/lit/ - Literature

>>12334782
Notes from Underground
>>12334841
something by Phillip Roth

I haven't bothered keeping up with either of these people, what are good quality introductions and summations for both of them?

I don't care really but this happening seems to /comfy/ to miss, and I'd like to cultivate some emotional investment of some sort.

it was a dystopia

this sort of deliberately shackled existence where humans are deliberately reduced to a cattle-like state of idiocy so as to be kept controlled is a corruption of technology and nature both.

ultimately, BNW shows a society which has fallen to a state of purposeless self-indulgence. why continue propagating the society at all, if this servile stasis is all that can be achieved?

ironically, it makes slaves of the superintelligent and the idiots both, and everyone in between. the savage is right in abhorring it, and there are many reasons to do so.

>always thinking up new ideas for stories and such
>whenever I'm away from a computer or notebook, such as on the bus home or something, I always go through expanding characters and plot and sometimes reciting in my head a specific scene as it would be described in the novel
>after going through all this and I think I'm ready I finally get to the keyboard
>"Hell yeah, time to start writing"
>...
>mind goes blank
>force myself to write something, turns out bland as shit
>"oh well, I'll try again tomorrow"
>by the next day I've already thought up a new plot and work on that
>rinse and repeat, ad infitium
Help, how do I rip myself out of this vicious cycle?