/lit/ - Literature

>>10361574
This anon has great taste.

How much of literature, and the Western canon in particular, is compensating for the author's inadequacy, social or otherwise?

Not that I take the faggot seriously, but flipping through On Grammatology, Derrida equates his epistemology to a woman. By attempting to flaunt how much he doesn't care for the tradition, Derrida succumbs to the same try-hard aesthetic that he ostensibly derides. Actively working to overcome the tradition betrays how much Derrida actually cares about academic wank, thus we see only failure in his attempt to ground his philosophy in the negation.

I probably got on this strain of thought from reading too much Pessoa. In a supremely nihilistic sort of view espoused by some of his personas, any action completed is useless and imperfect. Feel free to hijack and write what your favorite poems of his are.