america vs rest of world 1920-1939 literary rumble

[Frozzy]

Hitler had a lot of success with his book... I think that should tip the balance.

[Agathon]

Apart from the Jew stuff, Mein Kampf must be the most boring book ever written.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Agathon
Apart from the Jew stuff, the Bible must be the most boring book ever written.

[lord of the mark]

apart from the Jew stuff, Herzl's "The Jewish State" must be the most boring book ever written.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


Yes.


I think if Pound and Elliot are counted as Americans (and what else would we count Pound as? - Italian?) one could make a good case for America winning.

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Oh, dream on.

[molly bloom]

To amplify yesterday's post:

the 'No Brit Lit' list:

S. Y. Agnon

Jean Anouilh

Hans/Jean Arp

Isak Dinesen

Henri Barbusse

Albert Camus

Raymond Queneau

Stefan Zweig

Herman Hesse

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Erich Maria Remarque

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Marcel Pagnol

Knut Hamsun

Bertolt Brecht

Luigi Pirandello

Ivo Andric

Cora Sandel

Sigrid Undset

Max Brod

Karel Capek

Louis Ferdinand Celine

Paul Valery

Alfred Doblin

Leon Feuchtwanger

Tristan Tzara

Hugo Ball

Michel De Ghelderode

Marinetti

Nathalie Sarraute

Seferis

Ferenc Molnar

Walter Benjamin

Alberto Moravia

Jean Giraudoux

Henri De Motherlant

Colette

Dino Buzzati

Ugo Betti

Boris Pasternak

Robert Desnos

Nikos Kazantzakis

Halldor Laxness

Francois Mauriac

Ernst Jungr

Max Jacob

Heinrich Mann

Andre Malraux

[Kuciwalker]

I think by now I've never heard of literally 99% of the people mentioned in this thread, maybe more

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I think by now I've never heard of literally 99% of the people mentioned in this thread, maybe more

What a vista of reading opportunities opens up in front of you.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
I think by now I've never heard of literally 99% of the people mentioned in this thread, maybe more

Reading's hard.

[SpencerH]

The only reason the Euro's have so many great literary writers is cos alcoholism and whining about how tough life is are much more common there (and thats the basis for defining literature).