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Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:26:46 2010 No.902900 [Reply] [Original]

Thomas Mann started writing this when he was 22 years old, and it got published when he was 26.

He won the Nobel prize for it.

How does that make you feel /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:36:46 2010 No.902915 Indifferent. How do you want me to feel about it?

>>	Storm Petrel !HQmqe0QeaQ Mon Jul 12 03:38:46 2010 No.902918 Like I have two more years before I need to start writing it?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:40:46 2010 No.902920 Depressed, since I'm 22 and I'm inches away from giving up on my dreams of being a novelist.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:42:46 2010 No.902921 >>902920 The penis really does matter that much.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:44:46 2010 No.902923 >>902921 I guess you can't use the word "inches" on 4chan. Noted.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:45:46 2010 No.902926 Well, I still got two more years...

>>	Storm Petrel !HQmqe0QeaQ Mon Jul 12 03:48:46 2010 No.902927 >two more years... WOO! EARLY TWENTIES FIST!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 03:51:46 2010 No.902931 Has anyone read this book? I'm 300 pages in and the whole book kicks ass. The whole book feels like the author was way older at the time - you can't write a novel with such a rich world like this one without a shitload of life experience.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 04:00:46 2010 No.902944 >>902923 Hey, man. You could've been a woman, distressed by the barriers to female writers, feeling that you were a couple inches away from either being a writer or no.

Anonymous Mon Jul 12 04:35:46 2010 No.902981

Buddenbrooks was my favorite book when I was 17 years old. It is amazing. Although Mann had to write a lot more than just Buddenbrooks before they gave him the Nobel Prize. If anything, he won the Nobel for The Magic Mountain (also amazing).

But Buddenbrooks was hardly difficult for him to write---it's so heavily autobiographical, and he was seriously just interpreting his own family history in light of certain philosophic obsessions he had at the time (like Schopenhauerian pessimism---have you got to the bit yet where Thomas Buddenbrook discovers a copy of Schopenhauer?)

In other words, if your family hit their height of prosperity circa 1890 and it's all been downhill from there, until now you're contemplating being a novelist and contemplating giving up on it, then just spill all your family secrets and you can write your own Buddenbrooks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 04:45:46 2010 No.902999 >>902981 Now that is one uplifting anon!

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 05:03:46 2010 No.903015 It makes me feel like literary agents who say autobiographical novels don't sell can suck it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 05:11:46 2010 No.903023 Like I still have a minimum of 4 years to work up to it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 05:14:46 2010 No.903030 fucking "writers" are destroying /lit/

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>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 12 05:46:46 2010 No.903084 File: 79 KB, 709x1103, 73740orig.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>903030 u mad

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