>american "literature"

>>78172679
Gravity's Rainbow?

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>>78172679

>>78172679
Laugh all you like, but this is one of the most brilliant sequences in the greatest English language novel of the postwar era

>>78173028
Explain why

Wait, that's ACTUALLY from Gravity's Rainbow? Remind me to never bother reading Pynchon

>>78173082
Shit and sewage in Gravity's Rainbow are the material residue of mass psychic trauma from World War One. In the shellholes of Verdun, shit, corpses and the pollen of deposited toxic gas mingled with water. Supply lines truncated and warped by intense artillery barrages could not furnish those at the front enough water. Often, soldiers lived among the fetid pools of stagnant filth, drinking their fill from them to survive. The Brigadier exhibits the fetishization of the death object, shit, and the abject humiliation, the fragmentation of man's pride and person before the mechanized instruments of death: this neurosis is a microcosm of the great war's effect on the collective western soul.

The last time an Italian wrote an important novel, it was an Italian-American.

>>78172679
Wtf is this filth?

>>78173667
that's the better excuse ever made up to cover a scat fetish
bravò

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itt plebs who don't understand the real literature :^)

>>78177730
Stop being cocky. We all know your literature is superior to everyone else here.

>>78172679
>The American mind.png

>>78177840
but i posted a pic of the author of gravity rainbow, it's gravity rainbow what i called the real literature

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

>>78172679
Can't pynch the pynchon

>>78178759
looking at his pic, I thought you were being sarcastic
>those teeth

>>78173028
not as brilliant as your own post here >>78173667
bravo nolan

>>78180071
pynchon is a meme partially because of his pics, there are very few of them because he is very reclusive and apparently he never was photogenic

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>>78180071
He needs them to trim his pot plants

>>78173667
doubt

>>78177330
Ma bravo ha un accento sul 'o'???

>>78184830
the guy does it because it symbolizes to him the battlefields of the ww1 and the woman symbolizes to him the image of a personification of death he thinks he once saw

so basically he is a vet with ptsd

also it's beautifully written

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>he doesnt even post the GOOD american literature
awful thread

>>78172679
>I have never read dune