/lit/ - Literature

How do I become an author?

>>9323903
Kafkaesque books.

>>8937655
Read Kafka's short stories and Edgar Allen Poe's. Do this and you'll stop being a pleb.

>>8879116
Sometimes I poop then wipe but there is no poop on the toilet paper. I must look in the bowl to confirm my refuse. Despite knowing there is no more poop on my skin I still feel unclean all day. That is what it means to be Kafkaesque.

>>8844139
dumb frogposter

We're living in a Romantic period of literature. What is the most common type of novel sold and made in the USA? Romance novels, mostly for women. Readers today mostly enjoy reading self insert fantasy fiction. People want to be rescued from the awfulness of reality and turn to escapism.

The most awful examples of film, music, and literature are fantasies where people can burrow into and hide from reality. Many people killed themselves after watching the film Avatar because it seemed so much nicer to their own lives. There is also a global epidemic of opiods sweeping the Western and Eastern world, the drug of choice for people who want to leave reality. In the USA the highest concentrations of opiod users are in MidWest regions with that have been hit hardest by the economic decisions of the late 20th century.

And what is the latest Coastal trend in media? Virtual Reality and being a wageslave.

Who is writing about this?

Novels that are very graceful and pleasant. Sort of like Swann's Way but that aren't French.

I read A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde with this intent but it's not even close. The writing is too contrived. Recommend me novels that are elegant and impressive.

My favorite authors so far are: Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Philip K. Dick, and Stephen King.

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