/lit/ - Literature

>having second cup of coffee right now
>put coconut oil in it for some healthy fat, plus a richer texture

Would it be possible to just resurrect old styles like romantic realism and high modernism, and write philosophically dense and "sincere" novels?

I was reading DFW's essay on TV, E Unibus Pluram, and he was talking about how DeLillo and some other pomo author had already done the self-aware late capitalist irony trope to death by the early 90s. So that was a dead horse already by then. But all that's been done otherwise since those days is "confessional" New York alt lit nepotism garbage like Tao Lin, the same muted suburban Americana shit like Franzen, and dime store identity politics shit that sells on how much of a freak the protagonist is and not on the actual content of the book.

Why not bring back writing with lots of research and erudition behind it, but NOT aimed at showing how blase and postmodern post-everything you are? Sincere social critique, sincere weltschmerz, sincere calls to action.

Why isn't there more stuff like Houellebecq, from more and different perspectives? Where are the modern Balzacs and Manns?

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