I‘d just like to ask everyone in this thread to bear in mind even for just one moment the intrinsic bias of this conversation, hinging not just on taste and various metrics, but less obviously on cultural supremacy (I find „imperialism“ too tough a word). We can only compare and discuss the great literatures that were endorsed by a polit…
I‘d just like to ask everyone in this thread to bear in mind even for just one moment the intrinsic bias of this conversation, hinging not just on taste and various metrics, but less obviously on cultural supremacy (I find „imperialism“ too tough a word). We can only compare and discuss the great literatures that were endorsed by a political (and military) power which made it possible for its cultural products to circulate or be translated. The „big“ languages. Before we go into classifying (and comparing) the quality of literature by climate or continent, perhaps we take a moment to appreciate the countless writers we‘ll always be ignorant of.
I‘d just like to ask everyone in this thread to bear in mind even for just one moment the intrinsic bias of this conversation, hinging not just on taste and various metrics, but less obviously on cultural supremacy (I find „imperialism“ too tough a word). We can only compare and discuss the great literatures that were endorsed by a political (and military) power which made it possible for its cultural products to circulate or be translated. The „big“ languages. Before we go into classifying (and comparing) the quality of literature by climate or continent, perhaps we take a moment to appreciate the countless writers we‘ll always be ignorant of.
100%. Excellent point very well made. There is a good reason so many European countries feature in this thread.