Why has literature died?
Why has literature died?
Caleb Gonzalez
Easton Ward
It hasn't. Pull your head out
Luke Carter
Just wanted to thank whoever posted the links to Lust, Caution in Chinese. The thread 404'd, so I thought I'd post a thank you in the top couple of threads.
Angel Stewart
Name 10 great authors who have had their debut in the last decade.
Joshua Jackson
the "canon of great works" you likely hold up as definitive of literature is an after the fact construct.
this is not to say that its irrelevant, just that you will not ever have a current "literary scene" because in ten years people will be looking back to describe what the literary scene of today was
so just read a lot, don't miss anything
Luke Martin
No one knew our boy Herman Melville was any good until he was good and dead. So this question might be hard to answer.
Joseph Lee
It's obsolete. Superior modern art forms have siphoned away all of the writing talent and now the only people still writing books are the ones who couldn't sell a screenplay.
Justin Hernandez
Screenplays are inferior. You don't have the freedom to write what you want.
Adrian Bailey
Political correctness in the publishing industry
Juan Cruz
>name 10 authors you like so I can shit on them haha!
>implying most "great authors" are decided on while they're still young/working
Austin Morris
Same reason as in the 17th Century.
Caleb Campbell
I’ve lost my step
Isaac Butler
And I killed myself.
David Adams
It's not dead. It's an 83 year old reclusive black man in bumblefuck Vermont.
Liam Collins
Literature is the highest art.
Noah Hughes
Media
Cooper Robinson
I somehow can't bring myself to think of the novel as "art." Painting, music, sculpture yes, but nothing else. Fucking weird, I know
Henry Davis
Not entirely true. Melville published his first novel at 26 to immediate success and was for a brief time renown as a writer of seafaring adventures. It was when he outgrew these novels and turned to higher themes that critics and sales turned against him. He sabotaged his own career.
Connor Jackson
>And I killed myself.
For plagiarism.
Ryan Reed
This made me laugh, because, I’ve seen you typed this on here before, unaware I am of David’s plagiarism, enlighten me, educate me butter fren
Liam Hernandez
Loss of meaning, opulence, scientism, stupid wars, political and spiritual repression, and all anyone can write about is revenge and how shit the world is.
Nicholas Rivera
Mathias Enard is the superior contemporary French author
Dylan Peterson
Not me, for what its worth.
Noah Green
1979?
Matthew Long
Christian Richardson
Too slow
Liam Morris
No, not even remotely. The only people saying otherwise are Europeans who still don't realize they are Americans and future victims of Paris syndrome
Europe is totally 200% Americanized. Romantic mutts in the Western hemisphere like to imagine that when they get to Europe they'll be greeted by dairymaids and stained glass windows, and Europeans like to imagine that their brains aren't the personal property of Starbucks and Google, but in actuality both worlds have long since melded into the same crappy reality we find ourselves in, and guess what, Starbucks won.
The horrifying truth is that America is simply an exaggeration of Europe's worst tendencies, Europe feeds on American exaggerations since it has none of its own, and both regions are trapped in a self-reinforcing cultural feedback loop that will only end when Europe has nothing European left
Europe is a European-themed economic zone within the United States of America. Europe has no real remaining cultural distinctions from America, Europe is America and at best a subculture of the wider American Empire.
Sebastian King
where can i buy that jacket?
Asher Roberts
Jace Hall
sounds about right
Henry Lopez
The Internet. It’s also why we have school shootings.
Jason Butler
I stopped writing books.
Robert Bell
my diary hasn't been published yet desu