post-purpose

>>9453596
>its another "contemporary literature is dead" thread by someone who doesnt read contemporary literature

I plan on being known as a writer who fucked off and did his own thing, which in its own way was brilliant but which wasn't really connected to the trends of the era, at least beyond the simple osmosis that comes from being immersed in said era.

lol if you think the end of the cold war was somehow significant compared to all the events from 1991-2050, you got another thing coming, buddy.

>>9453596
>its another internet dilettante thread

>>9453596
>nihilism
New Insincerity / Post-Irony isn't nihilistic you tard

>>9453596
>rick and morty will be used to summarize our generation.
I'm okay with this.

Rick and Morty representing our generation is better than having I love Lucy represent us.

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4chan will be used to summarize our generation.
>>9453641
Imposible nowadays.

>>9453596
>>our generation
>>post says more about OP than our generation

>>9453596
>post cold war era

the cold war never ended fampai

>>9453596
Dude, have you even listened to Dylan's stuff apart from Blonde on Blonde? I wouldn't blame you because apparently, neither did the Swedish academy.

He has written many more sappy love tunes (good ones though) than he did picaresque, surreal pieces like Visions of Johanna. I think we have yet to see a writer worthy of labeling the greatest of this century. Dylan will be timeless, sure, but because he carved out a stylistic niche with a combination of his voice and eccentric personality.

Tbh, i think the next literary paradigm will be a return to modernism. People will grow tired eventually of post-modernism's self-aggrandizing and irony for irony's sake, and the writing of Generation Z will do for the Internet what the pre-war writers like Hemingway and Kafka did for modernity: coming to terms with systems and networks they were fundamentally incompatible with. Just substitute industry for the Internet, and wait for some young, self-conscious literati to summon the courage to write about Trump, the alt-right, and SJWs with a smattering of actual sympathy.

>>9453641
Good for you, I don't see how someone can actually write about our era without being a cancerous faggot.

>>9454230
I don't think that's true. Every era has something about it worth writing about. Even if you set out to be totally opposed to this era, that opposition should be enough for a story or two.