/lit/ - Literature

>>19298827
i have a theory that the world is so ugly and well-greased these days that it turns people off from things like literature. it has no clear place in our time. like even the edgiest, most depraved beckett or burroughs or piss-soaked bataille piece is more beautiful as a piece of art than the modern identikit novel about depressed young person x in big city y who 'scrolls twitter' on their 'phone' and 'interns' at company z, etc. plus, our day-to-day reality is so bogged down by brands and recycled popular culture (in a way it wasn't only 50-60 years ago) that typing many things out just seems absurd and just doesn't scan as literature, but writing *around* them makes you look like a coward and/or a pseud. it's an impossible situation. maybe i'm just a crank