/lit/ - Literature

>"How are we to judge Lovecraft’s two-year venture into matrimony? There is, certainly, enough blame to spread to all parties: to the aunts for being cool to the entire matter and for failing to provide either financial or emotional support to the struggling couple; to Sonia for feeling that she could mould Lovecraft to suit her wishes; and, of course, to Lovecraft himself for being generally thoughtless, spineless, emotionally remote, and financially incompetent."

>"It seems hardly profitable at this juncture to blame Lovecraft for his many failings as a husband—nothing can be accomplished now by such a schoolmasterly attitude—but much in his behaviour is inexcusable. The most inexcusable, of course, is the decision to marry at all, a decision he made with very little awareness of the difficulties involved (beyond any of the financial concerns that emerged unexpectedly at a later date) and without any sense of how unsuited he was to be a husband. Here was a man with an unusually low sex drive, with a deep-seated love of his native region, with severe prejudice against racial minorities, suddenly deciding to marry a woman who, although several years older than he, clearly wished both a physical as well as intellectual union, and deciding also to uproot himself from his place of birth to move into a bustling, cosmopolitan, racially heterogeneous megalopolis without a job and, it appears, entirely content to be supported by his wife until such time as he got one."

>"Once actually married, Lovecraft displayed singularly little consideration for his wife. He found it much more entertaining to spend most of his evenings, and even nights, with the boys, and quickly ceased bothering to get home early so that he could go to sleep together with Sonia. He did make a concerted effort to find work in 1924, however bunglingly he set about it, but virtually gave up the attempt in 1925–26. Once he came to the realisation that married life did not suit him, he seems to have become entirely content—when Sonia was forced to move to the Midwest in 1925—to conduct a marriage at long distance by correspondence."

Do you think a man like H.P. Lovecraft could ever have been happily married?

>prefers to live in poverty writing ghost stories rather than getting a job, becoming a husband, and fathering children

What drove this man to do what he did?

What stories or collections do I begin with?

>H.P. Lovecraft lived with his family most of his adult life
>Robert E. Howard lived with his parents his entire adult life
>Clark Ashton Smith lived with his parents most of his adult life

They're literally me.

He’s my favorite autist.

> "Hemingway is the sort of guy I intensely admire without any great impulse to imitate him. His prosaic objectivity is a very high form of art--which I wish I could parallel--but I can't get used to the rhythm of his short, harsh sentences."
>- H. P. Lovecraft to J. Vernon Shea, 18 Sep 1931, LJS 56

What would Hemingway have thought of HP Lovecraft?

ironybro le niggerman memes aside, why isn't lovecraft appreciated as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, a modern day shaman who was cursed to be born in world that forgot the old ways?

What should I read first?

>>19157158
>tfw I have this hairstyle

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>>19117104
>And the more I study the question, the more firmly am I convinced that the one supreme race is the Teuton. Observe the condition in the British Isles. The English are wholly Teutonic, and therefore dominant. The southern Scotch and eastern Irish are also of that blood—they certainly surpass their fellows to the north and west. The Welsh, who have no Teutonic blood, are of little account. Had it not been for the Teutonic infusion at the beginning of the Dark Ages, southern Europe would have been lost. Who were these early “French” kings and heroes that founded French civilisation? Teutons, to a man! It was the Teutonic might of Charles Martel that drove the Saracen Semite out of Gaul. Who were the Normans? Teutons of the North. It is pitiful to me to hear apostles of equity pipe out that other races can equal this foremost of all—this successor to the Roman race in power and virility.

>*makes Redditors seethe*
>*makes Redditors lie and say he has bad prose*

Are his works fascist in character?

Was he based?

Who is your favorite Welsh writer?

>OOOOooooOO SO SCARY
>I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M SCARED OF BUT ITS SCARY

What’s with all the contrarians shitting on him? I know he acknowledged some of his stuff wasn’t good but still.

Is there a connection between being mentally unwell and being creative?

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>>14678196
this is the best list to start with, well chosen.

>>14538475
>non Euclidean geometries

Wait, is that an Italian crossing the street? Oh no, its happening again, im starting to feel a bit loony

bros.... I just saw a nigger.... IM GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANE

>He was original, he introduced an entirely new genre of horror
>He was a talented writer, his stories are pure poetry
>Barely any useless details and straight to the point storytelling

Yes.