What's the greatest piece of literature your country has ever produced?

What's the greatest piece of literature your country has ever produced?

Memes are welcome, but serious replies are encouraged.

Picture related, Moby Dick by Herman Melville.

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The most important piece of literature is Max Havelaar by Multatuli.
It's what partially started the decolonisation of the world.

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Unironically this

Grande Sertão: Veredas - Guimarães Rosa

that's my opinion tho
there're who consider Dom Casmurro OR Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma
anyways

Good opinions, here's mine.

I will never stop loving Dune.

I get bored after the coup

me at the top holding onto the boat

It's basically about a guy who becomes a Dutch ruler in Indonesia. And tries to treat the people under him more fairly. Which turns out to be impossible due to widespread corruption and people being forced to act in their own self interest to save their own skin.

Hm, sounds like it could easily be a Joseph Conrad novel

Inb4 some German posts Mein Kampf

harry potter

I'd guess the general consensus would be a work of philosophy, like thus spoke Zarathustra or The Communist manifesto. Or Faust.

Also not saying it's the greatest American novel, but my favorite horror is IT.

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What's the greatest literature of the Finns?

Faust

Yeap... Agreed. I'd post that as well.

It's gotta be Faust for the germs

A book that's currently very popular is Het huis van de moskee by Kader Abdolah. Or in English The House of the Mosque.

It's about the revolution in Iran. How it came to be what it is today. It's a very Sup Forums book.

The infamous c*ckold copypasta

>my favourite horror story is the one where an alien disguises itself as a clown to kill people because reasons and is temporarily defeated by a group of children shooting silver at it with a slingshot, which requires the only girl of the group to have sex with all of the boys because reasons
>also, giant turtle that created the universe and hates the clown

Väinö Linna's works are the best imo. Unknown soldier is a classic war novel on par with All Quiet on the Western Front

this is definitely the GOAT Argentine writer

The gangbang is out there, but other than that it's a pretty great story tbqh.

I enjoyed this book about your cunt desu

Ah fug, forgot to attach the pic

Sinuhe the Egyptian is the most intl. known good finnish book I guess

i like Linna's work like Unknown Soldier and Under the North Star

This is a mexican masterpiece

divine comedy by dante alighieri
The make us study that for five years in high school. Nevermind that it is written in old tuscan dialect so it's even more difficult

The divine comedy

do you guys have to study ancient roman literature too?

>not The Aeneid
>not The Metamorphoses

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Yeah we study latin and ancient greek and we have to translate. It's hell

>romans
>italians

Btw the divine comedy is WITHOUT ANY DOUBT the more influential and studied piece of italian literature, there are dantists societies all over the world

Apparantly a lot is lost in translation. While the English translation does its best to stay loyal to the dialects it obviously infinitely better in Finnish.

americans only know about inferno

I wish we had to study at least latin as well, not being able to "go to the sources and see it for yourself" made studying humanities kinda boring, especially with our low quality portuguese translations

Cause paradiso is boring af

probably this.

the kalevala

this one knows whats talking about

i don't know i think latin is a very boring language, i've never liked it. it's also very difficult

latin difficult? Then you have never studied greek

>native speaker of a Romance language finds Latin very difficult

for shame, Luigi!

>tfw you have only one novel anyone's ever heard of
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Don Quixote?

Donnie Cayote?

nobody would know about it anyway

everyone knows about sophie's world tho

this Norwegian guy is pretty popular in America

i-i was actually thinking about heimskringla but okay

Don Quijote?

I don't think we have one.

"my struggle"
sounds familiar..

John Quickoats

Pippi Långstrump probably has the largest international readership.

Fredmans sånger and Fredmans epistlar by Bellman have probably had more impact on Swedish literary culture than any works before or after it.

Would the Sagas count?

Would you count The metamorphosis or The Trial?

I mean Kafka was Czech, but he wrote in German and was a jew.