/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12105386]

What's the purpose of fiction? Like what was the point of writting "Crime and Punishment". Jesus dude, if you want to say some bullshit about christianity just come up and say it to my face, I don't care about these nonexsistant "characters" I forget about them the next week.
Seriously the more "classics" I read the more I think that fiction writing is just a crutch for dumb people who can't into real philosophy.

Thoughts?

[Anonymous No.12105391]

>>12105386
You have autism

[Anonymous No.12105396]

>>12105386
Fiction was entertainment like the video games of the present. Most people who read them didn't care about any hidden meanings.

[Anonymous No.12105404]

>>12105386
People are designed to see the world through stories. If you want to break it down further, humans are psychology evolved to infer causality chains, to interpret the world through a series of causal relationships. Everything is a story. If you control the narrative, you control humanity.

[Anonymous No.12105409]

>>12105386
>Jesus dude, if you want to say some bullshit about christianity just come up and say it to my face

Okay tough guy.

[Anonymous No.12105413]

>>12105386
All art is the product of sexual repression.
This why so many authors are and were fags.

[Anonymous No.12105414]

>>12105396
This, especially low IQ trash like Dostoevsky.

[Anonymous No.12105419]

>>12105413
*laughs in french*

[Anonymous No.12105429]

>>12105386
Making Art is simply fulfilling the need to share feelings
Consuming Art is simply fulfilling the need to feel

[Anonymous No.12105462]

>>12105386
fiction is about what it means to be a fucking human being

[Anonymous No.12105482]

You seem to put a lot of weight on the importance of realness, but what's the practical value of being 'real'? Raskolnikov is a fictional character who never existed. But what if he did? Would it improve the novel in any way if it was a true story? I'd argue that it would make the novel worse. I tend to approach fiction and non-fiction in different ways. Being imaginary, I can appreaciate the genius of Raskolnikov's character, he's a construct of a powerful human intellect and through that character I can sense and comprehend that intellect. Which, some may argue, is the whole point of art. But if Raskolnikov was a man, I get nothing. I have to start questioning the authenticity of his words, I have no wonder to just which degree the story is lying to me and embellishing itself. And even if I choose to trust Crime and Punishment: Nonfiction, all I get is a story of one man. Who lived a curious case of life and died. At best he's a historical figure me. Fictional Raskolnikov lives forever within the shared consciousness of humanity

[Anonymous No.12105491]

>>12105386
There is also beauty in the writing and mastering the art of telling stories

[Anonymous No.12106547]

>>12105386
You’re autistic and possibly gay

[Anonymous No.12106561]

>>12106547
For you

[Anonymous No.12106562]

>>12105396
This.

The only reason anyone in the past read fiction was simply because Netflix and vidya didn't exist yet. Written fiction is completely obsolete in 2018.

[Anonymous No.12106568]

>>12105386
>reductionist
>hurr just read philosophy
i hope for your sake this is just a good bait

[Anonymous No.12106572]

>>12105386
Actual autism

[Anonymous No.12106573]

>>12105386
What is the point of anything? Why play ridiculous games with terribleb stories? Why watch movies? Why jack off? Why fuck?

[Anonymous No.12106585]

>>12105386
You absorbed his philosophy while you thought you were reading a story about some nonexistent characters. Whose the dummy?

[Anonymous No.12106587]

>>12106562
How do people like you post on a board about literature? You don't even understand the first thing about it holy shit! Read Don Quixote you fucking mong and maybe you'll get it.

[Anonymous No.12106594]

>>12106587
It baffles me the fact that faggots like >>12106562 post here. What are they even doing here?

[Anonymous No.12106604]

I am gay.