/lit/ - Literature

>>18333982
Me

Typically fanfiction is for your own satisfaction

>>18333982
Who does anyone write for.

>>18333982
Books back then cost like a year's income so he didn't have to sell too many.

>>18333982
For literature's sake.

There were public recitations. You didn't need to be able to read.

>>18334013
Those were the days, eh.

>>18333982
poets could mantain themselves from the patronage of nobles and they were writing mainly for them. Bourdieu kinda tackles this in some of his texts you could give him a read.

>>18333982
For the happy few

>>18333982
literal fan fiction to get back at corrupt politicians.

>>18333982
God

>>18334198
kek

>>18333982
be real senpai, just because lieracy rates are much higher, no more than 2% of people read decent literature

>>18334376
This. The Comedy is for God. Dante deserves to be a saint.

>>18333982
Borges, Pound, Joyce, Beckett, Baudelaire, Boccaccio, Petrarca, Michelangelo, Dore...
In short: for the great readers and artists of the future.
Serious writers write for very few people. It's only with time that they become widely read.

>>18333982
The rhetorical tradition was something universal before the 20th century.

Plebs would hear about Dante's stories/be read them.

>>18334376
>>18335018
Completely.

>>18333982
his diary desu

>>18333982
Do you not realize that literally the whole world had less than 10% literacy before the 20th century. Do you not realize your question could apply to literally every piece of literature written before the modern era?

Did you even think for 15 seconds before you posted this thread you fukken nigger OP?

>>18333982
The Almighty aka the DEVIL

>>18334013
Ducking awesome

>>18333982
His friends, his peers, God, himself, and posterity.
On an unrelated note, when did the fetishization of the masses become so powerful that people can no longer comprehend writing for a narrow audience?

>>18333982
According to Franco Sacchetti, a contemporary of Dante, even blacksmiths could recite passages from the Divine comedy from memory. Literacy rates were much higher than that, especially in Italy, were there was communal rule in the cities, plus many poems and literary masterpieces were read publicly.

>>18335823
My bad, Sacchetti wasn't a contemporary of his, but report sources that are contemporary to Dante, plus even Boccaccio reported something similar.

>>18333982
about 10% of europe prolly

>>18333982
>Europe only had like <10% literacy rates
Still the case to be quite honest, how many could understand Dante today?

>>18334019
Audio books

>>18334013
Montecristo cigars got their name from the novel being read to the cigar rollers.

>>18333982
Do 10% of people today even regularly books?

>>18335053
What's the difference in your opinion? What separates the great writers from the chaff, outside of their legacy and impact of course

>>18335997
That's really cool, thanks Anon.

The elite.

>>18333995
fpbp