/lit/ - Literature

>>22043404
literally me

The obsolescence of literature weighs on my mind every time I read. What were once considered some of the finest works of art in history are now barely read. Readership today is dominated by YA fiction, mediocre nonfiction books and self-help grifting. Was the novel format destined to be replaced, meaning that classic works of literature are not actually as good as we think?

What are the best novels written in the 21st century? Has there even been a major novel that was popular around the world because of literary merit?

>>19114098
>Personhood is required because without it there is no connection to the divine
What an arbitrary premise. Infact, this entire thread is contrived and capricious. This is what happens when a person sees the world through a book, and molds everything they see in the world according to a book.

>had exactly the same sexual development as Mishima down to the same Saint Sebastian fantasies
>can't fucking stand ""gay culture"" and effeminate, simpering, lisping, disease riddled faggots who take all that I love (i.e. the purity and nobility of masculinity) and corrupt it into some eldritch mockery of itself
>don't date or have sex because of this
Well, at least I'll never get AIDS and there's always lifting.

>>18035045
It's called admiring and being inspired by somebody. Nigga I've literally had sex with men and I still think you're projecting.

>>9541350
>Strindberg
>doesn't give a book title

Now I'm serious.

>though it does sporadically penetrate how unacceptable some of what I’m doing actually is, I just remind myself that this thing, this girl, this meat, is nothing, is shit


what did he MEEEEAAAAN by this?

>>7909085

It's very good, very funny, but should be half the size it is. When you will read it, remember you can skip the details or the clothes, even Ellis itself say once you understand that part of Bateman you can skip it through.