/lit/ - Literature

I know this is more of a /his/ thread but I wanted to survey /lit/'s opinion on another medium.

After that Ulysses hate thread I just have to ask, why does /lit/ hate modernism so much? Does its difficulty make you feel like a brainlet? Don't tell me you fell for the
>but it's too pretentious
>muh dont understand it, must be meaningless
meme.

>everything is good
>everyone is happy
Doesn't sound like something you could write 300 pages about.
Still, check out pastoral literature. It was a genre founded by Jacopo Sanazzaro, who wrote "Arcadia". From that genre I have read only one work, a drama ("Dubravka" by Ivan Gundulić). It was pretty boring, as expected. And, though the story takes place in a utopia, a war is ongoing outside of the borders of the land and injustice within the utopia kicks off the narrative.

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This is stupid and wrong. Pic related.

Epicurus says yes, hell yes. Nietzsche too

Onfray's new book talks about this I think
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/a-hedonist-manifesto/9780231171267

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