/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6823536]

""Were Hroswitha with us today, we would all look to her for counsel and guidance. From the austerity and tranquility of her medieval world, the penetrating gaze of this legendary Sybil of a holy nun would exorcise the horrors which materialize before our eyes in the name of television. If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur. The images of those lasciviously gyrating children would disintegrate into so many ions and molecules, thereby effecting the catharsis which the tragedy of the debauching of the innocent necessarily demands.""

Was Toole the first PoMo author?

[Eponymous Rex !!t92QraGPsj+ No.6823572]

Ignatius is the first prototypical neckbeard in modern literature, I know that.

[Anonymous No.6823576]

>>6823572
but he's religious

[Anonymous No.6823579]

Pynchon predates toole. Also, I'd say toole is modern, not pomo. His satiric portrayal of his characters are in a lovingly vitriolic way, not a deconstructory or angry sense.

[Anonymous No.6823587]

>>6823572
well when does modern literature start? They existed in greek myths too