/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.21586140]

Post authors who had weird deaths.

Pushkin was shot in a duel by the French soldier who was fucking his wife.

[Anonymous No.21586375]

>>21586140
at least he tried

[Anonymous No.21586407]

>>21586140
He survived, became fat, and moved to Paris where he later worked under the pen name of Alexandre Dumas.

[Anonymous No.21586408]

That’s not weird for Russian upper class in that time. Lermontov was also killed in a duel, and the most common cause of a duel wast an affair with a married woman. Pierre in War and Peace fights a duel for this reason and Vronsky in Anna Karenina is baffled as to why Anna’s husband doesn’t duel him

[Anonymous No.21586944]

>>21586140
Albert Camus, obviously.
>hates cars
>refuses to ever ride in one
>finally agrees to let his friend drive him just this one time because his train is leaving
>the road is straight and dry
>still crashes into a fucking tree and dies while the friend survives

[Anonymous No.21586955]

>>21586140
Aeschylus
>killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell, and killed him stone dead

[Anonymous No.21586956]

>>21586944
How absurd

[Anonymous No.21586957]

>>21586944
checked and kek'd. didn't know this

[Anonymous No.21586958]

>>21586944
>>21586956
>Camus himself is reported to have said that the most absurd way to die would be in a car accident.

[Anonymous No.21586960]

>>21586140
It was never proven he was fucking his wife.

[Anonymous No.21587024]

>>21586140
What is weird about that?

[Anonymous No.21587720]

>>21586140
Christopher Marlowe owed a bunch of gambling debts to shady people.

He was later nearly stabbed to death in a bar. When he came to in a hospital a day later, he had is friends spread the rumour he was dead, effectively faking his own death. He then retreated from public life altogether.

A decade or so later, he started writing and publishing again under the name of his illiterate plebian manservant. He went on to become the greatest playwright of his generation, all while effectively pretending to be dead.

[Anonymous No.21587847]

>>21586140
>>21586408
Lots of Russians had shit deaths, didn't they. Not an author but I was so sad when I read that Bilibin was thrown in a mass grave. I really loved his art.

[Anonymous No.21587866]

>>21586140
Not really a weird death, but wasn't Descartes nearly murdered multiple times completely because of his utterly shit luck?

[Anonymous No.21587869]

>>21586140
Ambrose Bierce

[Anonymous No.21587929]

>>21587847
There is a different definition of "shit". Pushkin is rather an example of a noble death. It seems like a nobleman and a poet - it's nobly to die with a weapon in your hands in the prime of life. Bilibin (thank you, I didn’t even know when and how he died) is rather an example of voluntary (he refused to be evacuated) martyrdom. It seems like the monks who are buried in mass crypts have humility before God. I suspect that since in Russia a writer is always more than a "writer", so the tragic death of a writer is easier for society to accept than a mediocre slow death from illness surrounded by friends and family. The writer (poet) is not an ordinary being and should not leave like everyone else.

Hunter Thompson's suicide seems strange to me. Wrote "Attorney" on a typewriter and, it seems, decided to shoot himself, not wanting to continue to grow old and get sick. "Death on my terms." I'm sorry he didn't live up to Trump. Oh, I can imagine how he could describe that election.

[Anonymous No.21587965]

>>21587929
>not wanting to continue to grow old and get sick. "Death on my terms."
I can relate to that

[Anonymous No.21588069]

Francis Bacon died after stuffing a chicken with snow, and Tennessee Williams died after choking on a bottle cap.

[Anonymous No.21588089]

Balzac woke up around 1 AM every day and wrote in a fury fueled by dozens of cups of coffee. He died at 51 of heart failure, most likely due to extreme levels of caffeine use
http://airshipdaily.com/blog/01282014-balzac-coffee

[Anonymous No.21588093]

>>21586957
How did you not know this? Did you start reading yesterday?

[Anonymous No.21588101]

>>21588089
He took the espresso ticket to the afterlife!

[Anonymous No.21588118]

>>21588101
*expresso
Your joke doesn't work

[Anonymous No.21588123]

Poe’s death was pretty weird
Found wandering incoherent in the streets. Uncle puts him up in a hospital assuming he would come to his senses when he dried up. (He was a heavy drinker)
Two days later he was still incoherent.
So he probably wasn’t just drunk. Third day he died. The cause of death was attributed to ‘brain congestion’.

[Anonymous No.21588173]

>>21586140
women and their consequences...

[Anonymous No.21588175]

>>21586960
ok cuckshkin

[Anonymous No.21588310]

>>21586140
Good to know russian women were always whores, imagine dying for a roastie that doesn't even care for you, lmao.

[Anonymous No.21588311]

>>21587929
Calm your autism, faggot.

[Anonymous No.21588357]

>>21588118
it's a pun... espresso is a way to have coffee, express is a fast train or transportation...

[Anonymous No.21588402]

>>21587720
That manservants name? William Shakespear

[Anonymous No.21588421]

>>21588101
I chortled

[Anonymous No.21588841]

This was more of a social death, but Jonathan Safran Foer left his wife because he mistakenly believed a pregnant Natalie Portman was secretly in love with him.

[Anonymous No.21589890]

Choked to death on a toothpick

[Anonymous No.21590145]

>>21589890
No he didn’t, he swallowed a toothpick and died from the the inflammation that resulted from it; he didn’t choke.

[Anonymous No.21590175]

>>21586140
>These witnesses testified that Frizer and Marlowe had argued over payment of the bill (now famously known as the 'Reckoning') exchanging "divers malicious words" while Frizer was sitting at a table between the other two and Marlowe was lying behind him on a couch. Marlowe snatched Frizer's dagger and wounded him on the head. In the ensuing struggle, according to the coroner's report, Marlowe was stabbed above the right eye, killing him instantly.
>The jury concluded that Frizer acted in self-defence and within a month he was pardoned. Marlowe was buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Deptford immediately after the inquest, on 1 June 1593.
>The other witness, Nicholas Skeres, had for many years acted as a confidence trickster, drawing young men into the clutches of people in the money-lending racket, including Marlowe's apparent killer, Ingram Frizer, with whom he was engaged in such a swindle.
>Despite their being referred to as "generosi" (gentlemen) in the inquest report, the witnesses were professional liars. Some biographers, such as Kuriyama and Downie, take the inquest to be a true account of what occurred, but in trying to explain what really happened if the account was not true, others have come up with a variety of murder theories.
>Jealous of her husband Thomas's relationship with Marlowe, Audrey Walsingham arranged for the playwright to be murdered
>Sir Walter Raleigh arranged the murder, fearing that under torture Marlowe might incriminate him.
>With Skeres the main player, the murder resulted from attempts by the Earl of Essex to use Marlowe to incriminate Sir Walter Raleigh.
>He was killed on the orders of father and son Lord Burghley and Sir Robert Cecil, who thought that his plays contained Catholic propaganda.
>He was accidentally killed while Frizer and Skeres were pressuring him to pay back money he owed them.
>Marlowe was murdered at the behest of several members of the Privy Council who feared that he might reveal them to be atheists.
>The Queen ordered his assassination because of his subversive atheistic behaviour.
>Frizer murdered him because he envied Marlowe's close relationship with his master Thomas Walsingham and feared the effect that Marlowe's behaviour might have on Walsingham's reputation.
>Marlowe's death was faked to save him from trial and execution for subversive atheism.
>Since there are only written documents on which to base any conclusions and since it is probable that the most crucial information about his death was never committed to paper, it is unlikely that the full circumstances of Marlowe's death will ever be known

[Anonymous No.21590183]

>>21586944
fucking kek i knew he died in a crash but not these details. the demiurge is truly a shitposter.

[Anonymous No.21590484]

>>21586944
The sun was hot that day.

[Anonymous No.21590514]

>>21586944
Lmao

[Anonymous No.21590731]

>>21588123
I heard the drinks were provided by an election candidate who was getting people drunk on the streets of Baltimore in exchange for their votes

[Anonymous No.21590735]

>>21588123
Nonsense drivel for teenage girls

[Anonymous No.21590736]

>>21588841
Greentext? Haha was he the guy she made that commercial about cuckolding at the wedding altar?

[Anonymous No.21591077]

>>21586944
You're fucking with us; no way is this true.

[Anonymous No.21591650]

>>21586944
>while the friend survives
>Gallimard died a few days later

[Anonymous No.21592622]

>>21586955
You missed crucial parts of this story.

He received a prophecy early in his life that he would die from a falling object one day. He spent most of his time outdoors to stay away from any potential objects from falling off shelves or anything over his head. He had a big bald head and one day while walking outside an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head mistaking it for a rock. Birds of prey usually have this strategy to crack the shell of the tortoise to better eat it. Instead it cracked his skull and he died.

[Anonymous No.21592645]

>>21588123
To add to the oddity of his death, he was found wearing someone else's clothes. The only time he came to somewhat of a coherent sense, he mumbled a name (I forget the name) and then went back into muddled oblivion before dying a few days later.

[Anonymous No.21592665]

>>21588069
>Francis Bacon died after stuffing a chicken with snow

at first i thought you meant the masochist painter and was confused for a second but this is even funnier

[Anonymous No.21592696]

>>21586140
Cellini's death wasn't weird itself, but the situations surrounding his death were. Cellini was one of the biggest assholes in art in literature. He was a murderer, and a serial rapist (of both men and women, some of whom were his own students), but the Medicis liked him so much that he never faced any real consequences. His last incident was with a male student whom he'd forced to act as his wife for five years which ended when he was 65ish. At 71 he died peacefully and was celebrated across the country.
>>21587929
I wouldn't argue that Pushkin died nobly, especially considering how in his books he lampooned the idea of dueling as a barbaric practice and an especially stupid way to die.
>>21590175
Looking at that picture I just realized how unusual it is to see a portrait of that time period with the subject's arms crossed.
>>21592622
>gets prophecy that something will fall on his head
>spends all his time outside
can't fix stupid

[Anonymous No.21594456]

bump

[Anonymous No.21595515]

Many German expressionists died in the mortar fire of World War I. There was an anticipation among them that the Great War would be an "apocalyptic event" that would destroy the old, decayed, Wilhelministic world and create a new one from its ashes, a rebirth of new values. So they willingly signed up as soldiers, thinking they would die glorious deaths in battle like the people in myths. They didn't anticipate how industrious modern war would be, and got smashed to bits as young men "in storms of steel".
Some expressionists' deaths sticking out to me though are the following: Georg Trakl, who served as a military doctor on the eastern front, tried to shoot himself after all he had witnessed. His remaining friends prevented him from doing so and he was sent to a military hosptial - where he promptly killed himself by overdosing on cocaine.
And then there is Georg Heym, perhaps the greatest poet of German expressionism. He didn't make it to the war. 18 months before it started, he went ice skating with a friend. His friend broke into the ice in the middle of the wilderness. Heym tried to save him, but broke in himself. Woodcutters from a nearby forest allegedly heared him screaming for 20 minutes but were to scared to help him. His corpse was found days later under the ice.
Dying at age 24 to an ice skating incident might not be a particularly "weird" death. But to me it always stuck out. Almost all his contemporaries died in World War I, but the greatest of them died just before to a random accident.

[Anonymous No.21595517]

>>21586140
Damn, imagine dying to defend your honor because you're a cuck.
There is no shame in getting cucked. There is immense shame in staying with a woman who cucked you, but it's zero skin off your dick if you immediately leave. It's like if your dog has diarrhea on the floor because it's sick, it's nasty but it just ain't your fault.

[Anonymous No.21595724]

>>21595517
This is precisely what makes Russian literature from the nineteenth century so attractive. The society of that time followed completely different rules than ours. At that time it was not a disgrace to be killed standing upright in a duel, on the contrary, it would be a humiliation to flee and expose your wife, family and name to rumors. Turgenev describes a very similar situation where someone faces a duel with a much younger man to protect his brother's honor. This seems to have been the way to deal with such problems in Russia at that time.

[Anonymous No.21595772]

>>21586140
>wife cucks you
>Duel the guy who fucked your wife instead of just killing your wife and/or killing the guy
I never got this, if the dude isn't your friend or someone you know, why put the blame on him and not your whore wife?

[Anonymous No.21595806]

>overdose on crystal meth
>at a gay orgy
>at the age of 74

[Anonymous No.21596076]

Frank O’Hara was run over by a dune buggy on Fire Island

[Anonymous No.21596250]

>>21595806
based?

[Anonymous No.21596256]

>>21586958
A real nigga to the end

[Anonymous No.21596283]

>>21588123
What's with the pennies?

[Anonymous No.21596291]

>>21586944
Not going to believe that bro.

[Anonymous No.21596351]

>>21595724
This is not true, it wasn't considered "disgraceful" exactly to die in a duel, but it was considered stupid by the time Pushkin and Lermontov were publishing their novels, both of whom themselves ridiculed the institution of dueling in their books before ironically dying in duels themselves. The scene you describe from Turgenev's Fathers and Sons was also meant to make a farce of dueling. Bazarov finds dueling idiotic, and his flirtations with Fenechka he considers meaningless, as a naive nihilist. Pavel on the other hand appears to be defending his brother's honor, but alleges the duel due to his own selfish reasons over Fenechka. On top of this is the absolute absurdity of a doctor participating in a duel, totally violating the Hippocratic oath.

[Anonymous No.21596395]

This lad

[Anonymous No.21596405]

>>21586140
>In 1829, he was killed on his way to Tehran, where he was going on a working visit. During the uprising of religious fanatics, Griboyedov became a victim of a crazed crowd, but it is still unknown what exactly the writer died from. According to one version, the rebels attacked a Russian diplomat and mutilated him so badly that he could only be identified by a noticeable scar on his arm and the remains of an embassy uniform.

[Anonymous No.21596783]

>>21591077
>>21596291
It's true. It's a pretty common piece of philosophy trivia, in fact. I'm surprised so many Anons here didn't know this. Multiple sources confirm it to be true.
>>21591650
Did he? I only knew he didn't die in the crash itself.

[Anonymous No.21596850]

>>21587869
Are we sure he died?

[Anonymous No.21597019]

>>21596283
Baltimore’s weird yo

[Anonymous No.21597522]

>>21586140
>Believing he was becoming a werewolf, Potocki committed suicide on 23 December 1815 by fatally shooting himself with a silver bullet blessed by his Catholic village priest.

[Anonymous No.21597605]

>>21595515
We get it, you just discovered german expressionists, especially Trakl and Heym, so you decided to copy/paste from their wikipedia pages you discovered yesterday

[Anonymous No.21599093]

>>21596395
Context?

[Anonymous No.21599230]

>>21597522
Based retard

[Anonymous No.21599547]

>>21596783
>Multiple sources confirm it to be true.
Post them

[Anonymous No.21599555]

>>21597605
Actually, I've been reading German expressionism for roughly ten years now. I just never get to talk about them because /lit/ cannot into German poetry.

[Anonymous No.21599557]

>>21599555
based, dab on that loser.

[Anonymous No.21599566]

>>21586140
I bet the soldier was a black guy with a BBC.

[Anonymous No.21599695]

>>21586944
I always found this funny, especially because in the myth of Sisyphus he states that to have your life cut short is the greatest tragedy.

[Anonymous No.21599825]

>>21599093
>On the night of 24 February 1852 he burned some of his manuscripts, which contained most of the second part of Dead Souls. He explained this as a mistake, a practical joke played on him by the Devil. Soon thereafter, he took to bed, refused all food, and died in great pain nine days later.

[Anonymous No.21599860]

>>21599566
Fuck off.

[Anonymous No.21599886]

>>21597522
The Manuscript found in Saragossa is top tier btw.

[Anonymous No.21599892]

>>21599566
Pushkin was the black guy. 1/8th African. No cap.

[Anonymous No.21599922]

>>21599566
>>21599892
Russians have always loved niggers, unlike those filthy capitalist Americans that lynch niggers.

[Anonymous No.21600524]

>>21597019
FUCK YOU BALTIMORE

[Anonymous No.21600616]

>>21586140
Source on him being a cuck?
I was reading that he was an asshole who just loved duels. He was cucking all his "friends" who's whifes end up giving birth to brown skinned babys.
Duel that end his life was with Dantes. Their wives were sisters, duel was on basis of something minor and Dantes wasn't a duelist, so he didn't want it. Anyone else could just forget about it, but not Pushkin.
Dantes end up winning a coin flip, gets a lucky shot in Pushkin's lung. But before passing out Pushkin end up shooting Dantes in the wrist making him cripple for life.
Also allegedly Pushkin had many children with his slaves, whom he also where selling to slavery.

[Anonymous No.21600690]

>>21597522
Holy based

[Anonymous No.21600784]

>>21599555
>10 years
>Literally cannot speak about two poets without pasting from their wiki
I would say sad, but since you’re lying, then I have no need

[Anonymous No.21600857]

>>21597522
Based retard x2

[Anonymous No.21601128]

>>21600784
Actually, it is 12 years later this year since that is when I started studying.

[Anonymous No.21601508]

>>21596850
>Disappeared over one hundred years ago when he was already in his 70s.
Yeah, we're pretty sure he's dead.

[Anonymous No.21601511]

>>21601128
Sad!

[Anonymous No.21601589]

>>21600524
Lmao