What's the greatest piece of literature your country has

>>73761840
The most important piece of literature is Max Havelaar by Multatuli.
It's what partially started the decolonisation of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Havelaar

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Unironically this

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Grande Sertão: Veredas - Guimarães Rosa

that's my opinion tho
there're who consider Dom Casmurro OR Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma
anyways

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>>73761840
>>73762052

Good opinions, here's mine.

I will never stop loving Dune.

>>73762345
I get bored after the coup

>>73761840
me at the top holding onto the boat

>>73761954
It's basically about a guy who becomes a Dutch ruler in Indonesia. And tries to treat the people under him more fairly. Which turns out to be impossible due to widespread corruption and people being forced to act in their own self interest to save their own skin.

>>73762425
Hm, sounds like it could easily be a Joseph Conrad novel

Inb4 some German posts Mein Kampf

>>73761840
harry potter

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>>73762503
I'd guess the general consensus would be a work of philosophy, like thus spoke Zarathustra or The Communist manifesto. Or Faust.

Also not saying it's the greatest American novel, but my favorite horror is IT.

>>73762503
What's the non meme answer?

>>73762768
Meant for
>>73762560

What's the greatest literature of the Finns?

>>73762768
Faust

>>73762234

Yeap... Agreed. I'd post that as well.

>>73762768
It's gotta be Faust for the germs

A book that's currently very popular is Het huis van de moskee by Kader Abdolah. Or in English The House of the Mosque.

It's about the revolution in Iran. How it came to be what it is today. It's a very /int/ book.

>>73761840
The infamous c*ckold copypasta

>>73762768
>my favourite horror story is the one where an alien disguises itself as a clown to kill people because reasons and is temporarily defeated by a group of children shooting silver at it with a slingshot, which requires the only girl of the group to have sex with all of the boys because reasons
>also, giant turtle that created the universe and hates the clown

>>73762935
Väinö Linna's works are the best imo. Unknown soldier is a classic war novel on par with All Quiet on the Western Front

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this is definitely the GOAT Argentine writer

>>73764687
The gangbang is out there, but other than that it's a pretty great story tbqh.

>>73764846
I enjoyed this book about your cunt desu

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Ah fug, forgot to attach the pic

Sinuhe the Egyptian is the most intl. known good finnish book I guess

i like Linna's work like Unknown Soldier and Under the North Star

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>>73761840
This is a mexican masterpiece

divine comedy by dante alighieri
The make us study that for five years in high school. Nevermind that it is written in old tuscan dialect so it's even more difficult

>>73761840
The divine comedy

>>73772440
do you guys have to study ancient roman literature too?

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>>73772454
>>73772440
>not The Aeneid
>not The Metamorphoses

>>73772589
Yeah we study latin and ancient greek and we have to translate. It's hell

>>73772597
>romans
>italians

Btw the divine comedy is WITHOUT ANY DOUBT the more influential and studied piece of italian literature, there are dantists societies all over the world

>>73764846
Apparantly a lot is lost in translation. While the English translation does its best to stay loyal to the dialects it obviously infinitely better in Finnish.

>>73772738
americans only know about inferno

>>73772699
I wish we had to study at least latin as well, not being able to "go to the sources and see it for yourself" made studying humanities kinda boring, especially with our low quality portuguese translations

>>73772824
Cause paradiso is boring af

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probably this.

>>73762935
the kalevala

>>73764972
this one knows whats talking about

>>73772880
i don't know i think latin is a very boring language, i've never liked it. it's also very difficult

>>73773034
latin difficult? Then you have never studied greek

>>73773034
>native speaker of a Romance language finds Latin very difficult

for shame, Luigi!

>tfw you have only one novel anyone's ever heard of
...

>>73773391
Don Quixote?

>>73773391
Donnie Cayote?

nobody would know about it anyway

>>73773632
everyone knows about sophie's world tho

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>>73773632
this Norwegian guy is pretty popular in America

>>73773684
i-i was actually thinking about heimskringla but okay

>>73773391
Don Quijote?

I don't think we have one.

>>73773756
"my struggle"
sounds familiar..

>>73774127
John Quickoats

Pippi Långstrump probably has the largest international readership.

Fredmans sånger and Fredmans epistlar by Bellman have probably had more impact on Swedish literary culture than any works before or after it.

>>73773632
Would the Sagas count?

>>73764846
Would you count The metamorphosis or The Trial?

I mean Kafka was Czech, but he wrote in German and was a jew.