Which language has produced the best literature ?(other than English)

>>7482942
Romance languages

god tier languages:

french
german
english
russian
greek

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>(other than English)

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>>7482942

>>7483046
I was thinking French and this confirmed it

Well we have the classics all written in Latin and Greek. They are strong contenders.

>>7483046
>giving any authority to the Nobel prize

Pleb

French, German, English

Obviously.

Spanish. Latin-American fiction shits on anything Americans and Englels have produced.

German, French, Greek, Latin and Russian.

French mainly, then probably Russian and Spanish.
German for philosophy

Hindi and Sanskrit.

>>7483529
Nice meme

>>7483046
>Yiddish
>Hebrew
I'm surprised they're so low considering that the awards are rigged by the Kosher Nostra.

Best contemporary is Spanish

>>7482942

pyccиaн

cyппopт мacoлит

>>7483563
Def. true

>>7482953
>not including arabic on beauty alone

>>7483999
if you're gonna learn chickenscratch might as well not be a pleb about it and learn sanskrit

ENGLISH ONLY! USA!

Russian, German, French in no particular order

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>>7482942
Latin, German, Greek. French is hit-and-miss and I'll never understand this board's obsession with the Russians.

>>7483550

even if there are there just arn't enough quality jewish authors who have gained the semi-worldwide prominence usually needed to be nominated

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>>7483550
That's because G-d's chosen usually write in english, german or french these days goy

>>7484217
was der juden here put into the ovens and made like a golem?

persian (tons of amazing poets)
english (exclude most of the british writers who are usually very boring)

>>7484220
Not sure, may be he is a Turk, so I'm just do lurk.

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>>7484220
>was der juden here put into the ovens
OY VEY

IT'S ANNUDDAH SHOAH

DELET THIS

>>7483563
>>7483494
Examples?

>>7483046
Dutch 0(zero). I could have been born in a country with good literature.
JDIMSA

Italian, german and russian.
English kuks can't reach the level of those litz.

>>7483523
>not German for poetry as well
Pleb.

>>7484220
Der Jude = the Jew
Die Juden = the Jews
Wird den Jude heir im Ofen gesetzt?

>>7484231
You have to be kidding me, you degenerate. W.F. Hermans, Harry Mulisch, Claus, Gerard Reve, and much more. You're not worthy of being Dutch if you haven't read any works of these authors.

>>7484280
>German poetry
>as good as Italian or French poetry
Nonsense

>>7484296
You are wrong. Jude != Jew.
Jude - adept of Judaism, or some sect inside it.
Jew - is social class of people having Jude or Jewish ancestor. Jew can be in non-judaism.

Who is the Shakespeare of French? I don't mean playwrights specifically; I just mean who has the absolute best reputation as far as literature goes.

>>7484314
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re

>>7484314
Corneille would be the most appropriate person to choose.
Mastering both tragedy and comedy, having a very particular style and reestablishing theater as an important literary genre

>I just mean who has the absolute best reputation as far as literature goes
There's hardly a "best", each period has its geniuses, and they are all very different from each other

>>7484314
this >>7484320

French is commonly called "la langue de Molière".

>>7484314
It's impossible to pick a single writer to represent French literature. Like this guy >>7484345
said we call our language the language of Molière but it doesn't mean much really, as influential as he was there isn't a huge gap between him and the rest of French lit, even in his era you could argue that Racine and Corneille are better, and then you have to add to the mix other giants like Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud who were all extremely influential in their own way.

>>7484361
Yeah but the point is he's still an icon of the French language, just like Shakespeare is for English.
You could say the exact same thing you wrote in your post for every other language.

>>7483529
This

>>7482942
Italian

No mention of Classical Chinese? /lit/ pls

>>7484384
Not really, see Cervantes and Goethe. They just have no match in their respectivo languages

>>7484545
Says you.

>>7484549
Well, yeah. Are you going to offer a point or your own?

>>7482942
>(other than English)
Why are anglos so deluded?

>>7484671
muh shakespeare

It goes like this:
Greek > Italian > French = German = English > Spanish > Russian > Portuguese > Dutch

>>7484715
>German so high

Starting to like German lit more and more.
>Kafka
>Musil
>Walser
>Zweig
>Sebald
>Broch
>Boll
...

>>7484296
You're acting like I care.