[LMB] OT: First book, second language

[B. Ross Ashley]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:48:32 -0400, Marna Nightingale <marna at marna.ca>
wrote:

> Jim Parish wrote:


>> Hmm. Is there a national literature anywhere whose greatest works 
>> *aren't* somehow downbeat? I'm certainly not familiar with any (though 
>> I'll admit to limited experience).
>  
>

> *waves from up North*

> Robertson Davies is often not depressing. Other than that ...

> 3Jane on lj summed up the basic theme of Canadian Literature as "the 
> trees are malevolent" once, and she's not wrong.

> Marna.

Hey, what about Stephen Leacock and Hugh Garner? Or, since not all literature is fiction, Pierre Berton and Farley Mowat? 

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B. Ross Ashley, didn't have to study his adopted country's "national literature" in high school
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