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ITT: Greatest Novels of the 20th Century
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Hey /lit/ what are the greatest novels of the 20th century?
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Mine but it's not out yet
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They are all in that image
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>>7672714
but anon you're too late, it's the 21st century
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Infinite Jest
everything else was tied for last
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>>7672713
Ulysses, In Search of Lost Time, The Trial, Finnegans Wake, The Recognitions, The Lime Twig, Women and Men, and The Tunnel are some of the more obvious choices; but, of course, there are hundreds of novels--many of them by unheard of authors like Orlovitz and Rios--that could fall under the same classification.
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The Recognitions because it completely predicts postmodern theory while remaining a modernist work

The Magic Mountain rolls all the best elements of all of the 20th century's bildungsroman into one

20th century was better for poetry, desu
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Ulysses

In Search of Lost Time

Lolita

Gravity's Rainbow

Bloom Meridian
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>>7672752
>20th century was better for poetry, desu
You forget: slam poetry started in the 20th century.
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>>7672718
How can people have such shite taste?
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>>7672713
Wow, can Scientologists just rig polls like that?
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>>7673357
It's the same reason why so much Rand is on there.
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