/lit/ - Literature

>>12792393
Some anon old me to get off of this website once

>The goal of the society where you live is to destroy you. You have the same goal with regard to society. The weapon that it will use is indifference. You cannot allow yourself to have the same attitude. Attack! All societies have their points of least resistance, their wounds. Put your finger on the wound, and press down hard.
Do you agree with this? He's addressing writers and artists in general btw.

>>It's a fact that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization . Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It's what's known as 'the law of the market'...Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society

>>11398114

Most exciting writer living today.

>>11377018
>why bother?

>It's a fact that in societies like ours sex truly represents a second system of differentiation, completely independent of money; and as a system of differentiation it functions just as mercilessly. The effects of these two systems are, furthermore, strictly equivalent. Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization . Some men make love every day; others five or six times in their life, or never. Some make love with dozens of women; others with none. It's what's known as 'the law of the market'...Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society
Will the incel movement spawn great literature?

Stop loving. Start fucking.

Who is the Houellebecq of the Left?

He doesn't give a single fuck
https://youtu.be/hL7tQRV40io?t=134

>>8986055
God bless anon! Just dont fall into nihilistic narcissist trap, it will close your perception of the absolute need for salvation.

ITT: Authors and books for bitter, lonely, pathetic men

pls don't attack me I need those in order to remain sane

>>7764541
>/r/4chan
By the way, any one else thinks the New Sincerity is neither new (in fact, it's stylistically in-debt to its immediate predecessors, sort of like Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. It's after the fact, it's pandering) nor sincere?

New Sincerity- in all senses of that term- belongs to pic related. Not Jonathan Franzen and DFW.

Post quotes you love by authors you can't stomach.

I start:

“Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evil; it is also another word for deceit.”
― Michel Houellebecq

I personally can't take Houellebecq seriously, with all that cynicism and edginess, and his stories are always about himself lamenting the fact that he can't have sex with hot girls, and the fact that he has sex as his only reason to live.