/lit/ - Literature

>>3860423
What is the value of a dust-speck's opinion to the collocate of the universe?

Celine, maybe.

If Celine, then Hamsun.
Joyce.
Rimbaud.
Kafka.
Swift.

All edgier with more influence than Camus.

>merit

Celine wasn't really edgy. You'd think someone who was edgy writing about WWI would spend ages on the topic, turning it into some tragic event with damning exposes of how futile war is. He spends less than 10 pages in Journey on the war itself, and the next 20 or so detailing how fun it was to get free pity fucks for playing up his war wound.
Not really edgy at all. Unless you're referring to his Jew-scapades later on.

Comte de Lautréamont.

Super edgy, but Maldoror does have legit literary value.

>I sought a soul that might resemble mine, and I could not find it. I scanned all the crannies of the earth: my perseverance was useless. Yet I could not remain alone. There had to be someone who would approve of my character; there had to be someone with the same ideas as myself. It was morning. The sun in all his magnificence rose on the horizon, and behold, there also appeared before my eyes a young man whose presence made flowers grow as he passed. He approached me and held out his hand: “I have come to you, you who seek me. Let us give thanks for this happy day.” But I replied: “Go! I did not summon you. I do not need your friendship… .”

>>3860476
Edgier than a guillotine.

>>3860451
But Camus in pic related actually tries to look edgy.

Joyce was an old irish guy who wore circular glasses and got dominated by his wife in bed. Kafka was afraid of his own shadow and thought almost everything he wrote was shit.

>>3860544
like finnegans wake isn't trying to be edgy.
>a work of comic prose by Irish writer James Joyce, significant for its experimental style and resulting reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the English language
joyce tried ten times harder than camus

kafka figures his victims are worthy of being bugged and tried when they're usually pretty shit. hoping that the man comes for you because it gives you a sense of import if not purpose probably is more tryhard so i'll concede him. (kafka introduced a lot more ideas to the mainstream than joyce in balance)

I don't personally enjoy his literature, but the answer is obviously Sade.

Georges Bataille and Jean Genet are pretty good choices too. Those frenchmen and their edges.

The use of the word edgy really demeans any literary discourse.

Marquis de Sade tried so hard to be egdy he wasn't in the slightest...

Which makes him egdy.

Marquis de Sade.

>>3860569
Sylvia Plath, if that's the case.

>>3860568

How bout u get demeaned by #DeezNutz faggot

>>3860423
Pynchon, duh.

>>3860423
>in the way of actual ideas.
such as?

I'm sure you're a literary genius.

>edgy
At first I thought you were actually using this word correctly/as a valediction of Camus. But you now I realize you probably vote Republican.

I didn't know /mu/ was interested in literature.

>>3860451
>dismissing critically acclaimed authors whose texts have inspired and delighted millions as "edgy"

That's pretty edgy brah.

How the hell is Camus edgy? Certainly not in his writing. Is it because he smoked cigarettes and was in the Resistance?

>>3860580

>But you now I realize you probably vote Republican.

Look out, this edgy guy is bringing up politics for no reason.

These are some serious #ShotsFired

>>3860585
i only dislike joyce and kafka. i like to think all of them knew they were being edgy.

ludwig von mises

>>3860597
oh u dislike me huh

wow that makes u so unique. like a snowflak. so edgy.

>>3860605
it's okay. you dislike you too.

>>3860608

>>3860587
It's because of the highschool kids who think they're oh-so-cool by having read his material.

>>3860614
So this thread is all focused on social perception? Meaning that this isn't /lit/ but /soc/?

>>3860645
You gotta take the good with the bad, sometimes.

>>3860568
wha tthe hell is even being discussed in this

>>3860423
There is no substance to existentialism that's the point it's finding substance when there is no absolutes. It takes a specific kind of willful suspension of disbelief to be a happy existentialist.

>>3860544
>But Camus in pic related actually tries to look edgy.
Rimbaud smoked his pipe upside down to be different, wrote 'merde a dieu' on walls and threw his lice at priests. Camus isn't even trying.

>>3860423
H.P LoveCraft

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