What are some of the most ambitious debut novels of all time?

The Crying of Lot 49

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>White people doing white people things
>written by an upper class white man
>muh narrative
>muh secrecy
>muh ongoing cult of personality

I'd say Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me" is the most ambitious book of this decade. It's not really a novel, but you take what you can get.

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Ulysses.

V. isn't ambitious. it's bad.

The Bible

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The meme is strong today

Swann's Way? Was that a debut novel?

my diary tbf

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This meaning of this song still goes over my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

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Re-watching it, I think it's saying that icons project a personality that gangs of followers take on.

It's ironic, though, because it's a rock star performing this but I think the idea itself is well done.

I agree, OP. Every time I remember that Pynchon was only 26 my awe of it is refreshed.

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