/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.16763639]

Has contemporary literature stagnated?
Where does it have to go from here?
pic is me

[Anonymous No.16763647]

>>16763639
Art is dead. It's over. You will never see a great work of art in your lifetime, all that remains of art is ghosts.

[Anonymous No.16763686]

>>16763647
i still hope this is not true for music somehow. couldnt care less about the rest though

[Anonymous No.16763701]

>Art is dead. It's over. You will never see a great work of art in your lifetime, all that remains of art is ghosts.

[Anonymous No.16763902]

>>16763701
where'd you get the picture of me

[Anonymous No.16764095]

>>16763639
Literature is an obsolete medium.

[Anonymous No.16765403]

>>16763639
>asking /lit/ about contemporary literature
Good luck with that, if it was published this century /lit/ isn't interested,

[Anonymous No.16765432]

>>16763639
>asking /lit/ about contemporary literature
Good luck with that, if it was published this century /lit/ isn't interested.

[Anonymous No.16765457]

>>16765403
that's a meme. there's always that new kid who hasn't caught up with the canon and therefor needs to establish a fake sense of elitism by saying something dumb like "I don't read anything written after Shakespeare / after 1850 / after 1900 / after 1950 / after 1970 / after 1999 / after 2010..."

[Anonymous No.16765474]

>>16765432
>if it was published this century /lit/ isn't interested
>DFW, Pynchon, McCarthy, Faulkner, Hemingway all published in the past century
???

[Anonymous No.16765477]

>>16763902
Stop pretending to be me

[Anonymous No.16765482]

>>16763639
>Has contemporary literature stagnated?
No. The market has always been full of shit. There are still masters and prodigies producing books of genuine literary merit.
>Where does it have to go from here?
Movements and stuff that will be dominant the next few months are New Sincerity, Po-Mo, Nu-Mo, Social Justice Literature, Trump-years literature, therapeutic self-help type poetry, political biographies, and quarantine-themed books.

[Anonymous No.16765483]

>>16765457
So what are some post 2000 books that are popular on /lit/ ?

[Anonymous No.16765523]

>>16765483
check the wiki for charts. there are several with post-2000 lit. Bleeding Edge or Submission are popular, others are more controversial, and once in a while people post a recently published favourite.

[Anonymous No.16765562]

>>16765523
>>16765523
>Submission
Houellebecq, fuck that incel hack.
>Bleeding Edge
I've literally never seen this discussed here.

[Anonymous No.16765624]

>>16765562
>Houellebecq
>Incel hack
>Houellebecq has had sex
>Houellebecq’s characters tend to have sex
Cope harder loser. Just because an author is critical of sexual degeneracy in the Western world doesn’t automatically make him an incel. Also:

>Bleeding Edge
>Never seen it discussed here
Lurk more faggot

[Anonymous No.16765629]

>>16763647
I am alive anon don't worry

[Anonymous No.16765634]

>>16765624
lol triggered

[Anonymous No.16765663]

>>16765634
not him, but he's right. Houellebecq's genius goes beyond just analysing European society's illnesses. he mocks everyone on the political spectrum. and Pynchon is the single most discussed author here, there are threads up right now, and if you'd make a Bleeding Edge thread, there would be at least four or five takers or more as seen in the past.

tl;dr: lurk more

[Anonymous No.16765682]

>>16765663
>Pynchon is the single most discussed author here
No

[Anonymous No.16765717]

>>16765682
1. Pynchon
2. Joyce
3. DFW
4. Cormac McCarthy
5. Melville
6. Le epic forced meme of the month (TM)

[Anonymous No.16765733]

>>16763647
Everybody says this always

[Anonymous No.16765739]

>>16765457
Any higher res? That shit is impossible to read