/lit/ - Literature

>>8884855
xD
You like to think of yourself as an misunderstood self-conscious outcast from the consumerist blah blah society, don't you? So does half of this board (me included)! Try to develop some substantial relation with some other people for more than a year without any assumptions. That's always a good starting point.

>>8849331
I have read 5 of his books. His autobiography and My Prizes wait yet to be read (I don't expect too much, though). I'd rate them as
The Losers >> Gargoyles >= Correction >> Extinction > Old Masters.

I read The Losers in a period when I was struggling with depression and the impostor syndrome and I almost killed myself because of it. Not a good timing, but it was really insightful.
Same with Gargoyles, I still remember some of his narration about the crazy prince, and my god this opening with the Pascal's quote, " The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me" - I still have goosebumps every time I read it.
Sometimes I dream about being a perfect ball just rolling and thinking without all these humiliating human desires and needs that one needs to satisfy to remain sane at least to some extent, so the story of the cone's architect from Correction was very relatable. Idk why, but this one always reminds me also Krasznahorkai's Satantango.

>>8750675