/lit/ - Literature

>>20297919
Thanks!

>Or, if that doesn't float your boat, I'll do a drunken rambling on any writer you post and I'll vocaroo it!

Hardly modernist, but how about that meme quote from Hollaback's "Whatever", too?

>Sure. It’s been hopeless for a long time, from the very beginning. You will never represent, Raphael, a young girl’s erotic dream. You have to resign yourself to the inevitable, such things are not for you. It’s already too late, in any case. The sexual failure you’ve known since your adolescence, Raphael, the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen, will leave their indelible mark. Even supposing that you might have women in the future - which in all frankness I doubt - this will not be enough; nothing will ever be enough. You will always be an orphan to those adolescent loves you never knew. In you the wound is already deep; it will get deeper and deeper. An atrocious, unremitting bitterness will end up gripping your heart. For you there will be neither redemption nor deliverance. That’s how it is.

>"Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word. The attractile drives are unleashed around the age of thirteen, after which they gradually diminish, or rather they are resolved in models of behaviour which are, after all, only constrained forces. The violence of the initial explosion means that the outcome of the conflict may remain uncertain for years; this is what is called a transitory regime in electrodynamics. But little by little the oscillations become slower, to the point of resolving themselves in mild and melancholic long waves; from this moment on all is decided, and life is nothing more than a preparation for death. This can be expressed in a more brutal and less exact way by saying that man is a diminished adolescent.”

Uhhh...how are you supposed to refute this?

It seems that the zeitgeist is slowly turning around on the '68 generation and the seeds they have sown. Can you guys recommend me something which takes a critical look at the '68 movement and their effects on western society? I'm fine with either lefty or right-wing critique.

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>>17468532
Houllebecq is just a run-down average guy, shartre is a literal monstrosity.

>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

Are incels our last hope in being the seedbed of great literature and art in general?

>>16521599
He had his moments before he got goblin'd.

>>16232299
>Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word. The attractile drives are unleashed around the age of thirteen, after which they gradually diminish, or rather they are resolved in models of behaviour which are, after all, only constrained forces. The violence of the initial explosion means that the outcome of the conflict may remain uncertain for years; this is what is called a transitory regime in electrodynamics. But little by little the oscillations become slower, to the point of resolving themselves in mild and melancholic long waves; from this moment on all is decided, and life is nothing more than a preparation for death. This can be expressed in a more brutal and less exact way by saying that man is a diminished adolescent.

>>16001655
I think that's because he's gracefully ugly, if that makes sense. He's a goblin but he doesn't let it control his presence.

He also looked a lot better when he was younger.

>>15947833
SEX (is bad and not really fulfilling if it's not within the context of a healthy, long term relationship between two people who feel a genuine connection and love towards each other)

SEX (is bad and not really fulfilling if it's not within the context of a healthy, long term relationship between two people who feel a genuine connection and love towards each other)

SEX (is bad and not really fulfilling if it's not within the context of a healthy, long term relationship between two people who feel a genuine connection and love towards each other)

SEX (is bad and not really fulfilling if it's not within the context of a healthy, long term relationship between two people who feel a genuine connection and love towards each other)

SEX (is bad and not really fulfilling if it's not within the context of a healthy, long term relationship between two people who feel a genuine connection and love towards each other)

>>15763342
He used to look okay.

Who's the anti-Houllebecq? Who will let me peer into the zeitgeist of pre-9/11 optimistic, comfortable, feel-good liberalism?

>>15272267

>is the book a blackpill? looks interesting but I don't want to get depressed.

Uhh....

>Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full sense of the word. The attractile drives are unleashed around the age of thirteen, after which they gradually diminish, or rather they are resolved in models of behaviour which are, after all, only constrained forces. The violence of the initial explosion means that the outcome of the conflict may remain uncertain for years; this is what is called a transitory regime in electrodynamics. But little by little the oscillations become slower, to the point of resolving themselves in mild and melancholic long waves; from this moment on all is decided, and life is nothing more than a preparation for death. This can be expressed in a more brutal and less exact way by saying that man is a diminished adolescent.”

>"You will never represent, Raphael, a young girl’s erotic dream. You have to resign yourself to the inevitable; such things are not for you. It’s already too late, in any case. The sexual failure you’ve known since your adolescence, Raphael, the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen, will leave their indelible mark. Even supposing that you might have women in the future - which in all frankness I doubt - this will not be enough; nothing will ever be enough. You will always be an orphan to those adolescent loves you never knew. In you the wound is already deep; it will get deeper and deeper. An atrocious, unremitting bitterness will end up gripping your heart. For you there will be neither redemption nor deliverance. That’s how it is."

>>15263592
Houllebecq looked kinda cute in that tortured artist sort of way before he stopped giving a fuck.

>>15092962
>"You will never represent, Raphael, a young girl’s erotic dream. You have to resign yourself to the inevitable; such things are not for you. It’s already too late, in any case. The sexual failure you’ve known since your adolescence, Raphael, the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen, will leave their indelible mark. Even supposing that you might have women in the future - which in all frankness I doubt - this will not be enough; nothing will ever be enough. You will always be an orphan to those adolescent loves you never knew. In you the wound is already deep; it will get deeper and deeper. An atrocious, unremitting bitterness will end up gripping your heart. For you there will be neither redemption nor deliverance. That’s how it is."

Which authors are not afraid of mocking the bourgeoisie of our day?

>>13877976
Just wanted to post this. I unironically had to stop reading for a moment because it made me cry.

Since then I've become more comfortable with the thought that not everybody is meant to be in a relationship, and that for many, with establishing a family out of question, the only paths left open are either asceticism or suicide. I wish I could say wholeheartedly that its the former, but God knows I wouldn't be honest if I did.

>>13824936
Houllebecq.

>>13775813
You will forever remain the orphan of the loves you never had, anon. That's just the way it is.

Does /ourguy/ stand a chance of being added?

>>13744075
A few times I've been around this track... I'm back.

>>13741469
Well, a few times he's been around that track...

>>13671684
How can I avoid aging like him?

Bumping for this man