Is American literature popular in Europe?

>>74914141
Only written before 1930

>>74914141
I like quite a few American writers, can't speak for the Continent though

heard from an american poster that modern western literature has been in a dump of the 90s and the 00s , and it seemed complete right.

>pynchon faggot

his works might be remarkable, but his complicated shit has made a bunch of critics and fans pretentious.

>>74914141
i love john green

>>74914141

>American"""""""""""""""literature""""""""""""""""""
yes, I have a huge colection of spiderman, starts in 1969.

The Crying of Lot 49 was alright

But I'm not reading WWII-themed LOTR for aerospace engineers until I retire

>>74914141
Just read the poop-eating part. Harrowing stuff, desu.

>>74914141
I honestly haven't heard of Lovecraft before coming to 4chan, despite him apparently being immensely popular around the globe.

I thought Orwell and the likes were American, but apparently they were British.
I don't think I know any American writer besides Lovecraft 2bh

Stephen King and GRR Martin

Do Europeans know Mark Twain?

>>74918050
Most will have heard of him unless they're complete mongs, yeah

>>74918050
very much so

I had a Tom Sawyer picture book in Slovene as a kid

>>74914141
2bh I love American literature. Pynchon, Faulkner, T.S. Eliot (fuck you he was a yank), Gaddis, McCarthy, Wallace, Melville: the list could go on.

>>74914141
A few american classics are quite well-known here: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, but that's about it.

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Do euros know of A Confederacy of Dunces?

Do Europeans know of Infinite Jest?

I like faulkner's writing. He's probably one of my favourites

>>74914141
Here in Sweden we have a penchant for the cucksmut your nation is the number one producer of.

>>74914141


pretty much Faulkner and Hemingway were the last American writers people cared about outside the USA, unless you consider Nabokov American too.
Bonfire of Vanities was a hit in the 80s too.


the writers of the XIX century are all very well known, Twain, Walt Whitman, Poe etc
But writers like Pynchon are nowhere near as popular as in /lit/

>>74914141
Popular as in "it sells well"?

Well, thrillers/horror authors like Tom Clancy, Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, John Grisham, Michael Crichton, etc... have good sells, but I doubt anybody consider them as good.

>>74920107
>infinite jest

no lol

>>74920952
if you like Whiltman, you might really like the series of commercials Levi's did

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>>74914141
Does Don Rosa count?

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>>74914141

>>74923015
effay af

>>74921655
Why did Europeans love Donald so much? Genuinely curious

>>74918610
>T.S. Eliot (fuck you he was a yank)
Not really 2bh. Nabokov counts as ours though

>>74920952
>Pynchon are nowhere near as popular as in /lit/
holy fuck this is hilarious
i only imagine pynchon has been consumed as edgy fedora 2deep4u stuff and legitimately become such trash like i said. its just like reading french post modern critiques which are fucking out of date in all seriousness today. /lit/ seems to fucking suck

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>>74923653
pic very related

>>74923055
Donald is much cooler than Mickey. Mickey is too perfect and posh. But I personally prefer Scrooge over Donald

>>74923653
Don't hate on Pynchon

>>74920034
They have the original, it's called The history of the valorous and wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.
Confederacy of Dunces is the funniest book ever written though

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>>74928055
Those are the two funniest books ever written desu