/lit/ - Literature

>>18114384
Fucking kek and saved.

>>11565783
What draws me most to Mishima is the stark distinction that still remains in his attitude towards life between real aristocracy vs upstarts/inferiors. It's something that's completely absent in almost all of European lit, where they go out of their way to paint the aristocrats as the bad guys and the poor as suffering souls that need Christ. It's all so tiresome. There is none of that hatred towards humanity to be found in Mishima's works, just a love of beauty and of performing in life to the fullest under those standards, which is why acknowledging some as inferior and unworthy is necessary.
>As Iinuma stood before him with bowed head, the chest hair escaping from the neck of his blue kimono glistened faintly, caught in a ray of the evening sun. Kiyoaki stared gloomily at this matted tangle, depressed at the realization of what a distastefully coarse and heavy vessel Iinuma’s flesh made for his overpowering spirit of loyalty. It was, in fact, a direct physical affront. Even the glow on Iinuma’s rough-skinned, pimpled cheeks, mottled and unhealthy as it was, had something shameless about it that seemed to taunt Kiyoaki with Miné’s devotion—Miné who was leaving with Iinuma, ready to share his fate. Nothing could be more insulting: the young master betrayed by a woman and left to grieve; the retainer believing in a woman’s fidelity and going off triumphant. Iinuma, moreover, was quite secure in the conviction that today’s farewell had come about in the line of duty—a presumption that Kiyoaki found galling.

Great example of that. Anyway, I personally find Murakami disgustingly bad. Everything I've read from him is trash. NISIOISIN is unironically a superior author, and he's essentially writing a fucking harem light novel. Only the sort of trash underage retards that linger on this board the hopes of becoming great literary figures when they have the minds of brainlets enjoy Murakami. Or basedboys. And women, of course, but they're all born retarded.

ITT: we create phrases that have never been posted in /lit/ before.
Maybe you can use them in your writing!

"depressive optimist"