Why has this continent not produced anything of literary worth since WWI? America has Pynchon, David Foster Wallace...

I imagine it's less owing to Europe's output than it is to America loving to thump its chest even if all it has to offer is mediocrity. Not a single American listed in OP is on par with the Americans who've come before them--Melville, Hawthorne, Stegner, Hemingway, Faulkner; infinitely superior against the current crop. There are, at present, no popular literary writers worthy of note. My two pennies.

Artists can travel or immigrate to whatever place they want. Who gives a fuck where they live or whether they're Jews or not? It's the art that stays.

>Vonnegut
>being of worth

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Jewish culture produces Jewish writers, not Christian cultures, but I am simply remarking that this continent seems to not be able to produce one good writer who is undoubtedly theirs

>Kurt Vonnegut
>George Orwell
>Aldous Huxley
>Chuck Palahniuk

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>Nabokov
>Had to escape to America, presumably due to European midwittery
Which is funny since Lolita had to be printed and published in France because Americans were so cringe, uneducated and prude that they thought it was pornography and wouldn't publish it. But of course now burgers suck his dick and claim him as one of their own.

What are you talking about?
Il Gattopardo Is the best novel since WW1 and it's European.

Bait thread

Mann and Bernhard alone surpasses everything the US has produced in the same period.

What did they write in WW1 that was so good?

downplaying Kafka is always a great way of showing how incredibly retarded you are. Greatest German writer of the 20th century and I say that as a germanophone from Vienna.

>Why has this continent not produced anything of literary worth since WWI?
So that the rests of the world has time to catch up.

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WG Sebald alone is worth more than all of american "literature" combined

Don’t forget that the British also refused to publish it, fuckwit.

>t. Th' eternal burger who relies on translations and is unfamiliar with the more occult epigones of the europäische Spätroman

I’ve been perplexed and amused by fabricated notions about so-called “great books.” That, for instance, Mann’s asinine Death in Venice, or Pasternak’s melodramatic, vilely written Doctor Zhivago, or Faulkner’s corncobby chronicles can be considered masterpieces, or at least what journalists term “great books,” is to me the same sort of absurd delusion as when a hypnotized person makes love to a chair.

Kundera is absolutely nothing like Orwell, and Zweig is a mediocrity.

Nabokov was not wrong about Pasternak, he was a poet first and foremost, Doctor Zhivago is an inside joke, and only burgers do not seem to get it to this very day.

Nobody gets it to this day because nobody bothers to read it. It was, is, and will always be pap, and the movie of it is even worse. Dr. Zhivago alone, by itself, is proof of Russian midwittery. It’s a massive black hole that has sucked in and destroyed much Russian literary legacy.

Movie is kino. Faggot.

The best and the brightest were mostly killed off in WWI. WWII finished off what was left of them, plus of course many exiled themselves to the US and elsewhere. All that was left in Europe was peasants and midwits, who then proceeded to produce more of the same.
>Lolita had to be printed and published in France
This is a pretty good example of midwit Euro “intelligence” right here, with its implication of “progressive” Europe vs. “prudish” America. Fact is, Lolita was despised in most of Europe and would never have been published in Germany, Italy, etc. even had these countries been technically capable of it. Lolita was banned by the British. Hilariously enough, Lolita was also banned by the French a year after it was first printed. The first American edition of the book appeared before the first French edition (as we really cannot consider Olympia Press to be French). All these Euro midwits do is repeat shit that they don’t understand; their ignorance of their own history (cultural and otherwise) is staggering.

The movie sucks, and so do you. Turbofaggot.

>Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebranded version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It published a mix of erotic fiction and avant-garde literary fiction, and is best known for the first print of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Girodias was born Maurice Kahane in Paris, France, the son of Manchester-born Jack Kahane and a French heiress, Marcelle (née Girodias).[2] His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic.[3][4]
Every, Gottdam, time

>Dr. Zhivago alone, by itself, is proof of Russian midwittery. It’s a massive black hole that has sucked in and destroyed much Russian literary legacy.
What happened?

Lawrence Durrell. Now fuck off

Nabokov is a well known player hater. Perhaps the worst there ever was.