/lit/ - Literature

Hey anons. Maybe someone here can help me because my googling is failing me. I am searching for the title of a book I read. Here is the stuff I know : Male protagonist, he is maybe 14 years or so old. He and his dad or uncle catch Wisps/spirits at the beginning of the book and put them in flasks. Relatively early in the book the village they live in gets attacked and destroyed and he has to flee. I think that the book ends with a siege of a city he fled to. I think the central antagonists of the book are demons or something like that not sure. Any tipps and stuff would be appreciated.

>>10665131
>whats the relevance of this paraphrasing to postmodernism
Ugh. Really? Ok...Ok...

Ressentiment fueled Marxists failures co-opted the idea of post modernism in the 60s after witnessing the West flourish rather than fail while the USSR was recognized for the atrocity it was. Realizing their own tenets untenable, they went on to develop the idea of subjectivity and relativism to attack the dominant narratives, if you couldn't have equality of capital, you would at least have equality of ideas. This was the new Marxist frontier, they couldn't construct something greater than the West, so they sought to deconstruct the West. This line of thinking evolved heavily over time in academia where it amassed dominance, people grew up with this sort of thinking and began to demand "more", resulting in today's idea that not only are classic western authors and ideas built upon exploitation and other narratives require representation, the western narrative, the white male narrative, in fact owes a sort of debt for that exploitation, that equality isn't enough, it needs to be silenced to better allow other groups and ideas. This is the weak, encroaching upon the strong, very much in line with what Nietzche describes. I can't believe I have to explain this in a discussion about Nietzsche and post modernism, ressentiment literally built the post modern school as we know it.

>>10665152
Look dumbass, the fact that post-modernists think Nietzsche was one of them and borrow from his style and his idea of (dis)guises calling it deconstruction doesn't fucking make it so. He is deeply antithetical to basically all of their conclusions. Foucault and Derrida are obscurantist con-men, their claiming Nietzsche is a better discredit than anything else.

>>10663418
>judging quality of literature based on social and cultural impact

>reading current year literature

>>18883
>he can't sense sarcasm over the internet

LAFFIN'