What are some of the most ambitious debut novels of all time?
The Crying of Lot 49
>White people doing white people things
>written by an upper class white man
>muh narrative
>muh secrecy
>muh ongoing cult of personality
I'd say Ta-Nehisi Coates' "Between the World and Me" is the most ambitious book of this decade. It's not really a novel, but you take what you can get.
>>7332472
Ulysses.
V. isn't ambitious. it's bad.
The Bible
Swann's Way? Was that a debut novel?
my diary tbf
>>7332489
This meaning of this song still goes over my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0
>>7332553
Re-watching it, I think it's saying that icons project a personality that gangs of followers take on.
It's ironic, though, because it's a rock star performing this but I think the idea itself is well done.
I agree, OP. Every time I remember that Pynchon was only 26 my awe of it is refreshed.
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