In your opinion, what is the Great American Novel?
>>8288526
Moby Dick
>>8288526
My Ass
>>8288530
One post in and already over
Moby Dick isn't American enough.
>>8288536
Agreed. America isn't really a seafaring nation.
>>8288548
I'm not sure what novel could reflect the whole of the American experience, though. It's still the high-water mark of literary achievement, IMO.
>>8288526
mi diario, si te digo la verdad
>>8288526
>>8288536
>>8288548
>tfw you are white and just want to explore/read/talk about whiteness and white culture but you are from America and your country's entire ethos is perceived to be multiculturalism and the nig experience.
>>8288548
t. flyover
>>8288583
if you dont think slavery and its legacy is central to american exceptionalism then youre pretty stupid imo
What's the Great European Novel?
>>8288583
Stop pulling shit out of your ass and making excuses for not even having actually tried.
One of the 2015 pulitzer winner of a category was a white American writing about the realities of WW2 from a completely European perspective.
>>8288583
The movie "the Perfect Storm" encapsulated the life of white fishermen in New England pretty well; there's plenty of people out there interested in that kinda stuff, and there's no privilege nonsense in earning a living. go for it, boyo
>>8288583
You are legitimately spooked.
East of Eden
Great Gatsby
One of the following:
Moby-Dick
Absalom, Absalom!
Mason & Dixon
Libra
Honourable mention
Blood Meridian
Invisible Man
Huck Finn
All the King's Men
>>8288526
On the road
David Foster Wallace
