[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 8 KB, 183x275, images.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10653398 No.10653398 [Reply] [Original]

India, Germany, Canada, and the United States.

What do these nations have in common?

Many things perhaps. But they are specifically united by the fact that they will never, ever produce a worthwhile piece of literature.

>> No.10653456

>he hasn't read Kalidas, Kabir or Mirabai

>> No.10653459

>>10653456
Nope, and I never will.

>> No.10653468

>>10653398
>Canada

Do you even Life of Pi?

>> No.10653469

>>10653468
No.

>> No.10653490

>>10653398
Kafka is from Germany and so is Goethe; Salinger, Pynchon and Melville are from the US

>> No.10653508

>>10653398
Is this a joke?
>yfw you never read Broch or Musil or the Vedas or Eliot/Wallace/Crane/thatonejewishkid

>> No.10653598

>>10653490
>>10653508
All worthless.

>> No.10653715

>>10653598
Seconded.

>> No.10653720

Before anyone takes your worthless opinion even somewhat seriously, you're gonna have to provide some sort of explanation.

>> No.10653800

The United States has a pretty good library of literature for being only two centuries old.

>> No.10654171

>>10653508
Stop listing Austrian writers as German

>> No.10654234

>>10654171
I agree. There is too little praise for the Austrian language and those who write in it.

>> No.10654853

good thread

>> No.10654921
File: 6 KB, 211x239, CED854B1-E5A5-4A45-8994-748FD474603E.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
10654921

John Steinbeck and Mark Twain are from America you pseudo

>> No.10654959

>>10654234
Austrian isn’t even its own dialect, it’s just a flavour of Bavarian