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Essentially all of the really good American authors came after world war I: Fitzgerald, Salinger, Hemmingway. Before that, European literature was miles ahead: Dostoyevsky, for example, had no counterpart.
For whatever reason, American literature is big here... I don't know why, but we read a lot of mediocre US authors of the 19th and early twentieth century instead of their European counterparts (Crane instead of Zola, etc.)
You'd think that in keeping with this philosophy, they'd find some dull domestic product to take the place of Shakespeare and Dickens (not especially intersting authors anyways IMO). But they don't... ah well.
For whatever reason, American literature is big here... I don't know why, but we read a lot of mediocre US authors of the 19th and early twentieth century instead of their European counterparts (Crane instead of Zola, etc.)
You'd think that in keeping with this philosophy, they'd find some dull domestic product to take the place of Shakespeare and Dickens (not especially intersting authors anyways IMO). But they don't... ah well.
