/lit/ - Literature

>>23753355
We are in a literary dark age. May well be a bright age for other things -- space exploration, Chinese dams, sex robots -- but for literature specifically it is not.

You can see it in the fact that writers no longer have any followers, they simply die and no new ones show up, which means a lack of continuation, a fundamental break that insinuates an ending. It used to be that after every generation of writers a new one would come, yet the Latin American boom has left no heirs, only mediocrities. The post-modern American novel -- which gave us Pynchon, Barth, Gass, Gaddis -- had no intelligent continuators, except for DFW, who killed himself. The best European novelists -- Krasznahorkai, Fosse -- are all very old, and most have died, with no new ones showing up. The only novelists of some literary merit who still seem to exist for the public are Houellebecq and Camus (and mostly for political reasons), as well as maybe Knausgaard (and mostly for sensationalist reasons), yet now they're all old too.
Nor is there any young poet even comparable to Geoffrey Hill or Yves Bonnefoy. And by 'young' I don't mean actually young, I mean anyone under 50. The generation born in the 70's and 80's has given us no great writers at all, it's completely empty. They grew up on television, listening to shit music, and were the first to waste some of their youth on the early internet. They don't have the specific type of education and culture, or even imagination, that a great writer needs.

Literature is about to meet the same fate as opera, which poetry has obviously already met.
Remember that opera was *the* most popular, and in fact greatest, art form of the West even ~110 years ago, right up to World War I. Even in the 1930's Toscanini was still a household name, comparable in fame if not to Taylor Swift then to Paul McCartney: everyone knew him -- the old, revered maestro -- and he was cover of Time Magazine more than once, casually mentioned in Marx Brothers movies, requested everywhere from Istambul to California. Enrico Caruso was the first pop star of the recording era.
Yet by 1960 the art form was dead to the youth, and now it is dead to everyone but a very small minority of interested people, who are usually musicians themselves. Only isolated geniuses like Stockhausen continued to produce operatic masterpieces, and even then in a very distorted form, obsessed with small, overrationalized minutiae, characteristic of an age of total decadence which looks desperately for reasons (rationality, originality, scientism, crazy philosophizing) to justify itself, because it know it now needs justification -- which Puccini and Verdi never needed.

Don't be mistaken by booktubers, romance novels etc. These will continue to sell, but they're the equivalent of Broadway musicals, and are as likely to lead to a resurgence of literature as Loyd Webber to a resurgence of opera.

>>20918691

>17 de febrero de 2021: me olvidan

>>16800533
>Hispanic forced meme

Jesús G. Maestro, a university professor - and disciple of the famous philosopher Gustavo Bueno - who wrote a 3000 pages series of books on the theory of literature

>Anglo forced meme

Some 18 y.o. Jap from YouTube.


What is wrong with Anglos? Why are Anglos allergic to serious literature? How can those who speak the language of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Milton, and Jonathan Swift be so absolutely alien to real books?

>>16547171
I'd do more than kiss him, anon...

Ok /lit/, what did he mean by this?

(I can't "speak" "Spanish")

El mito de Harold Bloom y su anglosajónico «canon occidental»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVQYyKYYTbM

As far as I know, there is only 1 (one) living "booktuber" worth listening to, even though I mostly disagree with him.

Pic related: it's him and his 3,000 pages masterpiece (Critique of the Literary Reason, yet untranslated into English).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugxGGX2iBDc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlW5Vu9GJyA
This guy speaks out of his ass. It's no wonder that all of his videos have the comment section disabled, otherwise it would be full of people pointing out his mistakes.

https://youtu.be/UlW5Vu9GJyA?t=1h2m35s

Tomad nota, hegelianos.