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

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>>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