So who is the best of, or the best example of the tortured genius

Brian Wilson

>>8979445
nietzsche, obviously

Elliot Rodger

Eliott Smith, but your sentiments are founded because being a tortured artist is overrated and a stereotype. People who are creative but have personal troubles like to draw a correlation between the two.

Doobie Foobie Woobie

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all of Nick Drake's songs are about
>tfw no gf

>>8980291

>Eliott Smith
>the best example

fuckin
Y I K E S

>>8980496
suck off dude .

>>8979445
DFW, he killed himself

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Frida Kahlo.

hart crane

he jumped off of a boat because a sailor wouldn't fuck him

rimbaud is also an acceptable answer

How has no one posted Kafka yet? He's overrated but he was fairly tortured

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Definitely Artaud. The dude had it rough.

>>8980535
why

>>8980511

>genius

oh come on. not close.

Gérard de Nerval is the perfect example, most of his writings as he got older were in a somewhat insane state at times, like in a trance, and he ended up killing himself by hanging.

>>8980535
bingo

Van Gogh

How about a writer that was literally tortured? Maximus the Confessor was tortured, had his writing hand and tongue cut off, and died in prison.

>>8980795
Machiavelli

Bukowski

romanticism
guys like lermontov and puškin who were actually prosecuted and rejected by society, banished to a God-forsaken shithole while seeing no purpose in a life full of stupidity and shallowness beat postmodern whiny fags who think having jeans and weird hair makes them misunderstood outcast rebels every day

Uliliiliia

H.P. Lovecraft

>>8979445
Alberto Laiseca

>>8980831
Isn't he getting a little better? Last time I checked him out it seemed like he didn't seem as brittle as he used to.

>>8981294
i don't think Laiseca was that much of a tortured soul
also matando enanos a garrotazos is excellent

Mishima - Pitting his ubermensch qualities against his patriotism and physical/homosexual insecurity.
DFW - tortured by the pills and expectations of modern life. However, wife and audience pussy drop his rank a fair deal.
Kafka - Turned into a fucking bug.

>>8980844
He had a cute Jewish wife and nice aunts who gave him all the pocket money he needed as well as plenty of friends to hang out with in New York and write letters to after he went back to Providence.
Lovecraft was far from tortured, just painfully awkward.

>>8979445
-Joseph Roth
-Arthur Rimbaud
-Horacio Quiroga
-José Asunción Silva

Leopardi, Nietzsche, Mishima, Pessoa, Michelstaedter

>>8981308
Sure, but you're starting with a big fucking handicap if you can never touch water, sit down, walk on grass, or see your face.

Thomas Bernhard
WG Sebald
Michel Houellebecq

>>8980503
So did Joyce, Woolf, Hemingway, Plath, ect.

>>8979485
Brian Griffin

>>8983604
Joyce didn't.

>>8979485
He was kind of a chad back in the day

Miguel de Cervantes

>>8979445
bukowski was great at describing the normal man

kafka seemed pretty tortured, and hes good

>>8982311
Pessoa died a virgin through booze..

>>8981328
> he blames the pills not DFWs fucked neurodevelopment