Want to know why there hasn't been a 'landmark'

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>>9458203
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Action
Fuck off.

>>9458219
vomit

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>there hasn't been a 'landmark' work of fiction in ~20 years

>>9458227
name one

>>9458241
No matter what I say you will greentext and insist you are right. This is shitposting at it's least imaginative level.

>>9458241
>"Pragmatism" (1907)
>"The Jungle" (1906)
>"The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" (1901)
>"Nostromo" (1904)
>"Theory of Business Enterprise" (1904)
>"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904)
>"1984" (1949)
Just off the top of my head (+ Google)

>>9458262
All trash

>>9458285
Ebin

>>9458262
>the last 20 years

>>9458297
you obviously know what he's saying dipshit

>>9458262
None of those works really compare to the stuff that started coming out in 1920 and onwards.

>>9458302
>>9458301
Do they really not though?, I think is his point

>>9458310
The only notable fiction there is "The Jungle," and it's only notable because it led to US food safety laws.

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>>9458317

Good book.

>>9458317
>>9458326
i've heard gushing reviews from people who hate what NYT acclaims, but the one-sentence thing seems so gimmicky—just the kind of thing a modern frenchman would do to a good premise.

what is the prose style like?

The first volume of In Search of Lost Time was published in 1913.

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>>9458203
>nothing groundbreaking wasreleased in 1900-1920

>>9458388

It's pretty good IMO, you get used to it. The most gimmicky part is a story within a story that the main character reads on the train. These chapters distracted from the rest of the book and lessened the effect of the run on sentence.

>>9458388
the reviews make it sound gimmicky,
at first its just weird trying to adjust your reading to his train of thought/stream of consciousness style cause it doesn't stop and it jumps around but that's what makes it unique

>>9458445 agree with this, it was like book inception haha too much

>>9458262
>"Pragmatism" (1907)
not fiction
>"The Psychopathology of Everyday Life" (1901)
not fiction
>"Theory of Business Enterprise" (1904)
not fiction
>"The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" (1904)
not fiction
>"1984" (1949)
not 1900-1920

how could you fuck up a list of fiction 1900-1920 so badly?

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Go suck a dick, OP.

>>9458203
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Sons and Lovers
Death in Venice
The Metamorphosis

>>9458583
Crap