Are we already past the literary peak? I doubt the 21st century will spawn anything that comes close to the classics.
>>8909437
we've always been telling the same stories. our emotional compass hasn't expanded all our favorite modern stories are all just repetitions of the same fundamental human experience.
that said. civilization will fall (in whatever sense), "literaryness" will rise
>>8909437
Don't worry mate when my novel is out in a couple of years the literary world will be envigorated
>>8909461
Holy shit
Yours too?
>>8909470
We can be head of the new golden age
>>8909475
Sounds good mate
I'll be the new Tolstoy and you can be the new Dostoevsky
Then people can make threads on future /lit/ arguing over which of us was better
>>8909481
Sounds fine by me. Everyone knows it's Dostoevsky anyway.
What's yours called?
>>8909437
The greatest authors of this century are yet to be discovered. They'll probably be studied in the next hundred years.
>>8909645
It's me, desu, and the two anons above are going to be my students of a new movement called 'autistic agonism'.