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Mine's Professor Snape. Intelligent nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humour.

>>7722818
I'd say Meursault from The Stranger for those same reasons.

"And one trillion non-CG helicopters fell from the sky, crushing at least one hundred innocent, non-CG bystanders. "

>>7704457
No. It would be actually impossible to make film versions of Finnegans Wake or The Tunnel.

>>7704457
Yes. Don't believe the lies of hack directors and stuck up "authors".

the library is free anon

I can teach you for the cheap price of $50,000

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>>7730147
in my country is free

Post more things like that picture, OP.

>Is being a narcissist a requirement to be a writer?
its a requirement of a good artist
also reminder that passion is inherently selfish

No that's generally what makes a bad writer or artist.

All good art and writing is genuine and comes from a place that feels true to the creator.

All bad art is exactly what you described. By your logic the most annoying hipster or instagram girl on the planet would be the greatest artist. No, the fact those scenes are intellectually false and only self-endorsement platforms and product placement is transparent, and that's why it's hated.

Good authors tend to have lived through some terrible times, and write a somewhat first hand experience of what it was like. They give you a sense of realism. As you grow older and experience loss and love and your own personal tragedies, you come back to these great works of literature and find in an old friend new shared experiences and comfort in the solidarity of life, its many trials and tribulations.

I mean, if you haven't figured this out by the time you're 13-14, you'll probably never GET it.

>>7712860
>ones of Shakespeare are artificial, some form of super-humans, mostly because of their language
That's called theatre.

Shakespeare is like a perfect woman.

Tolstoy is like the woman you end up actually marrying.

Equal.

>>7729365
memes
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>>7729365
The relation between language and ideas.

Anal prolapse

Mira G. does it again! Another quirky and wacky adventure by everybody's up and coming favorite author!

we did it reddit!
epic bacon narwhals for the win!

>>7718806
>I give the Infinite Jest bowl a 9.5/10. I would've given it a 10/10 if it was a book I actually read and enjoyed, and an 11/10 if the book wasn't written by a white dude.

Is this irony?

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what? no

>>7730197
Lets see something better.

>>7730194
Memes

a lot of authors are legitimately pretentious though - they're simpletons trying to disguise trite and vapid messages through a veneer of intellectualism and depth. key examples that are relevant on /lit/ would be mccarthy and dfw

>>7725876
the key example would be your post.

>>7725900
Your attempt at a witty reply didn't make sense.

cringe

>>7724620
Better than Wordsworth

If I can get the Penguin Classics version I always get that, its the perfect blend of not being gaudy/not being "le washed out 21st century minimalism"
Penguin Modern Classics is shit though

>>7724716
I like their weird Kafka covers

the moon, watching over humanity as it progresses.

A teenage hermaphrodite who was adopted by a straight laced but chill guy who owns a truck stop between the coal mines of Kentucky and the interstate that's an hour away. There's a slew of pathetic and quirky Appalachian folk: an old lady named pearl who blows all her money on lottery tickets, her 11 year old granddaughter Mary who has serious mental issues and bathes herself naked in the potholes like a bird, the guy who makes sandwiches in the impromptu deli and smokes way too much weed, the Ford Explorer full of "yo dawg" white boys who think they're black and sell crystal while they think they're a gang, truckers, prostitutes,

It's a coming of age story

Young amoral weapons engineer befriends suicidal vietnam war veteran. Main themes empathy, valor, and psychosis

>write a bunch of shit down
>wait 100 years
from dreams into memes

>he starts Nietzsche with Zarathrustra

That's the last book you should read, the heaviest in allegory

>>7720712
that it is. it's just the most famous, I came across it and figured what the hell

>>7729570
drag the joke into a new plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLEdNmbvsA

>>7729575
this is such a sad interview.

>>7729570
david "career move suicide" wallace

Dick E. Wiggler

Dark S. Tranger

But I wonder if a female name is more ideal.

>>7728924
>trauma free
there, that does it.

Yeah desu... last thing we need is more ignorant white dudes writing 'literature'...

But see, since you're unhappy because you don't have the trauma to write literature, you can use that as trauma.

Write a book about how fucking boring your life is.