Why do people only talk about the English, French, and Russian Canons?

**Mr.lucifer** · 01-29-2011, 09:33 PM

What is it all people talk about the English, French, and Russian Canons except for a few italian, german, and and spanish great writers?

What about the Chinese, Japanese, Spanish etc. Canons? Theres a wealth of world literature out there. How about people talk about say for example the four great chinese novels, or the short stories of Lu Xun? Or how the latin american Boom?

**mortalterror** · 01-29-2011, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by Mr.lucifer

How about people talk about say for example the four great chinese novels, or the short stories of Lu Xun?

Alright, what did you think about them?

**JCamilo** · 01-29-2011, 09:49 PM

The USA blocking starts

**sixsmith** · 01-29-2011, 09:52 PM

**OrphanPip** · 01-29-2011, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by sixsmith

Let's have another 5 page debate about whether or not this emoticon is appropriate.

**JCamilo** · 01-29-2011, 10:19 PM

I am sure the horse can be replaced by the word slave. It is now a trademark solution.

**Drkshadow03** · 01-29-2011, 11:14 PM

Personally, I always wonder why nobody ever talks about the Finnish, Bohemian, and Kazakhastan literary Canons.

**mortalterror** · 01-29-2011, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by Drkshadow03

Personally, I always wonder why nobody ever talks about the Finnish, Bohemian, and Kazakhastan literary Canons.

I always wonder why nobody ever checks the threads we have open on all of these foreign canons before posting a new one.

**Mutatis-Mutandis** · 01-30-2011, 12:29 AM

I guess a discussion on the Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, etc. canons would have to start with some sort of interesting comment pertaining to them. I don't have one, though.

**hanzklein** · 01-30-2011, 01:10 AM

Why is every thread on this forum in the form of an unanswerable question?

**mortalterror** · 01-30-2011, 01:37 AM

**Mutatis-Mutandis** · 01-30-2011, 01:59 AM

Mortalterror: Doing the work other members are too lazy to do.

**arrytus** · 01-30-2011, 05:01 AM

Originally Posted by Mr.lucifer

How about people talk about say for example the four great chinese novels, or the short stories of Lu Xun?

Thanks to someone's prompting on this site I started reading a copy of Lu Xun I had. It was fabulous. He really is the Chinese Chekov, not only because both studied to be doctors prior to writing humorous realism for nominal payment prior to huge cultural changes in their respective countries.

As for the 4 Chinese novels, I actually had a chance to purchase a 4 volume novel to which you might be alluding, just 2 days ago but I turned it down simply because I don't know enough about it and because my reading list is so long.

As it stands we here in the west aren't educated in the least about eastern cultures and only nominally with middle-eastern until we decide to do so for ourselves, usually in college for the quorum who actually take it upon themselves to do so. And if we don't have Asian friends or formal propadeutic to influence we have to wend by intuition or through the vague and limited connections we can discern from our haphazard starting points.

**kelby_lake** · 01-30-2011, 07:14 AM

Originally Posted by Mr.lucifer

What is it all people talk about the English, French, and Russian Canons except for a few italian, german, and spanish great writers?

Because people don't know very much about them (maybe lack of translations), and because the French and Russians have produced some epic stuff

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