/lit/ - Literature

>>16784962
He's not the stereotype. The stereotype applies to him.

>>16784977
Big brain deepity.

I wish I had aesthetic depression instead of this gay ass nerd depression.

>>16784962
A hard life, huh. I see

>>16784962
who is he? why is he important? shouldn't we be talking about his books rather than him?

>>16786909
Osamu Dazai, and he's almost synonymous with his book No Longer Human since it's semi-autobiographical.

>>16786955
hmmm....thanks i guess..is the book too depressing then? i've been reading a lot of Dosto lately and i don't feel like dying soon

>>16786373
t. ESLfag

>>16786971
It's quite depressing. The protagonist doesn't kill himself in the novel but he's left broken. He was inspired by Dostoyevsky, I believe.

>>16786971
>is the book too depressing then?
the childhood chapters were about as "literally me" as I've ever experienced in literature, it affected me deeply.

>>16784962
What if it was No Longer Coomin', and it was about a man's struggle to gain mastery over his masturbatory habits?

>>16787252
reddit post

he's not a stereotype he's a carefully crafted product

>>16789405
The first proposition doesn’t invalidate the second one

He killed himself so reading and identifying yourself with the book seems counterproductive at worst and an extremely awful idea at best.

>>16786571
Define the difference.

>>16784962
>troubled artist
>has an easy life and all carnal pleasures available to him
Yeah sure, poser.

TROUBLED ARTIST EMO
MEME BULL SHIT

>>16784962
Geza Csath maybe? Just swinging in the dark over here.

>>16789847
>Suicide is bad
Heh

>>16789970
$$$ and looks?

>>16789970
The former, like Dazai experiences true depression. He has fucked many women, can do as he pleases, but none of it has ever made him happy. The latter sits around crying because he can't get a girlfriend. The latter is a failed normalfag, while the former could have anything a normalfag has and it does not prevent their misery.

Peter Weiss, Henry Miller, Tao Lin

>>16790368
Csáth was a fucking retard who got addicted to opium just to see what being addicted to opium is.

>>16790413
Yes I read his Wikipedia entry as well. Also the books.

>>16784962
Drieu la Rochelle

>>16790432
I never read his wikipedia entry, I studied about him in high school.

>>16784962
Aristocratic playboys who ended their lives in debauched misery? That's the game we're playing the pattern we're looking for? The Romantic Era was filled with aristocracy but drug use didn't because widespread (or maybe just wasn't discussed) until later. Do this is sort of a small target. Aside from maybe pic related I dunno.

>>16790557
Pic related

>>16786571
People with aesthetic depression just call it melancholy, obviously because it’s more aesthetic. Only nerds have “depression” because it implies the top of the hierarchy is sitting on you and smushing you’re soul in their smothering weight. Melancholia is what you call it when you’re an art school poser.

>>16784962
Not degenerate enough to do drugs and hooker thots, but was an archetypal troubled artist.

>>16790663
reading this currently
fuck me it's depressing, but quite good so far