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What author would you bring back to life?

>> No.11027871

And what would they write about in today's day and age?

>> No.11027879

>>11027865
Kafka

>> No.11027884

>>11027879
he'd just die again. Diseases are part of you dude. If we brought DFW back to life he'd drive straight to Home Depot to buy another rope

>> No.11027890

Valerie Solanas

>> No.11027895

>>11027884
Then lets assume you brought them back like 20 years before they died or whatever.

>> No.11027904

Bob Dylan lol

>> No.11027956

Any of the great ancient wise men, excluding the Christians. I would like to see what they make of the modern world, how they cope with it, what becomes of them.
I exclude the Christians because it's easy for them, as their hope lies entirely in another world.

>> No.11028062

>>11027884
>Diseases are part of you dude.

What, no they're not. TB barely even exists anymore

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>>11027865
RAW

I'd also like to see what Hitchens would make of Drumpf.

Yes, I know I'm pleb.

>> No.11028102

>>11027865
I'd really want to hear what Nietzsche would say about ww2 and the modern world, what Marx would say about it as well, and same with Hegel. I'd like to hear what Aristotle would say about modern physics. I'd like to bring back de Maistre just to hear him reeeeeeeeeee about the modern world. I'd like to hear Pynchon speak with Joyce. Also Leopardi, he would probably curse me for bringing him back here but whatever. Lenin would be interesting to listen to as well, probably would autistically screech about muh imperialism. Oh, and Shakespeare, God knows what he would do. Also dialogues between important figures would be interesting as hell, Aristotle/Hume, Plato/Nietzsche, Deleuze/Nietzsche, Adorno/Marx, Hegel/Zizek (this one would be a shitfest), Foucault/Nietzsche, Heidegger/Aristotle.

>> No.11028162

>>11027865
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
STOP
POSTING
JIZZABELS

>> No.11028171

>>11028102
This
Nietzsche hands down
Whatever you think of him, he was an astute observer of culture

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i wish original pynchon was still alive

>> No.11028246

Unironically, Sebald. I wouldn't want to bring back an author not of our time. But Sebald should have been writing great books right now.

>> No.11028252

>>11028245
M&D is great, and even AtD has a brilliant 500 page book buried somewhere in it.

>> No.11028260

Bolano
Want more of that

>> No.11028352

>>11027865
Dostoevsky all other answer are irrelevant

>> No.11028361

>>11028102
Zizek and hegel ahah, mein gott, would be so good

>> No.11028367

>>11028246
meh desu I think Sebald had already peaked, he wrote 3 genius novels but I highly doubt after Austerlitz he had more novels to 1-up his game, could be wrong ofc, we'll never know.

>> No.11028395

>>11027865
Shakespeare.

I would give almost anything to follow him around while he shits on modern humanity and roasts us, then alternately reveals the deepest truths of human experience known to man. That would actually make a good novel but you would need an incredibly intelligent and literary author to do him justice.

>> No.11028493

>>11027879
Yeah, that would be great... especially interesting to know what he'd write today

>> No.11028504

David Foster Wallace, he'll have a lot of material to write with now. Plus, you know he'll make an appearance on /lit/.

>> No.11028610

>>11027865
Imagine the smellz haha

>> No.11028671

>>11027865
Damn boi whoodat wit da big ass

>> No.11028795

>>11027865
Sam Harris

>> No.11028813

jesus

>> No.11028842

>>11027879
This. And then throw him in a South American prison while speaking a garbled mix of Brazilian Portuguese and unintelligible Spanish.

>> No.11028915

Plath. Not sorry

>> No.11028951

Bolaño! Goddammit. I never met him nor knew about him while he was alive but somehow I miss him.

>> No.11028970

Isidore Lucien Ducasse

>> No.11029030

Not Dante: the Commedia would have been his masterpiece anyway.

Keats, on the other hand... Keats, on the other hand!

>> No.11029033

>>11027884
Why does there always have to be somebody that responds to hypotheticals like this?

>> No.11029036

>>11028842
If this is a reference to something, I'd like to know what.

>> No.11029037

>>11028970
Damn. Can't imagine what he had left to do. But if just for the hell of it: Emily Dickinson.

>> No.11029053

>>11027865
Who is the hottest female author? Probably her. You think she’d fuck me if I brought her back to life?

>> No.11029071

>Flaubert
>Maupassant
>Pushkin
Fuck its a hard choice

>> No.11029103

John Milton and keep him on life support until he rewrites the whole Bible.

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I'd like to see how Fernando Pessoa assumes that his art has transcended.

>> No.11029151

>>11029103
and maybe pop him some hallucinogenics for creativity.

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It would be funny to see him do a reddit AMA and how he handles his #MeToo.

>> No.11029171

>>11028395
>Good friend for Jesus sake forbear, To dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, And cursed be he that moves my bones.

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>>11029164
The first thing he ought to do is buy one of these bad boys.

>> No.11029176

Even though there are many greater writers to choose from, we deserve to see the late phase of David Foster Wallace (some of us deserve)

>> No.11029192

Homeros

We'd force him to publish a modern version of the iliad/odyssey

>> No.11029201

>>11027865
Anne Frank

>> No.11029204

>>11029192
>>11028395
>>11028352
>>11028102
these

Schopenhauer
Montaigne
Plato

>> No.11029229

>>11029201
Why?

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11029241

Joyce is the only correct answer. Modern medicine would keep him alive longer and since Finnegans wake is behind him he can focus on something less serious like another dubliners or ulysses.

>> No.11029270

h p lovecraft, modern horror is shock gore trash

>> No.11029279

>>11029270
I don't get lovecrafts appeal, you can only describe how indescribable something is so many times

>> No.11029287

>>11029270
Read At the Mountains of Madness. That novella is very descriptive.

>> No.11029296

>>11029287
Meant for:
>>11029279

>> No.11029300

>>11029229
I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine

>> No.11029310

>>11029270
It would also be fun to hear him sperg on about modern politics. That would be a beautiful shitshow.

>> No.11029311

>>11029279
Not a big fan of his writing though I like his ideas for being incredibly original of the time. However I see the appeal, the dude is easy to identify with especially on this site. Let me break it down:
>lived with his mother until her death
>virgin until 35
>racist and hated Jews vehemently
>obsessed with scifi, fantasy, and other forms of escapism
>ended up marrying a Jewess who was 8 years older than him
>ended up poor, living off crackers and mayonnaise until he died.

>> No.11029337

>>11029311
Sounds like the whitest person who ever lived

>> No.11029365

>>11027865
I want DFW back and for him to write a 200 page reportage on going to E3.

>> No.11029376

>>11027890
Maybe she'd figure out how to shoot straight this time.

>> No.11029387

Frank Zappa

>> No.11029391

>>11029365
Hahaha Consider the Autist

>> No.11029403

>>11027865
Nietzsche or Heidegger, though it would be fantastic if Spengler could see Trump and Putin, and also if he could've seen the fall of the Third Reich and the rise of Anglo-ZOG

>> No.11029405

>>11029391
I just want an in-depth meditation on man-childism.

>> No.11029632

>>11029405
He was one

>> No.11029644
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11029644

Arthur Schopenhauer, just to piss him off

>> No.11029651

>>11027865
is this ghost hunters chick?

>> No.11029729

Probably DH Lawrence.
I just remember how appalled he was by the radio in Lady Chatterlys Lover. I cant wait to hear what he thinks of blacked.com

>> No.11030043

>>11029651
she's pale enough to be a ghost herself. You white folks need more sun.

>> No.11030124

my dad

>> No.11030252

None. If God wanted that person to die at that certain time then then die at that time.

>> No.11030310

>>11028813
I think he’s already got it covered

>> No.11030314

>>11030310
He doesn't have a choice anymore, now he has to come back.

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>>11029644

>> No.11030413

Emily Dickinson to marry her

>> No.11030677

>>11029651
>Ghost Hunters

Nigga thats the lil hoe from Gossip Girl

>White People
>In charge of knowing their own shows

smdh, yousa bitch nigga tbqh.

>> No.11030679

>>11027865
Mary Shelley; to tell her good job

>> No.11030694

>>11027956
Take another look at christianity

I recommend john pageau

>> No.11030700

>>11030677
Holy shit dude you don't need to bring race into it. Consciousness has no race or gender, we all think through the ideal.

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11030713

Sylvia Plath, just get her a prescription for Alprazolam and Cannabis

>> No.11030815

hitler desu

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>>11027865
Frank Herbert. he could publicly disown the Dune prequels and then i'd force him to write a sequel to The Dosadi Experiment.

>> No.11030861

>>11028100
THIS. and keep him alive until he finishes the fourth book of the Historical Illuminatus .. er.. trilogy.

>> No.11030867

>>11030679
and then invite her to a weekend long Frankenstein film festival.

>> No.11030895

>>11027865
who is this fluid druid

>> No.11030921

>>11030815
Not cool dude.

>> No.11031035

Kierkegaard

>> No.11031418

>>11029135
>>11029164
would love to kick it with these two and watch pessoa slob on forehead mans knob

>> No.11031486

Goethe

>> No.11031522

>>11028102
He would be a different person boyo

>> No.11031530

Probably Lovecraft.

>>11029300
must admit I love the second track tho

>> No.11031539

Colonel Klink

>> No.11031550

>>11031486
Theres a novella about this by Arno Schmidt where he brings back Goethe to live etc. its kinda funny

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>>11027865
damn gilmore girl done fell off

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>>11029279
Lovecraft is theoretically really interesting. I don't know if he read Kant, but the whole idea behind his epistemological "Copernican revolution" was that our perceiving minds don't conform to external objects (as we assume) — rather, sense-data conform to our minds (or our ways of experiencing, or the form of our understanding).

Think of it like an ice-cube tray: you can put water and make ice, put coffee and make coffee-cubes, or put in vodka and make Jello-shots. The different liquids are the sensory data, but they all conform to our means of understanding (the tray). In all cases, there has to be a linkage between what we perceive (or see) and what we conceptualize.

But, supposing there's not such a linkage? That's what Lovecraft was after: a human encounter with something so terrifying and beyond our comprehension, we are unable to link our sense-data with our form of understanding. I think that is truly terrifying, a kind of mental paralysis. I don't think Lovecraft's writing was very evocative, but it is damn interesting philosophically.

>> No.11032343

c h u c k t i n g l e
i s
g l o w b u g

>> No.11032759

>>11030043
Bruh, I give her dat vitimin D know what I'm sayin

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>>11030124
Sorry anon.

>> No.11032812

>>11030043
Some people don't tan.

>> No.11032820

>>11030867
Mary Shelly probably wouldn't like most adaptations of Frankenstein. They tend to miss the entire point of her story by making the monster legitimately subhuman.

>> No.11033445

>>11027879
i don't really think there is any other author who could fit the times as well as kafka could

>> No.11033534

Borges and then I would introduce him to Wikipedia or Twine and see what he could come up with

>> No.11033544

>>11027865
Tolkien. He needs to see the hobbit movies, and that new Amazon show. He needs to stop them.

>> No.11033658

>>11030320
>and he thought you were wrong about pretty much everything
I want to hug Schopenhauer

>> No.11033954

Is it even a question? Nabokov

>> No.11034143

>>11029164
he wouldn’t publish anything

>> No.11034149

>>11033954
If he could write Ada at 70 imagine what he could write at 120

>> No.11035421

>>11027865
I would love to make more Gilmore girls with her.

>> No.11035481

>>11030677
Isn't it the girl from Gilmore Girls?

>> No.11035503

>>11035481
There were actually two girls, therefore Gilmore Girls.

>> No.11035623

>>11029311
>ate crackers and mayonnaise until he died
I want to die in this manner as well.

>> No.11035646

I just got done reading about lovecraft and dude had to have some sort of autism. Lovecraft literally started a fight shitposting in the back of magazines letter section. He would have totally been one of us. Shitposting on lit

Both of his parents had psychotic break downs and died. His mom was over protective.
He regularly skipped school because he didnt like going outside and didnt like people looking at him.

Honestly, marrying a rich jewess was a smart move for him. She cooked and payed for everything and he could just write all day. Until she lost all her money and he had to go back to being a poorfag.