/lit/ - Literature

>author killed himself because he was scared of getting older and dying from something he had no control over

Why are boomers unironic? Look at youtube videos by millenials and they are vastly different generally from what boomers produced decades ago.

Eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz6C0Z99OOI

>>11545131
No.

David Foster Wallace in his interview about irony and how the culture is becoming more and more dishonest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2doZROwdte4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggtt7cODZd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft4YT80XgHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39UJuPogwiY

On the autobiographical extent of The Broom of the System
>the sensitive tale of a sensitive young WASP who's just had this midlife crisis that’s moved him from coldly cerebral analytic math to a coldly cerebral take on fiction... which also shifted his existential dread from a fear that he was just a 98.6°F calculating machine to a fear that he was nothing but a linguistic construct.

On the note of the OP and in light of this quote and its context, is there anyone with a background of understanding different thinking styles that can elaborate on this?

>I just love helping people find themselves, I guess that's why they say I'm pro-found

Wtf did he mean by this?

Was he part of the New Sincerity movement?

"§(29). Sarcasm a s an expression of transition among historicists. In
an article by Bonaventura Tecchi, "Il Demiurgo di Burzio" (Italia Letteraria,
October 20, 1929 ), from which the above cited passage by Burzio is
taken, 1 the element of "irony" is often mentioned as characteristic of this
position. "Irony" is appropriate in literature to indicate the detachment of
the artist from the sentimental content of his creation; but in the case of
historical action, the element of "irony" would be, precisely, excessively
literary (it would suffice to say simply "literary") and would indicate a
form of detachment connected, rather, to a somewhat amateurish skepticism
(caused by disillusion, weariness, or even a "superman" complex).
Instead, the characteristic element in this case (namely, in historicalaction) is "sarcasm" of a certain form, that is "passionate. " In Marx we
find the highest expression, even esthetically, of "passionate sarcasm. " To
be distinguished from other forms, whose content is the opposite to that
of Marx. In the face of popular "illusions" (belief in justice, equality,
fraternity, that is, in the elements of the "religion of humanity"), Marx
expresses himself with a passionately "positive sarcasm; " that is, one
understands that he wants to mock not the most intimate feeling of those
"illusions" but their contingent form whic):l is linked to a particular
"perishable" world, their cadaverous smell, so to speak, that leaks from
behind the painted facade. There is, on the other hand, "right-wing"
sarcasm which is rarely passionate but is always "negative, " purely destructive
not only of the contingent "form " but of the "human " content
of those sentiments. (For the meaning of "human" in this instance, see
Marx himself, especially the Holy Family. )2 Marx tries to give new form
to certain aspirations (hence he even tries to regenerate these aspirations )
not to destroy them : right-wing sarcasm tries, instead, to destroy precisely
the content of these aspirations and, in the end, the attack on their form
is nothing but a "didactic" device. -

>"I was frantically chasing his ex-girlfriend. He was married by this time, and he knew me as the guy who like basically just not taking no for an answer from his girlfriend."

WHAT THE F**K!?!?

David Wallace was in on this too?

#NoMeansNo

Just started reading, still very early in. He seems to tell everyone that he is a human being, with a little condescension in there. Everyone looks at him in disgust and he is dragged down to the floor, face first. Is there something im missing? Was it solely because of his condescension?

DFW BTFO???

http://www.cosmoetica.com/B1349-JH1.htm

Hi guys. Is there a book equivalent of Letterboxd?

Like Letterboxd but for books

*smokes weed to slowly but permanently kill his ability to understand hegel so the path-blocking and un-unblocking become non-issues*