>Most nations are lucky if they can produce even one great novel. >China has four

>Most nations are lucky if they can produce even one great novel
>China has four
How does can any other country compete? England only has Middlemarch, America only has Moby Dick, Spain only has Don Quixote, Germany and France and Italy have nothing.

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >france has nothing
    >doesn't know about Gargantua and Pantagruel

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I've read it. I find it too disjointed, starting from Book 3, to be on par with Don Quixote and the likes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        What about Les Miserables?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The digression about the Parisian Sewers is fitting because the novel is shit.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            filtered

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      't know about Gargantua and Pantagruel
      Never heard about them.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Is the greatest literature of France that fox Reynart the rooster Chaunticlere and that wolf Isengrim. Actually those names do not sound that French hmmm

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Italy has nothing
    >the first thing you see when you open IQfy is a picture of Dante's Paradise

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      OP said novel, so Dante doesn't really count. But yes, as a work of literature, The Divine Comedy is definitely one of the best

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    China is fricking old compared to those other countries. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel#Notable_candidates check these candidates for other "great American novels" if you're actually being serious.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe not 4, but America has the meme trilogy:
    >Confederacy of Dunces
    >Gravity's rainbow
    >Infinite Jest
    3 is almost as good as 4, and we've had a lot less time to write books than China.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >spain have only Don Quixote.

    Yeah Pio Baroja, Federico Garcia Lorca, Quevedo, Machado...etc didn't exist.

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    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      OP said novels and almost all you listed are poets... I'd add Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and, if not for the genre controversy, La Celestina. Maybe something of José Cela. The rest of novelists even if they are good (Galdós, Unamuno, Delibes, even the novels by Valle-Inclán for example) are not well known.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Middlemarch
    Well if we're going as low as Middlemarch, then England has about 14 great novels and America has about 12

    Also you missed the 3 other secret greats novels of China: The Plum in the Golden Vase, The Scholars and Investitures of the Gods

    All three quite excellent, I'd also suggest anything on The Generals of the Yang Family

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Chinese_Novels
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_of_the_Gods
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Generals_of_the_Yang_Family

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I'm noticing a distinct lack of Jin Yong novels on that chart. Jin Yong basically invented the genre of martial-arts fantasy (wuxia) that is so popular all over the world; his writings are extremely ubiquitous in China and it's a shame it's only started to be translated so recently. Want to let interested anons know that his 'legend of the condor heroes' series (which is arguably the most popular one) was recently fully translated and released in four books available as epubs.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, Jon Yong's novels are fantastic and fairly crucial to understanding modern Chinese culture. Practically every Chinese person is at least familiar with the novels. I'm patiently waiting for good translations of Deer and the Cauldron and The Smiling, Proud Wanderer

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, the list is also lacking The Spring and Autumn Annals

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    they probably have more than four

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >France and Italy have nothing
    I hope you die the most unpleasant death you deserve you slanteyed frick

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Italy has nothing
    Are you fricking moronic?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Name five.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >no one's mentioned Russia yet
    >War and Peace
    >Anna Karenina
    >Dead Souls
    >The Brothers Karamazov
    All within one century

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >France has nothing

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Ireland:
    See: James Joyce’s bibliography
    (Okay yes dubliners is short stories but your mom is a prostitute.)
    Also america has blood meridian I don’t give a frick how much it’s memed it’s a damn good book and we all know it.

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    China's greatest work of literature: Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, which surpasses The Adjustment Of Controversies or whatever those goblet words are doing in Zhuangzi.

    Sadly in the United Kingdom our greatest literature is mostly deficient in thinking and ambition; clearly there exists a chasm between what words can express and what actions can actually do.

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  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Italy has nothing
    Weren't chinks supposed to be intelligent?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I read some Calvino I was disappointed, it felt a bit like lasciate ogni speranza

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >England only has Middlemarch
    homie you moronic.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Do you know how many people there are in Chinamenland?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      like 1 million, I heard they exaggerate the numbers. It is all fake

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