/lit/ - Literature

>sits next to you at a bar
>orders red wine and a platter of charcuterie
>wipes tobacco-stained hand on his peeling scalp
>receives wine and cured meat
>mumbles incoherently in response
>uses an old worn copy of "The Call of Cthulhu" as a coaster
>sneers at a nearby 13 year old
>stubs out his cigarette on some salami and makes a weird French humming noise
>"did you know that masturbation and solitude are the only two things worth writing about, anon?"

>I kissed her softly on the lips, and said, ‘There is no Israel for me.’

That was a kick in the teeth.

Zay sumzing pwofoun', I implore vu.

I enjoyed 'Elementary Particles' (to the extent that one can actually enjoy Elementary Particles) and I hear his work on Lovecraft is pretty good. Any suggestions? Books to avoid?

>>10246809
Hon hon. Look into my eyes. I will never give up on you.

>>10101231
What went wrong?

>mfw Houllebecq wins

S U B M I T

>>9546028
forgot pic

Reactionary post, in regards the recent French Election results.

What is the /lit/ consensus on the work of Houellebecq, especially his most recent work, "Submission"?

>>9463652
take the frogpill

>>9451747
Oui!

>>9313657
One of the greatest contemporary novels of the last two years deals directly with that issues. As far as african american criminality and cultural degeneracy, it is due to barriers thrown up at the publishing level (and the fact that racialism doesnt sell with white moms).

I like to tell lefties they will lose either way, because either nationalist conservatism gains power and stops third world immigration, or leftists will let in enough '''''''refugees''''''' to kickstart Islamisation and we will simply have our reactionary revolution with a bit more exoticism.

Either way, liberalism is done for because it's an ideology without a functioning immune system that offers no gratification. It's a vacuum waiting to be filled by something more assertive.

I hope the European reactionaries win though because I like my booze and charcuterie.

>To spend a weekend in his company is to become an unwitting participant in a sensory-deprivation experiment. External stimuli are reduced to a minimum. Physical movement is discouraged. Likewise talking and eating and any other activity that might detract from the primary objective -- getting from Saturday morning to Sunday night with as little conscious awareness as possible. Living outside Dublin, where Houellebecq moved from Paris last year, helps: he knows almost no one in the city and doesn't like to speak English. When I rang the bell of his suburban town house in June, I was the first person to have done so in quite some time. Houellebecq answered the door in stocking feet, blinked at me with his sad brown eyes and ushered me into the living room. He curled up in a chair with a pack of Silk Cuts and a bottle of Jim Beam and hardly moved for the entire weekend. He murmured obligingly in response to my questions, but finishing a sentence often proved beyond him. Whatever energy he had seemed mostly consumed by the quiet labor of existing. Houellebecq's wife, Marie-Pierre, came and went, refilling liquor glasses and emptying the ashtray. By late afternoon, the room was choked with smoke, and Houellebecq was no longer sober. Through a door, half hidden behind some drapes, was a balcony and directly beyond it the gray expanse of the Irish Sea. When I asked Houellebecq when the tide came in, he seemed taken aback. "I know it moves," he reflected, "but we shut the curtains."

There is nothing you can do. There is no place for people like him in this world.

Can't stand this cunt

Charcuterie, wine and cigarettes.

>>8961770
>tfw western culture is evolutionarily unsound

I've made my peace with it, will probably concert and get a loyal young wife.

>>8945585
JUST

what does this guy write about, how good is it, why is it good or bad, what is his problem?

>>8931236
>>8931254
The only correct answers.

>In a totally liberal sexual system certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude. Economic liberalism is an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. Sexual liberalism is likewise an extension of the domain of the struggle, its extension to all ages and all classes of society. On the economic plane Raphael Tisserand belongs in the victors' camp; on the sexual plane in that of the vanquished. Certain people win on both levels; others lose on both. Businesses fight over certain young professionals; women fight over certain young men; men fight over certain young women; the trouble and strife are considerable.

>It's been fucked for a long time, since the beginning. You will never represent, Raphael, a young girl's erotic dream. It is necessary to come to terms with this; such things are not for you. In any case, it is already too late. The sexual failure that you have known since your adolescence and the frustration that has followed you since the age of thirteen has left in you an indelible mark. Supposing that that you could someday get women - something which I very frankly doubt - that will not be enough. Nothing will ever be enough. You will remain an orphan of those adolescent romances that you never knew. In you, the wound is already painful; it will become more and more so. An atrocious, bitterness, without remission will end up filling your heart.

>Chaotic Evil