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Russian and French 19c literature are the two obvious counter-examples. I admire the attempt to reframe the question in terms that allow you to claim English is
by grey-area 8y ago
Russian and French 19c literature are the two obvious counter-examples. I admire the attempt to reframe the question in terms that allow you to claim English is pre-eminent though.
- fooker 8y agoPlease name 10 popular high fantasy novels spanning multi thousand pages in French and Russian.
- ddebernardy 8y agoNot the OP, but FWIW Jules Verne was French...
- dorchadas 8y agoSo, basically, if they don't have the breadth of literary genres that English does, they're not as good. That's a horrible metric to judge literature and literary value by.
- fooker 8y agoI never mentioned anything about 'good' or 'judge'. My point was about breadth, which is factual to the best of my knowledge.
- grey-area 8y agoQED