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The French worship the sensation, from Watteau to the Impressionists. Their literary culture is full with pleasure and delights, and even when they talk about a concrete metaphysical themes like in Paul Valéry's poem "Ebauche D'un Serpent" they cannot avoid the sensation. When the French mention "La Poésie pure", he is not talking about removing non lyrical features from poetry, but removing poetry until they reach the pure sensation just as Mallarmé accomplished in his "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard". This understanding of literature as a vehicle of sensation is alien to the rest of European countries, and it's literary poison for us just as the extreme German sentimentality.

We need poetry without sensation and sentimentalism, we don't want our cultures to be polluted by frenchs nor Germans. We are not french, for GOD'S SAKE!

>> No.14135352

This is the most bizarre rant I've seen here.

>> No.14135447

>>14135352
I don't know why people worry about the globalization of their race and culture but they don't care about their literature being a mix up of foreign features. Literature should help us to dive into the colective unconscious from which cultures have their roots, and for that purpose it becomes relevant to know what are aspects of our collective identity and what else is not.

>> No.14135452

>>14135447
>colective unconscious

haha

>> No.14135506

>>14135452
ok reddit.

>> No.14135523

>>14135506
Based.

>> No.14135535

>>14135348
Actually this really speaks to me. I've been trying to put my finger on why all French literature is shit, and why even the OK stuff like Gide and Stendhal ends up not actually saying anything.
Where can I read more about this theory?

>> No.14135543

>>14135447
Are you saying we should merely be conscious of the fact, or avoid any more literary race mixing altogether?
I mean, neither novels nor rhyming poetry are English inventions.

>> No.14135569

>>14135447
Why? We have gone beyond culture now.

>> No.14135572

>>14135543
Just care a bit more about what is written in your country, noting else. Learn from foreigners not to imitate them but to find your true self. Anglos usually don't have this problem, they are as chauvinists as the French.

>> No.14135576

>>14135535
>Where can I read more about this theory?
OP's asshole.

>> No.14135589

>>14135569
Going beyond culture is going beyond the soul. Are you soulless?

>> No.14135617

>>14135348
so what are the strong suits of non french and german literature?

>> No.14135648

>>14135589
You have a limited view of the sould if you think culture is important to it.

>> No.14136151

>>14135572
Yes like those ESLs here who neglect the literature of their language and want to write in English. Unless they're aiming for commercial success, I don't see why.

>> No.14136162

there's something so sensuous about the French as a race, their philosophy is the intellectual equivalent of smacking your lips while eating

>> No.14137425

>>14135348
bump