/lit/ - Literature

/lit/, I need to know I'm understanding this correctly

Existentialists seek to reconcile the lack of a purpose in the world (nihilism) with the inherent human desire to have purpose in our lives (the combination of which is absurdism)

Existentialists then devote their lives to some purpose that they themselves give to an aspect of their lives or beliefs. Is this not, in essence, telling yourself a comforting lie?

Lets make a better list, /lit/, help me out

Art: (really not my speciality)
>Michelangelo's David
>The Last Supper
>Venus de Milo
>Starry Night
>Creation of Adam
>The ecstasy of St Teresa

Literature: (Already pretty good)
>Odyssey
>Don Quixote
>Ulysses
>The Sound and the Fury
>Brothers Karamazov

Film (This one tends to have a modern bias, fine film is not my forte)
>Citizen Kane
>Casablanca
>2001
>Bicycle thieves

Anime (Should this even be included?)
>Akira
>Grave of the fireflies
>Spirited Away
>Ghost in the Shell
>Cowboy Bebop

Video Games
>Bioshock
>Shadow of the Colossus
>Portal
>The Last of Us
>Okami

Music (Some are pictures, some albumns, I'll just name people)
>Bach
>Beethoven
>Mozart
>Tchaikovsky
>Wagner
>Chopin
[feels wrong to include some of these in comparison to others]
>Beatles
>Bob Dylan
>Rolling stones


Edit as you please

I hate when this happens in any form of media. When a main character in a film works in the film industry it breaks immersion as I quietly seethe at the writer for his lack of originality.

When a protagonist in a novel is an author, editor, or prospective writer I'm always tempted to return to Hemingway, who said "fuck that, I'll just do awesome shit and write about it, who wants to read about a guy writing a book?"

Surprisingly people let Stephen king off easily in a lot of this. Not only does he base the characters off himself, but he writes it in his home state.

I can't stand people who can only write themselves