/lit/ - Literature

There is no meaning. Just another product of the universe. Maybe there is some meaning to the universe (that is, us), but at least it isn't apparent.

I mean, maybe the end of post-modernism will really just be the end up symbolic art, the end of fiction, etc.

I predict a future where what we today call "art" is really just hyper-true and sincere laments or stories. Visual art will soon only be unaltered photography/video and written art will be actual stories without the nearest thing to a "literary tool."

The world today is vast enough and enigmatic enough to produce all the kinds of stories people once had to make up. And due the technologic growth the imagination capacity of the modern human is diminishing significantly. So even if people were interested in fiction tale, they won't be able to comprehend them.

So, in layman, I don't think post-modernism is the end-all philosophy, I believe the next movement is unbridled honesty and sincerity. That, however, will be the end-all philosophy since by the time that movement would seem to run it's course the technologic growth of our species will abolish our ability to process what we today call "art."

A devolving, if you will.

>>1547251

Indeed.

>>1510387
Postmodern edition.

hello /lit/

I am going to be flying to NYC from Toronto (visiting home for thanksgiving) on wednesday. I need something to read on the flight and while I am at my parents place lazing around. Something that is really brilliant and melancholic would be preferred. preferably a novella. I have been wanting to read some russian lit recently but don't know where to start so perhaps something russian. really I am open to all suggestions, so tell me what to read!

TL;DR:
recommend me a good novella