/lit/ - Literature

>>16443017
Perhaps, though I would be more inclined to think my humanist tendencies have just prevented me from finding any value in the political by itself as of yet

>>15901603
Based, I read the last tycoon as well. Probably would have been his best book along with his debut if he had finished it.

Picture of dorian gray
The last tycoon
The waste land and other poems
A Christmas Carol
The Delicate Prey - Paul Bowles
The Waste Land (Essays)
Lost Lunar Baedecker - Mina Loy
A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard - Paul Bowles
Time of Friendship - Paul Bowles
Things Gone and Still Here - Paul Bowles
Americana - Dellilo
Midnight Mass - Paul Bowles
Mere Christianity
Too Far From Home - Paul Bowles
Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue - Paul Bowles
Up Above the World - Paul Bowles
The Plague

The notion that art in general, and literature specifically, could be nothing more than an aesthetic endeavor terrifies me more than almost anything I could imagine. A book like Lolita, for me, is filled with meaning, psychology, and a variety of matters related to the human spirit. The idea that its purpose of creation, and its manifestation, could simply be a work of beautiful language (as Nabokov insisted his works were) inspires in me a feeling not unlike a black hole, and produces a fear that reminds me of the fear of death itself.

>>13734212
Chirico