/lit/ - Literature

>>12593070
Autism

E-hem. Stop making garbage threads about my favorite author you fucks. For real just fuck. Also stop putting a right wing label on him. You don’t get him, I talk with him on the meta plain of being. Thank you and goodnight.

>>12593204
What is right-wing about role models?

The guys at The School of Life think all books are self-improvement books. I agree with them. You can learn from literature how to drive your life.
Answering your question I'll say I like the old man and the sea, the Bukowski versión oficial that man, the bohemian artsy fags, but I guess the book where I've felt very strongly that I wanted to be the protagonist is "memorias de Adriano" by Marguerite Yourcenar it's about one of the last good Roman Emperor. He's the perfect combination of Greek and Roman culture. I think you'll like it

>>12593222
Don't mind that dude he is just mad as shit that right wing folks like and talk about Jünger.

>>12593204
u mad

>>12593204
He hated democracy to his dying breath. He sympathized with the Vendean Revolt of the French Revolution.

>“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”

>>12593313
Yes, I know. Doesn’t change the fact that I hate seeing him being labeled

>>12593357
fair enough

>>12593357
Nobody labeled him until you sperged out in this thread. Dumbass.

>>12593477
Nobody labeled him because I sperged* see you next Jünger thread. I’ll be there.

>>12593070
Reminder that Walter Benjamin BTFO this larping German faggot

>>12593530
Reminder that in the Battle of Ypres, Ernst Junger chanced upon his gravely wounded brother, pulled him out of a ditch, and carried him to safety, almost certainly saving his life, while Walter Benjamin was busy looking for the fastest train to Switzerland in order to avoid the draft.

>>12593530
fuck off with that disgusting subversive kike

>>12593560
Fake news

>>12593749
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42800179?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
>Benjamin was, as it happened, refused, and when it came the turn of his age group to be drafted that fall, he faked palsy and was able to postpone induction until another order arrived to report in January 1917. Again he was able to avoid consciption by trickery, undergoing hypnosis to simulate symptoms of sciatica. Shortly thereafter, Benjamin left germany for Bern, Switzerland with the hypnotist, who was also his new wife Dora Kellner. This was Benjamin's first emigration from his "native" country in a period of crisis, but not his last. After the armistice. following a short stay in Austria the Benjamins returned to Berlin in March 1919, where he spent the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic until forced to flee to Paris in 1933.

>>12593749
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42800179?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
>Benjamin was, as it happened, refused, and when it came the turn of his age group to be drafted that fall, he faked palsy and was able to postpone induction until another order arrived to report in January 1917. Again he was able to avoid consciption by trickery, undergoing hypnosis to simulate symptoms of sciatica. Shortly thereafter, Benjamin left Germany for Bern, Switzerland with the hypnotist, who was also his new wife Dora Kellner. This was Benjamin's first emigration from his "native" country in a period of crisis, but not his last. After the armistice, following a short stay in Austria the Benjamins returned to Berlin in March 1919, where he spent the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic until forced to flee to Paris in 1933.

guys can you take your politics out of this thread, I just wanted to talk about role models in books. rightwing or not, Junger is one of them. are you telling me that there isn't a character that does things or handles things in a way that you admire? do you really need to shit up another thread on some culture war crap?

>>12593810
Prince Andrey

>>12593070
To retrace a hero's prophetic footsteps the times must fulfil the circumstance. What can you do if the times don't provide?

>>12593792
>>12593774
i said FAKE NEWS

>>12593749
you thought a guy named "walter benjamin" is going to risk his life in a nationalistic european war?

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Therese of Lisieux

Hector of Troy

>>12593070
Alyosha although it's almost impossible if you're.on 4chan

What are some literary characters that have dealt with feelings of anxiety, resentment, depression, etc., and eventually overcame them?

I only know of characters that are the middle of such negative episodes, i.e., Holden Caulfield, The Underground Man, the protagonist of Hunger by Knut Hamsun, etc. But I don't know of anybody who grows out of it, whether it'd be from maturing as a young adult or going through a second rebirth later in life. Who knows if Holden Caulfield didn't end up like the other two characters mentioned? The closest character I can think of that suits this profile isn't even from literature. It's fucking Rocky Balboa and the resentment he feels wasting away his talent in grimy post-industrial Philadelphia because nobody believed in him, nobody appreciated his good-nature, and that he was employed in a vocation that hurt his soul (being a loan shark's muscle).

And even then, the lens into Rocky's mind is mostly gained by the projection of his mental state onto his surroundings and from the gentle things he does despite the lack of appreciation for it. You don't really gain a glimpse into what has been eating Rocky away until he unleashes a decade of anger at Mickey when he finally decides to give Rocky a chance based on a fluke event. It baffles my mind how staring into a personal abyss, struggling to have meaningful relationships with other people, and coming to terms with society at large is something that many intelligent yet depressed people deal with, but relatively few people have written about how it manifests and what changes in attitude have to occur to start to move forward.

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>>12596103
>not Diomedes
cringe

>>12593070
Holden Caulfield

>>12593530
reminder that Junger is celebrating in the valhalla rn and that kike benjamin is being sodomized by satan

>>12597632
Geralt looks like how I feel