Name a country that produced a better of body of work in

>>9213378
As regards fiction, you're 100% right. But for poetry and philosophy I'd look somewhere else to be honest

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>20 stars

>>9213386
>20th cent philosophy
lol, top meme

>>9213378
You can't.

Russia, France, England. American literature is pretty basic.

>>9213378
>bigger body of work
None.
>better body of work
>>9213409
Murifats always go for quantity of over quality.

>>9213409
russia and england beat united states in the 19th century for sure, but the 20th? what authors are you thinking of? solzhenitsyn, vasily grossman, bulgakov...? then england it's even tougher, since joyce is irish... dh lawrence? orwell and huxley?

france, proust is major, but then what else is in the same realm?

The answer to this question is Ireland.

>>9213449
Pasternak, bulgakov, nabokov, platonov, Kharms, sholokov, akhmatov, bryusov

>>9213449
>dh lawrence? orwell and huxley?

Kek Brits are so shit tier

>>9213462
Ireland is basically America

>>9213378
20th century English poetry is better than all 20th century American literature (assuming you classify Eliot, pound and H.D. as English)

>>9213470
nabokov's an american writer

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>>9213470
>akhmatov

>>9213483
eliot and pound are american

>>9213484
He was a Russian writer first (his Russian novels and stories).
His English books are American.
So I guess in this comparison nabokov is a wash.

>>9213483
>assuming you classify Eliot, pound as English

Lmao this desperation

>>9213470
wasnt sholokov a plagiarist?

>>9213487
If they are American then
>>9213484 nabokov is Russian.

>>9213489
yeah, and his defining works are the english ones

>>9213492
ah, youve got me... uhh fine, nabokov is russian

>>9213496
Then you also agree that Eliot, pound and H.D. are English poets?

>>9213378
France

Although William Burroughs might make America the best, hard to say.

>>9213492
Writing in a completely different language isn't the same as LARPing

>>9213506
lmao

>>9213482
If you're retarded, sure.

>>9213470
Russian literature is such a meme, are half of them even real people?

>>9213506
At the very least Eliot's four quartets (1935-42) are British since he became a citizen in 1927. He was also part of the Church of England.

>>9213519
Again that's just being an edgy LARPer, where you're raised is what defines you

>>9213517
i looked up one of them, and it wasnt real lmao

>>9213491
Nah, he was accused of plagiarism but there was no proof and the style in quite flows the Don (the book supposedly plagiarized) is very similar to his previous writing.
Solzhenitsyn accused him but he was probably just butthurt over sholokov's scathing review of one day in the life of Ivan denisovich.

If we're going of Nobel Literature prizes, then France. The Answer is France.

>>9213537
>the Bob Dylan award

>>9213486
>akhmatov
Akhmatova, my bad

>>9213533
oh

>>9213542
excluding the 21st century, France still has most.

>>9213378
By what metric?

>>9213544
oh thats the one i looked up and didnt get anything lol

>>9213562
We're talking about 20th century writers, a lot of them went to 19th century authors.
Also you best not be counting Beckett as French

>>9213387
One for each state that has produced anything of merit.

>>9213567
Every metric

>>9213689
>metric
Obviously not American then

>>9213378
ireland?
>heaney,
>joyce (perhaps the greatest prose writer of all time)
>flann o'brien
>beckett
>yeats (perhaps the greatest poet of all time)
>bernard shaw (runnerup for greatest dramatist of all time)
>sean o'casey

>>9213695
>joyce (perhaps the greatest prose writer of all time)
>yeats (perhaps the greatest poet of all time)
Anglos are cute in their naive narcissism.

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>>921369
>yeats (perhaps the greatest poet of all time)

>>9213695
>>yeats (perhaps the greatest poet of all time)

>>9213711
>>9213723
>>9213728
yeats doesn't really have a rival imo. eliot? rilke? whitman? dickinson? keats and the romantics? he hit the golden mean between tradition and experiment whereas guys like cummings, pound, eliot went too far. modern and ancient at the same time. i would say that the epic poets like homer, dante, vergil, etc. are in a distinct category and thus not comparable.

if not yeats, who?

>>9213711
false modesty is worse than pretension, but being the greatest and being aware of it is the ideal. joyce was the greatest and he knew it; this is not being pretentious or overly proud, but just being aware of the talents one has. do you say sorry when people spill drinks on you?

>>9213758
>eliot went too far.
Wrong

>>9213758
Yeats is entirely derivative of the French Late symbolists. Your high school tier education is showing

>>9213769
yeah, so much turf cutting in those french symbolists. i'm not anon, but to be fair to yeats, he crossed that class divide far better than the symbolists.

>>9213762
>do you say sorry when people spill drinks on you?
Yes
t. Canadian

>>9214010
I don't know why you think that's either relevant or true

>>9214019
really man? you can't see why the guy who founded the abbey theatre and staged the celtic revival might have different ways, means and motivation to the french late symbolists? do you just like saying the word symbolist even though it's entirely irrelevant? do you know what derivative is to accuse yeats of it? you said some retarded shit for even high school while calling anon's education high school tier. i think you don't know why i'd say that because you don't know shit.

>>9213762
>deliberately pretending to be retarded
Clearly the implication was that Joyce isn't the greatest novelist of all time, which is quite obvious to everyone who isn't a delusional monolingual anglo prone to autofellation. Come back to discuss literature when you've grown out of jerking it to modernism and style over substance, bubbale.

>>9213711
>irish
>anglo

>>9214040
who is the greatest novelist of all time, friend? i eagerly await your sparkling revelation :)

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>>9214494

>>9214507
i concede. joyce is a trashy bogtrotting cyclops to me now

>>9214494
Leo Tolstoy.

>>9213695
>bernard shaw (runnerup for greatest dramatist of all time)
Really?

>>9214543
>le orthodox wizard

>>9214560
That's Dostoevsky m8

>>9213477
orwell >> lost generation and beat generation

>>9215728
The beats sure

>>9213409
lmao no some of the most loved /lit/ meme books are 20th century American /lit/:Stoner, all of Pynchon, Infinite Jest. Also as far as non meme authors go America had plenty of great authors like Hemingway, Fittzgerald, Faulkner and a lot more from the lost generation. I really hate this meme that America is bad at literature, for how new of a country the US is we have had a pretty large amount of authors

>>9215889
Shit forgot to add Gaddis and Steinbeck

>>9213378
Literally every other country, you'd prob find relative higher quality work in Tanzania or Uruguay, and most certainly in the industrialized Europe and Asia.