>What was probably the greatest single event in human history; >One of the greatest combinations of what is best and worst in the human mind; >Hundreds of opportunities for building great characters, scenes, moral dilemmas and other essentials of fiction; >Still portrayed only in fragmented visions in literature, not in an epic like War and Peace
This is probably the biggest gap in the history of literature. The opportunity is still open, and our generation is not yet so far away chronologically from the time it occurred.
This is a virgin land of unconceivable value: the possibility of creating something perhaps superior to the Iliad and War and Peace. Why nobody explores it?
Both the Iliad and W&P are "national" epics. A World War is an international deal, not to mention that W&P is also a "fragmentary" writing on the Napoleonic wars from the perspective of the Russians. Not to mention the stigma surrounding it, with the Holocaust and all that jazz.
Ian Williams
Because Americans are shitty writers, Russians killed all their's, the French have nothing to write about, the Germans are too pussywhipped to write about it, and the British are too ashamed of what they've become.
Hunter Rogers
inb4 all the edgy underage nazi incels ruin the thread
Adrian Gonzalez
what is it with low iq boomers and their infatuation with WW2, is it because liberals do not teach them anything else?
Nicholas Smith
>the Germans are too pussywhipped to write about it
this is the thing. A German writer should have the guts to write about the time, not hiding anything, using Hitler and the party people as main characters, but also fictional jewish and german families. There were people in germany who were against Nazism but still fought in the war. This could provide a very good basis for the work.
If this War and Peace of WWII will come I guess that it should come either from a german or a russian.
Brayden Rodriguez
one day a Jewish Neonazi will pen a masterpiece about it
