/lit/ - Literature

>>17036503
There's no way he wrote that many books.

>>17036503
no TV, no phone, no job other than to write all day.

Yeah, it's perfectly possible to write this much. Isaac Asimov was similarly also very prolific.

But not everything he wrote was genius, of course. Other than Candide, Zadig, Micromegas, and the Philosophical Dictionary, most of his stuff has not been remembered, except for people who actively search for it and really like Voltaire.

>>17036516
you just envy him

>>17036503
Unfortunately he was a retard, such is life.

>>17036593
Agreed, I'd maybe expand the list a little bit more but not much. Still 2,000 books feels like a lot.

>>17036503
>more than 20,000 letters

Wow, how many shitposts have I made in my 15 years stuck on this god forsaken british tea manufacturing forum?

>>17036503
Copious amounts of coffee

>>17037886
Too many I'd wager. But not as many as Butters.

if those books were mostly 20 pages long that explains it

>>17037893
I'm starting to think I drink too much coffee. I'm just stuck at home every day.

>>17037921
His complete works are being compiled and released for many decades, the estimate is it will end up with ~200 volumes.

https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/books?field_series_value=1

Each volume is 500 pages on average.

Hyper aggressive autism + interest in philosophy. This is what could happen to many men on /lit/ if they weren't cringingly self-aware.

>>17037973
>annals and history
that explains also why there are so many works, he didn't come up with ideas each day, he just re-elaborated earlier history.

Lack of internet porn and anonymous message boards

when you aren't neutered by kant, you can write about everything you want

>>17036593
/thread/

>>17038040
names?

>>17038056
boileau, 3rd shaftsbury, gravina, home kames , burke, diderot, rousseau, baumgarten, winckelmann

I think it was Seneca who spent a letter shit talking some faggot who had written four thousand books

>>17038083
Only got the French and burke, going to look up the others. Thanks mate.

>>17036503
ghost writers
literally

I read once his writing room had many desks in it and on each one he would keep a particular work he was writing at the time, a comedy, a tragedy, and so on, and when he felt the inclination he would jump from work to work.

Also, lots of coffee I suppose? Not sure how true that is. Maybe someone could chime in with a source.

>>17036503
Divine inspiration despite his beliefs.

>>17036503
And nearly each and every one of those was shit and now forgotten except for candide. Think about it. He wrote 2,000 books yet only one is remembered today. That goes to show much of a piss poor philosopher and playwright he was.

And this dude created so many misconceptions about history that have survived through the ages. The historical inaccuracies he created about the Middle Ages still survives today like prima nocta and fifty gospels myths.

He always looks so smug in his paintings. I wish I could slap that smugness way. I only wish he survived long enough to see the French Revolution so he could have been guillotined. It would have been a fitting end for him.

>>17038693
>I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog, just like a brute. That is his reward!
- Wolfgang Amabasedus Mozart

>>17038757
I never knew Mozart was that based.

>>17036503
Voltaire making many books is similar to Disney studios making many movies: it isn't that impressive when you realize the number of employees. Many of the books he had supposedly written were probably written by others, and passed out under his name, his fame being artificially inflated by decorative advertisement, acting as a center of propaganda propagation. Notice, as a little hint I'll give you, that most of Voltaire's output was work on history. The same was probably true with mr. Asimov, written of >>17036593 , and the same thing no doubt existed in music with Haydn, though you can do your own research on this last part. High output = other writers = propaganda. This is generally true for extremely high output writers (e.g. Stephen King, who "forgot" writing many of his books).

>>17036503
Probably no-fap, cold showers, nootropics, stimulants, this or that special diet.

>>17038693
So he was like Lil B?
Based.

>>17037884
seems like you missed the "and pamphlets" part. most of the 2,000 are not books.

>>17036503
How does he look so smug???

>>17038937
Big dick energy due to his big profilic cock

>>17038833
I don't think it's fair to say that all high output writers are helped by a team of ghost-writers. Editors might have some influence, but the writing itself can (and will be done) by the writer. Voltaire was extraordinary and there were less distractions. It really isn't that remarkable to finish a book. Anyone can finish a book within a month, as long as they keep hitting their regular daily amount.

Voltaire spent time in prison and came out of it having written several plays. What else was he to do there?

There's a stylistic quality to Voltaire, Asimov, and Stephen King, that can't be easily replicated. Just by reading it, you can tell who wrote what texts. Someone passing himself off as Voltaire couldn't have gotten past the French public, who knew Voltaire's style and satire enough to distinguish an authentic text from a forgery.

>>17036503
コーヒー

>>17038937
Showed all the ladies his sufficient reason

>>17038833
Haydn was based don't slander him.

>>17038083
Bottom middle is a drawing of Spinoza and not Baumgarten although it appears when you type Baumgarten into Google Images

PRODIGAL SEED FROM IMPOTENT PRINCIPLES.

>>17041273
Caps lock retard. You have never lived a tough life and you will never be a real woman.

>>17036503
Out of his mind on copious amounts of coffee that probably had effects similar to adderal. + Aggresive autism

He was the prime shitposter of his era. Have you all read Candide? He is one of us. Not the typical soiboy here, but one of the real members of this site.

>>17036503
IS THERE A PICTURE OF HIM WHERE HE ISN'T BEING A SMUG LITTLE SHIT

>>17038833
is that similar to shakespeare?

>>17037893
Surprised no one mentioned the Java factor till now, or Balzac.
>>17039870
A similar principle goes for Haydn, as well as other prolific and long-lived composers, whether they weren't all that good on the whole (Vivaldi) or were (Scarlatti), never mind what scholarship can show about borrowings incorporated into a body of work in a way that bears a definite stamp of personal style or manner (Handel). There's also the matter of developmental phases that while influenced by changes in fashion, are most peculiar to them in prevailing tone or humor--even sense of humor in the case of Haydn. Now I'm trying to imagine how Seneca would dish about the Coffee Cantata, and even as I sip my way to hypergraphia I know there's no hope of mimicry on that level.