The Great British Novel

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Americans have very little sense of subtlty and nuance, or history. Hemingway wanted to write the Great American Novel because there was no such thing. He wrote good novels in Europe then fell away. He wrote great American short stories though. Whitman and Dickinson created their own poetic, which stamps them as individuals not as Americans. All great art, and great dreams, in America are individual not national. America has never had a Tolstoy or a Goethe or even a Celine. Nor has the British, which, like America, are several different nationalities.