>tfw you are from european nonrelevant country >tfw your

Today I Wrote Nothing, or Zettels Traum, may make it into memehood some day

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>>7743798
>You will never grow up in the 19th century on a poor farm north of London, read English at Cambridge, pen your magnum opus, and die of cancer leaving your penniless widow with 2 young children

Why live?

>tfw Joyce always looks sort of weak and emaciated in his photos
>tfw he was actually a living breathing person who got shitfaced with Hemingway and probably assaulted others regularly

>>7743814
Kharms was from Russia and Schmidt Germany. Those are both relevant meme countries.

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>>7743798
what do you mean? as long as you write in english - which judging from the fact that you browse 4chan im guessing you know well enough - it doesnt actually matter what country you're from. actually it does matter in that it might score you some esoteric points. where are you from?

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>be depressed anxious old eurofag from nonrelevant country with a meme language
>get everyone on your dick regardless

there's always hope

>>7744905
you just KNOW

sadie is so qt :')

>>7744905
who is this guy anyway? Is his stuff any good? I'm a bit cut off from contemporary literature but yesterday I walked into a pretty well known bookstore here in Lisbon and there was an entire shelf dedicated to him. I don't mean just part of a shelf, I mean an entire fucking shelf, from one wall to another, of books with his ugly face on them. And every book cover had his face. He looks like a wolf

how do authors even get their stuff known nowadays? music and film it seems it's easier than ever to get known but authors seem to struggle

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>>7745080
He gets hailed as the next Proust, can't remember the last time people collectively lost their shit over literary fiction like this to be honest.

Also

>knausgard
>ugly

The lad looks like a rugged David Bowie.

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>>7745066
What makes that picture really memey is that Tao Lin took it.

>>7744905
>Knausgaard and Smith
No, that's too much meme for me. Imouttahere!

>>7744905
do you think he hit, lads?

>>7745082
>writers have it tough titties
>nowadays

>>7745082
>>7745144

LIFE IS HARD, OK

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>from the netherlands
>none of our books are read internationally, never
>tfw /lit/ will never read my postmodern novella

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>>7745152
I will, mate.

>>7745080

He's brilliant

>>7745080
He's the next DFW. Suicide would be the perfect career move for him right now.

>>7745137
Look at her body language, he most definitely hit.

>>7745152
Nescio got an English translation from NYRB, so there's a chance

>>7743798
My only consolation is being able to read original Cioran. Then I realize that his best was written in French and I'm disappointed again.

>>7745221
I liked that a lot.

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>>7744905
>you will never hang out with Tao, Karl and Sadie

>Tfw Canadian
Why is this country such a waste land in terms of good writers?

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>Not simultameously writing in English and your native language.

Zizek managed it

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>>7745122

>filename

>>7745080
>Lisbon

Onde, pá? A Bertrand só tem merda.