Honestly - how can Americans even compete?

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>>8701144

>>8701171
Rekt
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They can't, and they don't try to, you fucking sperg.

>>8701171
>The least influential classic book ever.

Russian writers are fucking awful.

>>8701171
One fell swoop, fpbp, well done

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>>8701144
>this is the best Rossiya has to offer

Well you tried

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>>8701144

>this is the best Russia has to offer

Honestly - how can Russians even compete?

>>8701226
There's not much to build off of the best novel ever written pseud

>>8701144
>American literature
Transcendental, uplifting while plunging through the depths of human experience, see Melville, Whitman, James and Faulkner
>Russian "literature"
Life sucks, but work for Tsar anyway because God says so.

>>8701537
Alternate:
God sucks, but you're a crybaby if you talk about it.

>>8701144
Why do Americans have such huge boner for anything Russian?

>>8701686
Maybe they serve as a foil to America

>>8701537
Honestly

Russian lit is good for someone depressed, American lit is good for more educated normies who are passionate about life

>>8701144
Daily reminder that all american greatest writers are either jewish or irish.

>>8701144
With goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior.

>>8701723
>implying russian lit readers are less educated than american lit readers

>>8702242
would you consider Philip Roth to be the best american writer or top5?

>>8702242
Wrong. DeLillo is Italian

>>8701197
Kek underrated post

>>8701537
>Whitman
He was gay xd
Also heisenberg xd

>>8701144
By becoming insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity - amd then inventing surrealism

>le russian literature is good meme

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How can involuntary egoists even compete?