/lit/ - Literature

>>14017136
The next great mind isn't accredited enough for lit to recognize him. Give it 20 years and then suddenly a bunch of authors from this time period will be praised on here because lit was told to like them.

>>14017136
There's still Nick Land.

>Toni Morrison is dead
So?

>>14017136
Hey there.

>>14017136
Don Delillo isn't dead.

>>14017202
hey buddy,

>>14017136
>>Harold Bloom is dead
God it hurts.

>>14017398
The Holocaust takes more souls every day.

>>14017421
Bloom was responsible for introducing more people to the great works of the Western canon than any alt-right meme has been or ever will be.

>>14017427
>be the greatest mind of your generation
>the Holocaust gets you anyways

>>14017391
You posted here, you get shit.

>>14017136
>Gene Wolfe is dead
I wish I had written him a letter desu

>>14017136
>>DFW is dead
Won't ever read because of his fans
>>Phillip Roth is dead
Same but 10x more
>>Don Delillo is dead
Who?
>>Harold Bloom is dead
Who?
>>Gene Wolfe is dead
Sucked
>>Toni Morrison is dead
Who
>>Pynchon
Crying of Lot Shitty Nine
>> and McCarthy both have one foot in the grave
I will be deeply sad when McCarthy goes

>>14017385
What the fuck? I could have sworn he died earlier this year.

>>14017508
Not from the list, but I moved nearby to my favorite author - completely unknown to myself. By the time I realized where he was living, he had already died.

>>14017576
You sound like the typical corn consumer. Neck yourself while the barn's still standing, flyover

>>14017136
>>Gene Wolfe is dead

What the fuck is with the giant boner here for this writer? I tried his book that /lit/ spruiks all the time, and it's the kind of shit that edgy teenagers love.

Daniel Johnston is dead

>>14017576
Philip Roth has fans? Where?

>>14018007
fuck it's true

It falls to us now

Don't worry anon, literature is saved

>>14017136
Fuck you really scared me with the DeLillo bit. Still kicking thankfully.

>>14018017
Roth may have some readers left, but he doesn't have fedora-tipping fanboys like DFW does.

An example of what will likely happen with Roth is what's happened to Bellow: Over a decade since his death, Bellow is still 'known', but hardly read by anyone; give it another decade and he may be virtually forgotten. And Bellow was twice the writer that Roth was.

>>14018164
Both Bellow and Roth were shit writers because they were semites and semites are shit writers. That's the reason nobody cares about them besides jews, and both are inapt for being introduced into the youth brainwashing curriculum like Kafka and Salinger, so you can't create a fake institutional aura around them to fool whites into believing they were good writers.

>>14017199
He's braindead.

>>14018137
i like to imagine he had gay sex just to see if he would like it even though he was not attracted to guys anyway

>>14018563
I have a friend who did that.
Needless to say he discovered he wasn't homo and didn't try again.

>>14017136
>>Harold Bloom is dead
IS there any archive of his whole "western canon".
Where I can find more of his "western canon" thing?
Links and sauces please.

>bunch of Amerilards
Who cares.

>>14017136
>Socrates is dead
>Christ is dead
>Ludvig XVI is dead
>Nicholas II is dead
>Hitler is dead
See the long term. A meat puppet dying is hardly the most impactful or even meaningful aspect of them.

>>14018017
East Coast Jewish Boomers

>>14018573
>a friend
It's ok, you're anonymous here.