/lit/ - Literature

>>18882620
Seeing this video after reading all the Waldun threads the last weeks feels surreal. The stark contrast between the exposed plot holes, misattributed quotes, rehashed lines, and general critique in these threads, compared to the process he describes in his video is almost too much. Hearing him talk about how he wrote five complete drafts before submitting the story to a team (!) of editors, how his confirmed partner of the female gender couldn't put it down even after hours of reading, his reflections on how naive and overconfident he was in his ability back when he was a young man (kek) compared to today and so on and so on.

It was with a bittersweet smile that I finished watching this video. The whole obsession with Waldun might be one of the funniest online inside jokes I have ever come across, yet a part of me feels sorry for the naive Waldun who only after six months of doubt dared to publish L'Académie. An emotional pyrrhic victory, if you will.

All of this makes me wonder if the L'Académie in itself isn't the complete work, but rather that the entire sphere that surrounds it with youtube videos, /lit/ discussions threads and so on can be seen as what Bourriaud would have called "Relational Art". What do you think, fellow scholars?