/lit/ - Literature

>>4543723
>tfw Zadie Smith wrote White Teeth while she was revising for her university finals
>tfw I haven't so much as written a complete short story

>tfw have drunk too much to be able to read tonight
>tfw tfw every night

am i wrong in thinking most postmodern texts are just too self-aware that they really impede any profound expression on the part of the writer? it just doesn't strike me as the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" that characterised most romantic literature.

is new sublimity still a laughing stock around /lit/?

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>implying the opening sentence of a novel has multiple sentences

>J.D Salinger died in your lifetime

>>4200586
lol @ you thinking anyone manipulating your emotions is an artist.
I mentioned above several japanese writers that are lightyears beyond your niche-pandering games, and nobody needs emotions clouding their judgment to appreciate them.
Art is not only about emotions, it's about consistency, aesthetics, psychological exploration of self, and expressing that to someone else.
"Feels" do not equate art.

>connexion