/lit/ - Literature

My diary desu

>>15607919
The Last Temptation

>>15607919
mon journal desu

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>>15607919
taking the easy way out
>trial of socrates
>the bible

striving for greatness
>the anabasis of alexander
>thus spoke zarathustra

>>15607919
>rather than accepting that we forged a worse one
[citation needed]

>>15607919
Oblomov

>>15608073
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_impact_of_Boomers

>>15608005
I never knew there was a Pessoa Pepe

>>15608231
It's Apu.

>>15608073

>>15608242
disgusting

>>15608242
lol when I first saw it I thought the millennial line was just the x-axis

>>15607919
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Unfortunately, Joyce believed in that 20th century individualist faggotry that led to the 21st century individualist faggotry (Ulysses, in effect, is an admission of such when we observe the consequences of Stephen's choices), but Portrait is along the lines you're looking for. Trying to think of some others in the meantime.
>Look here, Cranly, he said. You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. i will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my chruch: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use--silence, exile, and cunning.
>...
>You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

>>15608423
Sounds excellent anon, ty.

>>15608242
>why aren't you making me any grandkids reee

>>15608505
np anon. I also thought of another (if you don't mind these examples being of artists, specifically, deciding whether to strive for greatness or take the easy way out).
This Side of Paradise by Fitzgerald
Not his best work--it'll seem dry if you have contemporary tastes--but it has your theme and it was written when Fitzgerald himself was struggling with the exact problem (he wrote the novel following a three month booze binge after Zelda dumped him, hoping that getting published would win her back).

>>15608063
This.
Thus Spake Zarathustra is what you need, OP.

>>15608212
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>>15608541
Hating boomers is peak reddit. Boomers are, undeniably, the greatest generation and have done more net good than any other generation.

>>15609101
T.

>>15609101
Based

>>15609192
Holy shit, this can't be real.

>>15607919
Wasn't that the point of Ayn Rand's novels?

>>15609197
It's very real.

>>15609197
http://archive.fo/25UFb

>>15609218
Can you just imagine 60-year old something Karens spamming racial slurs to curious passersby