/lit/ - Literature

>>12620342
i honestly don't have much patience for fiction either, i prefer philosophy stuff. but i especially like those works that seem to understand my obsessions and fixations better than i understand them myself.

Land isn't a cozy author. Heidegger, Lacan and Girard all gave me a feeling of *relief* when i read them, the sense of going, oh, fucking awesome, at least somebody understands these phobias and pathologies that i have. i'm re-reading this rn and it feels pretty good like that. maybe because i am just in some deep level so utterly narcissistic that i need an ultra-narcissist like Lacan to convince me that i'm much less special than i think i am. i'm fine with this!

everybody's different tho. i like Land because he's a true monster, Revenge of Modernity, writ large, and death to irony. sometimes irony just leaves you feeling like you're drowning. but there's another aspect of this too, which is - once you have had enough of /acc to flush out the neoliberal bullshit, the radical left bullshit and even the far-right bullshit (although Land of course is going to say the far right's bullshit is more agreeable than the others) you (read: me) drift back towards a kind of a floaty central place, where you can engage with ideas without getting trigged or possessed or revolted or seduced by them. that's my own arc, anyways.

>>12620371
top-5 novels of the 20C for me, maybe top 3. i was completely thunderstruck.