Was it even a competition?
Seriously, name me one absolute essential piece of American lit I should read that will live up to the Russians. Go ahead, i'm waiting.
There is nothing that comes close to the phenomenal and incredibly profound works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
>>8737058
Nabokov was born in dubs and died in dubs.
Wow.
These men, in my Rodina, they are nothing.
>>8737058
Moby Dick, Blood Meridian and Gravity's Rainbow are better than all Tolstoy and most Dosto btw
>>8737058
Catcher in the rye, you pleb
>>8737061
>J.
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Moby Dick is pretty much the one. Nothing American I know of can compete with it.
That being said you're pretty obviously some stupid frogposter that doesn't read and will claim it's shit because le ebin troll.
>>8737066
>Blood Meridian
opinion discarded
>>8737058
gaddis, of course. The Recognitions.
>>8737058
Oh good, country vs country threads are starting to invade /lit/
>>8737075
>slavish submission to shitposting
opinion discarded
>>8737097
Blood Meridian is not even close to being as good as Tolstoy and you know it.
>>8737069
Going by place of death Switzerland has to be the most patrician place on earth, desu. I will die there as well.
>>8737143
Found the pseud
>>8737109
Tolstoy is "Beautiful: well-formed and aesthetically pleasing."
Blood Meridian is "Sublime: has the power to compel and destroy us."
I bet you also dislike Shelley and Melville, isn't that right you slutty little boy