/lit/ - Literature

>>13767205
i never liked that controlled opposition boomer

>>13767223
very edgy bro

>>13767205
Not even joking, does anyone else think he is possesed the way his favorite Lovecraft was? By primordial thoughtforms? His Nobel will be a neon gstring on Europe's rotting corpse.

>>13767205
Never particularly cared for him, but the Nobel seems to have stooped low enough to be almos within his reach now.

>>13767240
elaborate. possessed as in actually possessed by demons?

>>13767253
>implying Houellebecq isn't the best writer of our era

>>13767260
Honestly yes. For those who don't come from cultures that believe in demons, you can substitute that concept with something like infected-with-a-thoughtform perhaps. He was institutionalized for severe mental illness before, so maybe that's also an accepted Western explanation for how he looks, the air he gives off, the brutality of his works. To me he seems puppeteered by a diseased energy, cursed.

>>13767205
Idk I can't read French yet

>>13767296
>he's a madman, therefore, demoms
for fuck's sake

i always thought he was shunned in france

>>13767301
Read translations.

>>13767303
There's madmen and then there're people who look like husks whose souls have been sucked out. Take it as metaphor, fine.

>>13767296
never read him nor lovecraft but i'll take your word for when i read them

>>13767313
He's just an old man now and he smokes quite a lot. I think he's surrounded by vice, not demons.

>>13767318
>I think he's surrounded by vice, not demons.
anon...

>>13767328
>vice is totally created by demons bro demos are real dude

>>13767335
>what is demonic opression
>what is demonic possession
>what is demonic obsession

>>13767350
>another delusional o/x/

>>13767370
observe people who seek altered states of consciousness (possession) and those that act in vicious manners without agency (obsession)

it all goes bad once σομα and ψυχη take over πνευμα

Next Nobel laureates:
2019 Atwood & Murakami
2020 DeLillo
2021 McCarthy
2022 Oates
2023 Thiong'o
2024 Rushdie or equivalent
2025 This could be Pynchon or Houellebecq's year if they make it that far

>>13767309
Why read cheap remakes when learning a language is so easy?

>>13767426
If it's so easy why can't you read French as of now?

>>13767423
>Murakami

>>13767411
What of oppression then? And which religious or philosophical tradition do you find has the best discussion of the demonic?

>>13767432
I can read French fine

>>13767449
intense temptations and distress, torment. catholic theology. i suggest this http://www.the-pope.com/lpsycspic.html

rama was a sedevacantist but still

>>13767453
>>13767301

>>13767205
>receives the Nobel Prize
way too young

>>13767423
>Atwood
lel
>Murakami
lel
>three Americans in a row
L E L
>Thiong'o
*Ngugi

tried to learn french by reading. so i went for camus' the stranger. first word is
>aujourd'hui
big nope

>>13767510
that just means yesterday, pleb.

>>13767478
What are you on about?

>>13767522
im a brainlet in the caste system

>>13767532
It's a contradiction. Wait, you're a different faggot??

>>13767537
oh-joor-DU-EE
it's not even that hard

>>13767522
aujourd'hui means today you big piece of moron reetardeed assfgt

>>13767835
kek you're right

betting lists when?