Can you imagine something comparable in value and style to In

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>>8667676
Honestly, deference to the "classics" is the result of nostalgia and years of self-selection by pretentious /lit/ fags. In 100 years people will decry their literature as degenerate and refer back to the great works of today.

Certainly not to take away from Proust, but very much to take away from the whole "contemporary literature is shit" movement on here that is dishonest at best.

>>8667788
I did not mean contemporary literature so much as the possibility of depiction of contemporary life in a great and meaningful piece of literature in detail. For example it seems impossible to include any time spent on computers without it sounding distasteful

>>8667795
True but in Proust's time there were other equally awful situations, like workhouses and suffering from tuberculosis.

>>8667814
Yes but they were not the daily life of Proust, even the upper class lives largely distasteful lives now. Also there is literary merit to workhouses and tuberculosis, they are content with emotion and possibly meaning, you can write about these things. There is no emotion or feeling in someone spending half their day on instagram and twitter, it's just nothingness.

>>8667839
>even the upper class lives largely distasteful lives now.
THe upper class as always been about leisure and they are still great at it

>>8667676
I can imagine it: Knausgaard. And it's the best thing I've read all yead

>>8667788
Hadn't heard of this book. Thanks for posting.

>>8667676
I'll be working on a similar project, except it has a plot, which hopefully the reader eventually transcends, and even then it differs from Proust in that the narrative evolves into a diary of disgrace and self-hatred. I'm still unsure whether or not to offer the narrator redemption and thus resolving the narrative.

I'm still years away from writing it, considering I'm still in the process of mapping out my current project, whose manuscript I'm still waiting to be begin until after I've finished reading to enough to know how to properly construct a novel.