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Are there any great authors who are/were utter scum, complete degenerates, and almost subhuman?

>> No.16289636

No.

>> No.16289678

>>16289623
You

>> No.16289691
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>>16289678
Thanks bro

>> No.16289746

>>16289623
Schopenhauer
Whoremonging, choleric, hypocritical, gluttonous, cowardly, resentful, mysognist (arguably good), etc. etc.
He was a very good writer and wrote truth, but his life certainly didn't reflect it and he'd agree

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If only you knew him in person

>> No.16289851

>>16289623
Wiliam S. Burroughs was a morphine addict and alcoholic who drunkenly shot his wife in the head while playing "William Tell"

Christopher Marlowe was always getting into fights, and tried to stab someone in the head in a drunk fight over a pub bill before being stabbed himself

Catallus, judging by his poetry, was always having parties and getting drunk, and lusted after catamites

>> No.16289861

>>16289746
this is so dumb, at least learn about Schopenhauer if you're going to say something so outlandish

>> No.16289891

>>16289623
Neitzche, Zizek, Stirner, all of modern self help authors, Napoleon Hill especially.

>> No.16289974

>>16289623
David Foster Wallace. A complete nympho, got a tattoo of his ex lover and stalked her. And he had the balls to write about openness and sincerity

>> No.16290276

>>16289691
I laughed like a fucking imbecile at this picture.

>> No.16290330

Hitler

>> No.16291627

>>16289623
Rousseau

>> No.16291635

Bukowski.
Swinburne.
Basically any poet.

>> No.16291711

>>16289623
Celine, is one thing to be antisemitic, but the guy had an unhealthy obsession and more generally speaking a disgusting lifestyle. Still one of the greatest writer of 20th century.

>> No.16291716

>>16289891
how is that true about stirner, he was a schoolteacher and a bit distant to his wife wow so evil

>> No.16292232

>>16289623
>Are there any great authors who are/were utter scum, complete degenerates, and almost subhuman?
Tolstoi

>> No.16292242

>>16289623
Author of My Diary Desu

>> No.16292248

>>16289623
Jean Genet

>> No.16292275

>>16289623
Rousseau. Steinbeck. Easton Ellis. De Sade.

Not sure I would call them great though. I guess Ginsberg. Maybe Whitman too.

>> No.16292293

>>16289623
Most of them.

The Beats were all-around filth. Hemingway was a bad person, abusive and paranoid. Nabokov's literary life in a nutshell: writes a book about kiddie fucking, spends the rest of his career trashing every other writer. All the French intellectuals were free love pedophiles.

>> No.16292525

>>16289851
>Wiliam S. Burroughs was a morphine addict and alcoholic who drunkenly shot his wife in the head while playing "William Tell"
That's the least of what that piece of shit did.

>> No.16292531

>>16289623
Sartre. Complete slimebag.

>> No.16292542

>>16291716
Very interesting. I just checked his wiki and all the crazy shut he did was taken out and re written. Maybe because of the anarchy in our streets? From what I remember he was in debt with like 6 different people. He took money with no intention of paying it back.. running and hiding everywhere. Living in barns and outside. He also died from getting bit by a bug. Which is very unique and interesting to me why would someone take that information down?

>> No.16292546

>>16291716
>>16292542
i mean... dont we barely know anything about him? hard to make a personal decision on the guy as a person.

>> No.16292549

Andre Gide and Henry de Montherlant were pederasts. Thomas Malory was a convicted armed robber and rapist.

>> No.16292574

>>16292546
By their fruits you shall know them

>> No.16292588

>>16292525
Do tell!

>> No.16292594

>>16292546
I read it in a biography of him. Yes we do know about him

>> No.16292598

>>16292588
Sorry, I promised him I wouldn't share.

>> No.16292605

>>16292598
You knew Burroughs?

>> No.16292654

>>16292588
He was a pederast. He probably raped thousands of boys. When his own son came to visit him he allowed Allen Ginsberg to openly groom and rape the kid. This fucked up the poor kid and he ended up becoming an alcoholic and killing himself.

>> No.16292699

>>16292654
kek just what the fuck is so malignantly wrong with Americans? imagine crying about Moloch but wanting to molest teenagers

>> No.16292944

>>16289623
Surprised nobody has mentioned Foulcaut. I hate that aids infested faggot

>> No.16292961

>>16289623
marx

>> No.16293318

>>16289851
That Kit Marlowe yarn has no reference to it at all

>> No.16293334

>>16292549
Montherlant is based.

>> No.16293361

Andre gide

>> No.16293794

Celine
Giono
Drieu la Rochelle
Cocteau
Guitry
Aymé
All these writers are great, but they collaborated with the German occupants. While others like René Char went into the Resistance. This is not about politics btw, the beginning of the Resistance saw many far rights believers in their ranks and almost no communists before Germany went to war with the USSR. This is about being spineless and opportunists in times that need strong men.

>> No.16293829

Hunter S. Thompson basically lived off drugs. It's a miracle he stayed alive as long as he did

>> No.16295366

>>16289851
Marlowe was killed for his atheist views. Don't tell anyone you heard this from me.

>> No.16295374

Tolstoy

>> No.16296688
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>>16289623

>> No.16297950

Cervantes was imprisoned for fraud on his taxman job.

>> No.16297969

>>16289623
>Arthur C. Clarke
Diddler, did the whole octegenarian sex tourist in Asia thing

>> No.16297979

>>16292588
Raped children

>> No.16298356

>Quevedo and Góngora
Had no limits when it came to criticize each other or other people in their satirical poems

>> No.16298876

>>16289623
Mishima

>> No.16299054

>>16289623
How could there be, they would have been too busy being drunk and jerking off to write anything