What novel to do you think of as the 'national epic'

>>9264192
Leaves of Grass

Zadie Smith's White Teeth

Countries are for idiots, fuck all countries.

>national epic
>novel
lmao, culturelet countries are so cute

Voss

As I Lay Dying

Pedro Páramo

>>9264208
Good choice anon.

Have you read 'Fredy Neptune' by Les Murray? Apparently that's the closet thing Aus has to an Epic.

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Monadnoc by Emerson

Toward the Last Spike, by EJ Pratt.

>>9265015
I have not. I will check it out

Beautiful Losers

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Ulysses obviously.

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>>9265517
Oh, whoops. Getting my /int/ bait mixed up with actual flags.

Mein Kampf

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We are a simple people

Moby Dick

>>9265526
Ausfag here

Yeah this guy pretty much right. Aus/lit/ never even reached adolescence.

Trainspotting

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It's either the Emigrants series, or the collective works of Astrid Lindgren.

Perhaps Selma Lagerlöf's works too, she's received a Nobel prize and everything.

It's kind of hard to think of one single national epic.

>>9264192
If it can only be one book, then Witi Ihimaera' 'The Whale Rider' but if it can involve more than one book then Maurice Shadbolt's New Zealand Wars Trilogy (Season of the Jew , Monday's Warriors , The House of Strife)

Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade

>>9264195
>novel
>Leaves of Grass

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Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Trilogy

There isn't one that fits with all the transformations Germany has gone through

Peer Gynt, personally, but most people would probably go with the Eddas.

The Martín Fierro. (Its a collection of poems about a rural landworker sent to war. He deserts and tries to return to his home, but discovers that his house, farm, and family are gone and then, he becomes and outlaw)

>>9264192
We don't have one, thank God.
>tfw eternal Anglo
It is a good feel.

Oh, and because I'm an eternal something else as well, I'll also claim the Bible.

>>9265514
Not a leaf but great choice anon.

I guess the rough translation would be The Hatchet. It's pretty good.

>>9265015
Was gonna say for the the term of his natural life by clarke

>>9265896
Once were Warriors is real great, both book and film.

>>9266129
I agree, but I'm not sure I'd consider it a 'national epic' of NZ. To be honest even the examples aren't that strong, it's not like Maori mythology has been compiled into a defining work of literature or anything.

The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch

>>9266133
That's a damned shame those people look really interesting and proud you'd think they had someone write about them.

T. Played rugby in my youth for 6 years

>>9266137
You might like 'Foreskin's Lament' by Greg McGee, it's a play based around the Springbok Tour, though it tends to deal with hyper-masculinity in NZ Culture, good read regardless

>>9266156
Thanks lad I'm genuinely curious.