Which novelist had the best answer on how to live life?

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>>9328065
>reading for plot

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>>9328065

Kierkegaard & Dostoevsky

>>9328065
Nietzsche.

Unfortunately now used by faggot teenagers to justify their nihilistic hedonistic tendencies.

>>9328065
Bradley Nowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9rW0q_FJOs

>>9328065
>Goethe
>be high ranking statesman, poet, playwright
>hang with Schiller and Napoleon
>fuck bitches left and right
My nigga

Robert E Howard

Joyce and Proust t b h

Lermontov

david foster wallace

'hauer

>>9328186
What was Proust's answer?

>>9328071
this guy, of course

>>9328099

Nietzsche is useful insofar as he highlights points that other thinkers either missed or were too cowardly to say, but he ultimately takes the whole 'pain and struggle' thing too far, especially the idea of 'the individual struggling against the herd.'

Voltaire? Probably just tacked on though, desu

>>9328065
this:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSSe9PFg0eA/?taken-by=thecatstringoffate

honetly joyce

Dante.

>>9328378
search for the lost time

Not a big fan of Hemingway but the guy knew how to party and enjoy life.

Guy didn't kill himself because he was a faggot and depressed.
He killed himself because he was bored with life, done and seen it all and wanted to go out on his terms.
If that isn't fucking badass I don't know what is.

Tolstoy.

>>9328065
The Unlimited Blade Works route of the Fate/Stay Night visual novel. (Not the anime)

>>9329786
It'll take you 35 hours to get to the answer. And the quality of the translation sucks balls. But it is still the best thought out conclusion I've seen.

>>9329850

which is?

>>9329771

dawg he killed himself because he couldn't cope with the fact that his hypertension prevented him from writing at the level he was previously writing. iirc.

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>Hold up, what about me