/lit/ - Literature

>>7135495
/pol/ plz go

and kill yourself

>>7135500
You did not answer my question, neither did you provide counterexamples against my basic assumption.

>>7135495
fuck off /pol/ this board is about literature

ayyyyyyyyyyyy

>>7135500
>>7135562

But he's right....

>>7135582
Maybe he is, maybe he is not, but this board is about literature

>>7135584
And what is my post about? It's about how the political inclinations of a writer can affect his writing. It is about literature.

>>7135495
They're not, but where they have an edge is in observing human nature and the ways it's molded and used by society. "Progressive" writers tend to take a less holistic view of human psychology and just bash on the uglier facets.

Conservative here. You're simply wrong OP. The only good (contemporary) artists are far leftists.

>>7135562
Except for the ten fucking marx threads created every single day.

Stop being so hypocritical.

Joyce?

>>7135685
most of those are anti-marx and I report them all regardless

Does anyone else find it hilarious that this yank from Mark Twain country tried to become a brit?

Wrong. I met pinecone at an International Marxist Conference. Well, the nematic said pinecone, it might not be Pynchon

>>7135495
Are you suggesting an airport novelist like Tom Clancy was a great writer because he's also conservative?

>>7135495
Necessity. They have to try harder because their base doesn't like to read.

>>7135495
because the best writers are old

>>7136260
More like dead. And because of the sliding scale of the status quo, the progressives of an earlier era look conservative in a later era.

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>>7135561
Neither did you.

People are more sympathetic to writers that share their worldview.

>>7135997
He was "American Aristocracy" and descended from British people.

>>7136311
> descended from British people.
As was Twain. It's almost like the American were British colonists at one point. What a fatuous post.

Beg pardon?