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Naturally, this absence has been a centuries-old shame and frustration for the ever-proud and confident USA. In that regard, writing a ''Great American Novel'' has become the literary version of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Every American novelist aspires to write it one day, and in popular culture, this has become a RunningGag and a good example of SpeculativeFiction. This concept is more a cultural sensibility than anything derived from history. USA is far from being alone in having a belated literary tradition. As noted by many scholars, despite having a nearly thousand-year head start on America, Russian literature was mostly marginal until the 19th century, when Creator/AleksandrPushkin arrived. Pushkin was a contemporary of Creator/WashingtonIrving and Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper and yet the Russians did not really have or need any concept of a "Great Russian Novel" (even if they have many great novels in the Russian language). Likewise, the nations of South America largely had their creative and literary renaissance in the 20th Century, as did many other nations in the world and even in these cases the idea of catching up to the European canon has generally not been an essential concern.
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Naturally, this absence has been a centuries-old shame and frustration for the ever-proud and confident USA. In that regard, writing a ''Great American Novel'' has become the literary version of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Every American novelist aspires to write it one day, and in popular culture, this has become a RunningGag and a good example of SpeculativeFiction. This concept is more a cultural sensibility than anything derived from history. USA is far from being alone in having a belated literary tradition. As noted by many scholars, despite having a nearly thousand-year head start on America, Russian literature was mostly marginal until the 19th century, when Creator/AleksandrPushkin arrived. Pushkin was a contemporary of Creator/WashingtonIrving and Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper and yet the Russians did not really have or need any concept of a "Great Russian Novel" (even if they have many great novels in the Russian language). Likewise, the nations of South America largely had their creative and literary renaissance in the 20th Century, century, as did many other nations in the world and even in these cases the idea of catching up to the European canon has generally not been an essential concern.
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Naturally, this absence has been a centuries-old shame and frustration for the ever-proud and confident USA. In that regard, writing a ''Great American Novel'' has become the literary version of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Every American novelist aspires to write it one day, and in popular culture, this has become a RunningGag and a good example of SpeculativeFiction. This concept is more a cultural sensibility than anything derived from history. USA is far from being alone in having a belated literary tradition. As noted by many scholars, despite having a nearly thousand-year head start on America, Russian Literature was mostly marginal until the 19th Century, when Creator/AleksandrPushkin arrived. Pushkin was a contemporary of Creator/WashingtonIrving and Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper and yet the Russians did not really have or need any concept of a "Great Russian Novel" (even if they have many great novels in the Russian language). Likewise, the nations of South America largely had their creative and literary renaissance in the 20th Century, as did many other nations in the world and even in these cases the idea of catching up to the European canon has generally not been an essential concern.
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Naturally, this absence has been a centuries-old shame and frustration for the ever-proud and confident USA. In that regard, writing a ''Great American Novel'' has become the literary version of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream. Every American novelist aspires to write it one day, and in popular culture, this has become a RunningGag and a good example of SpeculativeFiction. This concept is more a cultural sensibility than anything derived from history. USA is far from being alone in having a belated literary tradition. As noted by many scholars, despite having a nearly thousand-year head start on America, Russian Literature literature was mostly marginal until the 19th Century, century, when Creator/AleksandrPushkin arrived. Pushkin was a contemporary of Creator/WashingtonIrving and Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper and yet the Russians did not really have or need any concept of a "Great Russian Novel" (even if they have many great novels in the Russian language). Likewise, the nations of South America largely had their creative and literary renaissance in the 20th Century, as did many other nations in the world and even in these cases the idea of catching up to the European canon has generally not been an essential concern.
