/lit/ - Literature

>>13497190
Shestov has this quality that all my favorite thinkers and writers share: he's a fire that's learned to burn in a vacuum. His idea of God exists in spite of Necessity, suffering, death, etc. and not because of it (as a coping mechanism). Every author I recommended to you is the same way.

I don't remember if it was even in Athens and Jerusalem, but that line about "what are all the mathematical formulas of the world to one cry of torment" or whatever it was, him and all these writers are their own species of Occam's Razor, they shear the fat and get down to what matters: pain, darkness, silence, but also a faith that recognizes that silence as its own constitutive condition and not something to be kept at bay at all costs (until one very dark night you get a sort of flash of intuition about how that faith, too, is a lie, as you approach the absolute terror of the void like an asymptote, beyond which not even Nietzsche himself could endure, beyond which only the "forsaken solitude" of death can take you. Enjoy!)

Who are some other authors like Houellebecq, Linkola, and (I'm assuming) Bernhard? Sharp, articulate men who are deeply disillusioned with modern life?

>>13405299
And that'll be the day you die.