The 19th century was the greatest ever era for literature: >Hegel

>>8769955
Mentions "paid by the word" Dickens, but not George "God-Tier" Eliot.
shame

>talkin' bout 19th century lit
>doesn't list one french author

wtf r u doin dude

>>8769955
>Hegel
>lit

>>8769969
this. nobody on /lit/ every mentions huysmans who's probably the best novel writer who ever lived

>>8769979
La-bas was shit

>>8770043
youre shit m9

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>>8769955

Is there a single 20th/21st author of worth?

>>8770061
Tao Lin

>>8770095
Go to bed Tao

>>8770061
George Orwell is pretty based

>>8769955
Idk the 1920's were a pretty solid decade.

>>8769955
Replace one or both of the bottom two for Emily "Big" Dickinson

Also never read Pushkin. And agree somewhat about Dickens and the pay by the word meme, but He did a lot for commercializing books.

>>8770426
Never.

>>8769959
>>8769969
>>8769974
>>8770821

Sure, you may disagree with some names on my list. But do you refute my claim that the 19th century was the best era for literature?

>>8770888
20th Century da best

>>8770904
Prove it, fag

>>8770888
You are mingling literature and philosophy together

21st century is the best. We are living among the best authors of all time right now, such as Tao Lin, Alan Moore, Patrick Rothfuss, Jonathan Franzen, Savannah Brown, Zadie Smith and John Green.

>>8770907
Joyce
Woolf
Faulkner
Pound
Eliot
H.D.
Plath
ee
Ashbery
Williams (Both of them)
Lowry
Penn Warren

>>8770933
Alan Moore is 20th century

In a decade we can talk about whether Jerusalem is as good as Watchmen, V, or From Hell

>>8771042
It's better, on account of being an actual book

>>8771131
>Le elitism face

>>8769955
>Plato
>Buddha
>Plotinus
>Cicero
>Aristotle
>Montaigne
>Plutarch
>Willy Shakes
&ct


19th c. confirmed degenerate artistic wasteland

>>8771042
You can already talk about that. From Hell is a great work of creative history and a tome. Haven't finished Jerusalem but I already prefer V - Jerusalem is great but it is a try-hard work.

>>8770061
Flannery O'conner
Borges
Meme Wolfe

That's it