>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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>france has nothing
>doesn't know about Gargantua and Pantagruel
I've read it. I find it too disjointed, starting from Book 3, to be on par with Don Quixote and the likes.
What about Les Miserables?
The digression about the Parisian Sewers is fitting because the novel is shit.
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't know about Gargantua and Pantagruel
Never heard about them.
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
>Italy has nothing
>the first thing you see when you open IQfy is a picture of Dante's Paradise
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
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.
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.
>spain have only Don Quixote.
Yeah Pio Baroja, Federico Garcia Lorca, Quevedo, Machado...etc didn't exist.
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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.
>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
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.
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
Yes, the list is also lacking The Spring and Autumn Annals
they probably have more than four
>France and Italy have nothing
I hope you die the most unpleasant death you deserve you slanteyed frick
>Italy has nothing
Are you fricking moronic?
Name five.
>no one's mentioned Russia yet
>War and Peace
>Anna Karenina
>Dead Souls
>The Brothers Karamazov
All within one century
>France has nothing
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.
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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>Italy has nothing
Weren't chinks supposed to be intelligent?
I read some Calvino I was disappointed, it felt a bit like lasciate ogni speranza
>England only has Middlemarch
homie you moronic.
Do you know how many people there are in Chinamenland?
like 1 million, I heard they exaggerate the numbers. It is all fake