/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6406073]

Daily reminder that if you aren't published by the age of 25 (twenty-five) you will NEVER be patrician and your work will NEVER be canon.

[Anonymous No.6406076]

well memed my friend

[Anonymous No.6406082]

>DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
>Zadie Smith was 25 when White Teeth was published
>Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
>F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
>Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Italo Calvino was 23 when The Path to the Nest of the Spiders was published
>Kerouac was 20 when The Sea is My Brother was published
>Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
>Musil was 25 when The Confusions of Young Torless was published
>Hemingway was 25 when In Our Time was published
>Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published
>Ryu Murakami was 24 when Almost Transparent Blue was published
>Garcia Marquez was 20 when Eyes of a Blue Dog was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
>Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "On Tendencies" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "My Life" was published
>Saramago was 25 years old when Land of Sun was published
>Dickens was 24 when Sketches by Boz was published
>Dickens was 25 when The Pickwick Papers was published
>Huxley was 25 when Limbo was published
>James Joyce was 25 when Chamber Music was published
>Proust was 25 when Pleasures and Days was published
>Mishima was 23 when Confessions of a Mask was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 21 when Less Than Zero was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 23 when Rules of Attraction was published
>Kenzaburō Ōe was 23 when Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was published
>Emile Zola was 24 when Contes à Ninon was published
>Balzac was 20 when Cromwell was published
>Baudelaire was 24 when Salon of 1845 was published
>Hitomi Kanehara was 20 when Snakes and Earrings was published
>Stig Dagerman was 23 when Ormen was published
>Strindberg was 22 when The Outlaw was published
>Ibsen was 22 when Catiline was published
>Milan Kundera was 24 when Man: A Wide Garden was published
>Adam Thirwell was 24 when Politics was published
>Ned Beaumann was 25 when Boxer, Beetle was published
>Norman Mailer was 25 when The Naked and the Dead was published

[Anonymous No.6406182]

bump

[Anonymous No.6406185]

I like to think our generation will be late bloomers and history will blame the recession

[Anonymous No.6406196]

>>6406185
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Mira Gonzalez was 22 when i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together was published
>Ben Brooks was 19 when Grow Up was published
>Ben Brooks was 22 when Lolito was published
>Ellen Kennedy was 20 when Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs was published
>Alex Kazemi was 19 when Yours Truly, Brad Cena was published
>Téa Obreht was 25 when The Tiger's Wife was published

[Anonymous No.6406216]

>>6406082
>Conrad
Try harder m8

[Anonymous No.6406243]

>Cormac Mccarthy first published over 30
>Brett Easton Ellis and Tao Lin used to pad out examples

[Anonymous No.6406262]

>>6406073
I'm 23, never write anything, read a lot though and I'm actually thinking about writing a book and seeing where I can go with it

I have a story, going through the overview / characters / plot / theme etc now.

[Anonymous No.6406750]

+1 upvote

[Anonymous No.6406757]

>>6406262
What's the story?

>inb4 paranoia about it being stolen

[Anonymous No.6406790]

>Edith Hamilton was 62 when The Greek Way was published

[Anonymous No.6406820]

I know "Chamber Music" is listed up there, but Joyce didn't actually publish any prose until he was in his thirties.

[Anonymous No.6406824]

>>6406082
practically anyone wrote the piece why you know him before 25.

[Anonymous No.6406930]

[Anonymous No.6406954]

Daily reminder that if you set limits for yourself you will never get anywhere

[Anonymous No.6406955]

Did you know that Hegel wrote the Phenomenology of Spirit at age 6? There's no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact.

[Anonymous No.6406957]

>>6406954

Daily reminder that if you don't set goals and milestones for yourself you'll languish.

[Anonymous No.6406968]

>>6406243
What? Tao Lin is at least as significant as Joyce.

[Anonymous No.6406981]

>>6406968
Poor b8 m8.

[Anonymous No.6406990]

test

[Anonymous No.6407026]

ugh, Im 24 and haven't even gotten started on that novel. I might as well just give up now

[Anonymous No.6407035]

Woolf burroughs dickinson blake whitman Shakespeare

well that was easy

[Anonymous No.6407041]

>>6406082
Basic Pleb: The Post

[Anonymous No.6407043]

>I still have 12 days!