/lit/ - Literature

>>16710795
Into the Miso Soup by Murakami

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>>12155968
Dystopia as a genre is often misunderstood and misused today because of the plague that is Juvenile Fiction and people aping 1984. A proper dystopia is a deconstruction of a "Perfect Place," in which one takes an ideal or ideology's proclaimed endpoint and show how terrible place to live in, even when all of its precepts are followed in both the letter and the spirit.

Brave New World and its predecessor, We, take the popular notions of the 1920s, such as Taylorism, Freudian Psychology, and Planned Societies, and implements them in the exact ways people like the Fabian Society or early Soviet State advocated to demonstrate the fundamental shortcomings of their ideologies. In that light, Zamyatin and Huxley add new meaning to the pun in the world "Utopia"; these "Good" Places will always be "No" Places because no one will actually want to live in them if given an informed choice.

>>12087753
>tfw library priest won't exorcise you

>>12061135
ty tarnasbtw and dead serious, also pretty sure ur bombstrap charls irl

I've gotten a job at a hotel through nepotism but I don't want to work, yet I also crave new experiences. Leaving my life of masturbating to the feet of cartoon females, idling my computer on a video game I play sporadically while I browse the chon all day, and occasionally reading (I actually haven't picked up a book I stopped in the middle of for weeks), is a hard comfy life to pull myself away from. I had to wear pants for the first time in months today to go to a formal interview. The hotel caters to upper middle class internationals and middle class nationals with some surplus money, and I despise the middle classes because they produce such a crowd of shallow often effete faggots. I'd prefer to stay on the dole doing courses every few months to keep the neetbux flowing, but my parents will be deeply disappointed and begin to resent me, which is the path to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5AkBBQWZR4

this or eventual homelessness if they have the gonads to kick me out which I'm almost certain they do. If I had a car and knew how to drive it'd be nice to live out of it I figure.

>>11230485
A Winter's Tale, by Helprin