Can a healthy mind produce good literary fiction?

yeah but it'd be boring as fuck

Would a healthy mind even be drawn to fiction?

Most works that are hailed as eternal classics were made by such, all your disturbed and "struggling" artists are somewhere in middling tier.

>>8632128
is this the reddit containment thread?

>>8632193
for example?

>>8632211

I don't have any examples, it's just my opinion, and therefore objectively correct.

>>8632211
Wasn't Joyce pretty normal? Yes there's his sexual preferences but I don't think it made him crazy.

>>8632368
He was genuinely schizophrenic

>>8632140

Healthy minds are not drawn to art in general. Writers write to be part of the collective consciousness. They can't do it through normal means and use art as a tool for expression.

This meme of mental illness = better art is just garbage perpetuated by people who want their lack of talent and discipline to be taken seriously.

>>8632388
One guy thought he was after having read Ulysses

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>>8632408
Then it's a very old meme that has more merit than your contrarian mindset is able to give.

>>8632421
that guy was carl jung

he thought a lot of people were schizophrenic like hegel

>>8632423
Actually, no.

>ITT: nobody quoting Tolstoy's first sentence of Anna Karenina
Excuse me, I thought that this board was superior.

>>8632613
noticed you didnt quote it neither