/lit/ - Literature

I don’t have any fiction past the early 20th century. I think Phillip K Dick and Blood Meridian are the most modern fiction I own

>>18851318
>I read to escape
>I literally cannot cope with being reminded about everyday life for even a second
it's just a phase, OP

>book set in certain time period features things from that time period
what's your problem OP (other than being a faggot

>>18851318
nice attempt at disguising your cope lol

>>18852457
Because modern day elements are so dull. Who wants to read about characters constantly checking their phones, getting plot points from Twitter and keeping in touch with WhatsApp?
Maybe people will find it charming in its quaintness but right now it’s just boring.

>>18852469
*people in the future will find it charming in its quaintness*

>>18852469
they're certainly not dull; you are just not looking at them from the right angle. to write about 'modern day elements' doubtless requires a new style.

>>18851318
Where do you draw the line? You arbitrarily don’t read anything set in a city after 2000? Are 80s brick cell phones acceptable? Pagers?

>>18852469
i believe this has more to do with the skill of the writer than any inherent dullness in modern technology

>>18852469
>getting filtered by the all-time greatest leaps in information and communication technology
just kys already

>>18851318
>muh born in the wrong generation

>>18852483
I've been thinking about this, there must be a book in the future which incorporates these elements in a way that enables the author to tell a story that couldn't be told without these them.
Are there any books from the past that use the technological advancements from their era in a unique way that makes the book better? Can't think of any right now.

>>18852530
Many many examples... Mysterious phone call in hard boiled detective novels. Steam engine is a dramatic device in lots of novels...

>>18852483
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>>18852545
Do you really believe we could have a great epistolary novel on par with The Sorrows of Young Werther in text format?
There’s a few novels out there are are told entirely in text messages, and the short-lived fad of “phone novels” in Japan. Needless to say those are very shoddy, the format and culture encourage writing messages under 250 characters like
>Wendy’s 4 dinner?
>k 8:30
If tried writing like Goethe but in WhatsApp format it would just look cringe and unrealistic

>>18852530
Sally Rooney used several apps in her writing as integral part of her stories.
>messenger
people communicating in short letters
>facebook
characters stalking each other
>tinder
character cheating on each other within hours
It's like Jane Austen on steroids.

>>18852545
>Phone calls
Don't know why I didn't think of that, maybe I'm just too hung over to think.

>>18852530
consider the v-2 rocket in gravity's rainbow. the whole 'story' is centered around it and determined by it. it affects the psyche in irresistible ways. how can human life 'continue' under such circumstances? it is a new age of barbarity, like the age of giants living in terror of jove and his lightning. slothrop is a prometheus and the rocket is all powerful.

the information age is as many have said another 'bomb' since its effect is almost pure interference and discombobulation. no one knows how to handle it and it disrupts every previous form of life. no one knows what is coming next and things can happen at any time. we are constantly having to 'relocate' so to speak, maybe not physically, but psychologically according to the constant disruption. and it cannot simply be ignored, except of course by the technological mediums which transfer information, like the satellites which look serenely down upon earth no matter what horrific images of human suffering it beams down. these mediums are the 'empty centers' or hinges which remain motionless while everything on the fringe (that is, us) whirls round.

>>18851318
>read cave wall
>see fire
>see wheel
>see use stick with pointy metal thing instead stick with pointy rock thing
>dropped

This is the /lit/ equivalent of being 14 and thinking Whitesnake is like, hella a vibe

>book written in the 19th century features characters who use modern gadgets like smartphones, ipods, USBs, laptops, camcorders etc, and these items are explicitly mentioned and/or are integral to the story.

>>18852379
modern tech absolutely murders good plot and you know it, modern tech is so ugly that you cannot possibly build something aesthetically pleasing around it. it's ugly down to the very essence that's why everyone hates seeing it in fiction

>>18854620
modern technology is fine and always was. you just hate living in a society.

>book written in the late 19th century feature characters who use modern gadgets like cars, radios etc

>>18852638
you sound like a fag and ur shits all retarded

>>18854634
>and then the tranny connected his dilate-o-matic to his iPhone™ and set the slider to "max"

>>18852469
There are things modern technology has done to mankind psychologically and physically that are worth exploring.

>how can I, a 19th century shitposter, enjoy this book, when the heroine dies under the wheels of one those infernal locomotive contraptions

>>18852568
I'm not sure if you intended on persuading us this is a good thing, but if so you have achieved the exact opposite.

>>18851318
>book written in the 9th century BC
the invention of books ruined literature

>reading the Tale of Genji
>all the characters constantly eat with chopsticks and write with brushes
I didn't know this was a history textbook!

I'm pretty sure Lain is the only good work that's ever centred around modern technology

>>18851318
why dont you shitpost on paper instead of 21st century gadgets, faggot?

>>18854706
>pic related
Yeah, like not dying from a leopard attack at the ripe old age of 30.

>>18854620
Seethe more. You're making the same complaints everybody has about everything contemporarily modern since humans developed cognizance.

>>18851318
is there any good literary fiction which makes use of modern means of communication, (besides sci-fi novels, obviously)?

I think I've never read anything like that. Good "literary fiction" with modern gadgets. Any reccs?

>book written in the 21st century features characters who use modern gadgets like smartphones, ipods, USBs, laptops, camcorders etc, and these items are explicitly mentioned and/or are integral to the story.

Mega faggot writes story about 17th century sailor who uses an astrolabe. Haha, queer. Only transsexuals use contemporary technology.

>>18852566
No, of course you can't write like Goethe in a text chain format you dumbass. Brilliant observation. Is the only qualification for good literature to you is if it sounds like an 18th century poet? Like another anon said there are plenty of unique problems we face in modern life that are worth exploring. Obviously phone novels are retarded and are little more than gimmicky light fiction, but modern life and technology is an extremely broad subject to work with and a talented writer worth their salt could definitely create something worth reading in this setting. If you don't think so then thank fuck you're not the one writing, you seem to lack a lot of imagination.