/lit/ - Literature

Eli Wiesel is a giant fucking hack and its disgusting that his works are being praised and read in schools. The bullshit he writes is insane, it's up there with lampshades and bone-soap.
Come to think of it, most Holocaust literature sucks, except maybe Viktor Frankl. At least anne frank has the excuse of being a girl.

>>15375915
lel

>>15351284
I understand what is really at the core of your frustration. My take is showing deep respect for dead men that represent your ideals is fine for the most part. Like that noble jewboy on a stick. It's when you do so to the living that it constitutes a problem. You have to wonder why guys like Mishima have a cult of personality or meme status forming around them, though. We have lost so much faith in ourselves and our institutions that we have resorted to a kind of meme idolatry of people out of vulnerability. It shows dark signs of the state of our world.

>>15351304
Yeah, so far it is, but it's not a biography. I'm not done with it yet though. It's an analysis of rare untranslated works of his and tries to use that information as a way of building a coherent picture of this very flawed but noble man. So far it gives a sense that Mishima is a lifelong dedicated construction of a romantic, but at the same time blended together with him so that there was no longer a distinction between the two. Rankin calls Hiraoka a "performance artist", which is pretty on the mark and justifies the LARP criticism a bit.

I recommend reading some of his novels beforehand for context and because there's spoilers. Reading through I realized I knew jack shit about Temple. That novel flew over my head and explains why I didnt like it very much

dumb niggers

>>15159695

Penguin is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...