Stop pulling shit out of your ass and making excuses for not even having actually tried. One of the 2015 pulitzer winner of a category was a white American writing about the realities of WW2 from a completely European perspective.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:28:32 2016 No.8288687 >>8288583 The movie "the Perfect Storm" encapsulated the life of white fishermen in New England pretty well; there's plenty of people out there interested in that kinda stuff, and there's no privilege nonsense in earning a living. go for it, boyo

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:39:16 2016 No.8288717 >>8288583 You are legitimately spooked.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:46:54 2016 No.8288743 East of Eden

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:51:24 2016 No.8288758 Great Gatsby

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:57:22 2016 No.8288784 One of the following: Moby-Dick Absalom, Absalom! Mason & Dixon Libra Honourable mention Blood Meridian Invisible Man Huck Finn All the King's Men

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 10:58:46 2016 No.8288787 >>8288526 On the road

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 17 11:22:49 2016 No.8288843 David Foster Wallace

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