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16907742 No.16907742 [Reply] [Original]

Is it the case that all the greatest authors have despised whatever modernity they were born into? In my experience the most brilliant minds have romanticized a time before they existed over the world they see around them. But they have only experienced this time through influences on their writing; so is a (genuine of course) hatred of the modern styles of your time a significant prerequisite to greatness of writing?

>> No.16907750

>>16907742
>born in le wrong generation
Kys

>> No.16907756

>>16907742
Not really, name some.
/lit/ would like to believe that great writers were shut in autist losers like them but in fact most great writers took part in their world and had vibrant social lives

>> No.16907778

Smarter ones look toward the future and its possibilities, not back to an ideal past that never existed. Great minds will acknowledge that if change occurred, humans must’ve felt the need for it. Weaker souls will search for answers in the past and become consumed by it.

>> No.16907781

That has two parts. Do I despise this age? 110% I wish I had been born boomer or earlier. As for the style of modern fiction, it has never been better. I prefer novels over shorts. In terms of style, King is better than Lovecraft.

>> No.16907790

>>16907756
Pic related, Henry James, Yukio Mishima, Fydor Dostoevsky, H.G. Wells
There are surely more but I know the philosophies of these authors enough to claim they did hold resentment to modernity in favor of their own various ideals

>> No.16907797

Lovecraft is smart but hardly one of the greatest writers, even he'd agree. But without a doubt, he'd post here, /pol/ and /x/ specifically

>> No.16907801

>>16907742
>Is it the case that all the greatest authors have despised whatever modernity they were born into?
No, dumbass. Read moar.

>> No.16907819

>>16907797
I chose him as a clear example of one whose hatred motivated great writing, not as one of the most brilliant writers

>> No.16907837

>>16907790
Those guys are all meme writers except Dostoevsky and James

>> No.16908064

>>16907837
Provide an example of the opposite (great authors who loved modernity) rather than arguing opinions