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Anonymous Mon Apr 25 13:03:02 2016 No.7963782 [Reply] [Original]

Are the 1880s the greatest literary decade ever?

Nietzsche, Twain, Doyle, Stevenson, Henry James, Ibsen, Strindberg, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Huysmans, de Maupassant, Zola all at the top of their game at the same time.

What unique conditions resulted in such exceptional literary output? Was it really a decadent time? Does decadence precipitate good art?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 13:04:12 2016 No.7963785 >>7963782 >What unique conditions resulted in such exceptional literary output? you werent yet alive and therefore were not able to drag everything down to your pitiful subterranean level, you lackwitted oaf

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 13:07:02 2016 No.7963791 >>7963782 aristocracy was still around and their wasnt computers for people to fuck around with.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 13:10:06 2016 No.7963798 >>7963791 >aristocracy was still around Pretty much all the writers mentioned were middle-class, most either writing for a living or even having a real job and writing on the side.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 13:40:26 2016 No.7963880 >>7963791 >their wasnt

Anonymous Mon Apr 25 13:55:29 2016 No.7963927

people were able to earn a living without being a peasant
more people were educated
the church pretty much gave up burning people for saying things they didn't like
most Europoor states would still lock people up or chase them to the border for saying things they didn't like, but they let them get away with more stuff than they used to. 1848 put the fear of god into a lot of them.
Books could be printed comparatively cheaply.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:00:31 2016 No.7963950 >>7963782 there are only three good writers here though...

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:03:37 2016 No.7963959 >>7963927 All those things apply today to an even greater degree, but we don't have any results to show for it...

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:05:07 2016 No.7963966 >>7963782 You're not supposed to say "de" Maupassant, just Maupassant. Also you're not supposed to read him.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:05:16 2016 No.7963967 >>7963950 pleb detected

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:06:27 2016 No.7963973 >>7963966 good catch m8. you mustv'e done a closer reading of the Maupassant wiki article than most!

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:15:25 2016 No.7964015 >>7963959 Way to throw YA authors under the bus, dude.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:22:46 2016 No.7964044 >>7963959 Most of what needed to be said was said by 1880 The rest is just wanking

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:24:13 2016 No.7964049 >>7963798 he never said the writers were aristocrats, yo

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:25:58 2016 No.7964056 >>7964049 So do aristocrats have a magical aura that makes good writers? What's the connection? It certainly was not an age of aristocratic patronage.

Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:30:14 2016 No.7964071

society was in a genuinely revolutionary period and new ideologies were being freely explored and promulgated.

now society is in deep stagnation, intellectual trends are largely insular and unexciting, and media is flooded with plebs. the current age isn't conducive to the creation of great art.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:30:39 2016 No.7964073 >>7963782 William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens were all born between 1879 and 1888. Pretty great decade.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 14:53:37 2016 No.7964171 >>7963973 projecting

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 15:02:33 2016 No.7964211 >>7963791 Aristocracy is still around.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 15:08:31 2016 No.7964233 The 1590s was the greatest decade for literature. This is undeniable.

Anonymous Mon Apr 25 15:18:28 2016 No.7964260 [DELETED]

>>7964071
>the current age isn't conducive to the creation of great art
Particularly literature, because in the "information age" a lot a people distrust words and ideas and favor seemingly direct, physical experiences that can relate to their own body.

Anonymous Mon Apr 25 15:21:29 2016 No.7964269

>>7964071
>the current age isn't conducive to the creation of great art
Particularly literature, because in the "information age" a lot a people distrust words and ideas and favor seemingly direct, physical experiences that can be related to their own body.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 19:14:06 2016 No.7965003 >>7963782 Nah, that would be the 1920's.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 19:26:51 2016 No.7965045 >>7964071 I can't believe you people actually believe this shit

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 19:31:13 2016 No.7965056 >>7965045 Do you have an alternative theory?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 19:40:43 2016 No.7965082 >>7963782 Rise of the bourgeois, with still a hint of neo-classical formalism. People rebelled from conventional norms, but still had a sense of aesthetics.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 20:40:33 2016 No.7965265 >>7963950 There are at least seven

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 25 20:42:19 2016 No.7965275 >>7964073 Stevens is nice, and Eliot does have a few great poems

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