Has there been any great British/English novel since the

>>10015380
Yes. I could name them, but I won't. Just because wittle baby boy wants to be sponnfed by mommy doesn't mean he will be

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>>10015384

You just can't think of any.

>>10015384

Jokes aside though and not memeing I really am trying to find some good 60's/70's/80's English lit.

>>10015384
>I could name them
No you couldn't.

Finnegans Wake

>>10015380
Cloud Atlas

>>10015380
A Clockwork Orange
Atonement
Crash
Harry Potter
His Dark Materials
Lucky Jim
Midnight’s Children
Old Filth
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Remains of the Day
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Sense of an Ending
Wolf Hall

etc. etc.

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Joseph Gobbels Ballard

>>10017391
Chuckled internally.

>>10017391
What's his best book?

>>10015380
All the good potential British writers emigrated to America. All that's let's are the talentless and unimaginative droves

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>>10017197
Let's start with the obvious.
>Harry Potter
WEW lad

>>10017529
They may be shit, but they're 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, and 10 of the all-time best sellers.

>>10016174
Pynchon, DeLillo, Dick, Calvino, Burroughs, Barth, Gaddis, Thomas Bernhard, Barthelme, the late Nabokov, McCarthy, David Memers Wallace, Umberto Eco, John Fowles, Vonnegut, Paul Auster, Vollmann, Marquez, Roth, Saul Bellow and Alan fucking Moore have already failed for you? I didn't even mention less famous stuff. Do some research before saying shit.
I regret to have spent my time spoonfeeding you some good stuff to read. Go fuck yourself, ya twat

"Lanark" by Alasdair Gray, of course.

>>10017582
Tell me how many records Katy Perry has sold next, anon-sama

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>>10017197
This.

>>10017601
>Calvino
>Marquez
>Eco
>English literature
American education

>>10017637
Honestly, most pop musicians are a lot more talented than people give them credit for. I'm not saying they produce good music, that's a matter of taste, but if mass appeal was so easy it wouldn't be so competitive. This applies to any medium.

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>>10015380
I N F I N I T E
J E S T

>>10017601
>Calvino
>Umberto Eco
>Marquez
So THIS is the power of American education.... woah...

>>10017637
Bad argument considering Walter Scott = JK Rowling for quality and relative sales pleb

>>10017197
You can add 3 more ishiguro novels on there

>>10017601
>>10017858
>>10017685
Shit, I didn't read the whole question. I'm not even American, btw. I'm sorry, that was kind of a dickhead move, I'm sorry. I think I had some good points on that list, however, even among american authors.
Also you didn't notice Thomas Barnhars is austrian. Plebs.