Is Austria the Ireland of German speaking countries?
Is Austria the Ireland of German speaking countries?
Nicholas Martin
Connor Carter
Is China the Mexico of Russia?
John Thomas
Austria was the Israel (bankers) of the Axis powers. Israel was the Israel of the allied
Tyler Thomas
Ireland isn't even that important to world literature. It's got Swift, Stoker, Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett, but are any of those comparable to Shakespeare, Sterne, Fielding, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot, and Woolf?
As a matter of fact, are Rilke, Zweig, Bernhard, and the other dude even on par with Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Mann, Hesse, and Grass?
Xavier James
>the other dude
musil
and yes
Eli Rogers
they surpass them
Eli Rodriguez
Germany has always lived in Austria's shadow. The great house of Austria, the Habsburgs, ruled powerfully in Europe for more than half a millennium before Germany even existed as a nation. The Austrians ruled the Germans originally, not the other way around.
Eli Wright
Hence what I said really has more truth
Christian Baker
Austria IS part of Germany
Noah Roberts
>Believes in nation states
You don’t even want to make it, do you?
Justin Reyes
Luis Cooper
if by ireland you mean the best than yeah
Samuel White
they are better than ireland. ireland has like 4-5 good writers
Brody Hernandez
ye catholics aint white desu
Sebastian Cooper
Sterne's Irish, user, and you seem to have shit taste along with a limited knowledge of authors.
Connor Roberts
But that was after Charlemagne
Chase Murphy
>but are any of those comparable to Shakespeare, Sterne, Fielding, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot, and Woolf?
Yes
>are they even on par with Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Mann, Hesse, and Grass?
Also yes
Luis Brooks
somebody kill the guy who invented this mosaikmaker shit
Nathaniel Nguyen
Bump
Jaxson Anderson
>Doesn't know the difference between a nation state and an empire.
Leave this board and never return, you vile sodomite
Cameron Johnson
Joyce is the GOAT. There is no contest. Ireland produced the best writer ever, so they win. Get over it sweaty
Gabriel Green
Shakespeare > Joyce
And, as you say, there is no contest.
Michael Scott
>Austrians
>Not Germans