Literature Is Entertainment or It Is Nothing

[Anonymous No.21591835]

>Neddal Ayad: Have you ever written anything that you consider too dark or too heavy to publish?

>Thomas Ligotti: No, but I’ve conceived of stories that were just too disturbing for me to write. If you can write something, then it’s only so disturbing. Anything truly disturbing can’t even be written. Even if it could, no one could stand to read it. And writing is essentially a means of entertainment for both the writer and the reader. I don’t care who the writer is — literature is entertainment or it is nothing. Some readers would object and point to someone like Lautréamont’s Les Chants de Maldoror affiliate link. If they want to see it that way, it’s fine with me. Who am I deny someone their demonic heroes? No one has that much credibility in the history of humanity, nor ever will.

DFWsisters.....I don't feel so good

[Anonymous No.21591840]

ligotti ahead of his time with the affiliate links
cynical profiteering

[Anonymous No.21591847]

>>21591840
Kek

[Anonymous No.21591857]

>>21591835
Citing Ligotti in your argument that literature needs to be entertaining is wild because he is one of the most boring and unimpressive cult authors alive.

[Anonymous No.21591875]

>>21591857
>boring
Get better imagination

[Anonymous No.21591899]

>>21591835
Just when I didn't think I could love this man more.

He's 100% correct and this enrages 90% of the pseudo-intellectual morons posting ''What did I think of it'' and ''Look at my shelf it has philosophy on it".

No one gives a shit.

[Anonymous No.21591934]

>>21591835
You seem to think DFW would disagree with this when in fact he probably wouldn't.
But there is something to be said about these meaningless quotes about what is entertainment and what isn't.
Just because the message has a medium doesn't mean the medium is the message. In the same vein that literature can be entertaining doesn't mean that it is entertainment.
I don't think Ligotti has much to say about either art or entertainment even though he comes across as such a shallow minded person enough for his work inspires pop philosophers and television shows.
But shutting down the question for the distinction between the two is moronic, at best.

[Anonymous No.21591996]

>>21591899
>durr he correct because he affirm my insecure midwit bias
eat a cactus

[Anonymous No.21592045]

>>21591996
>pseudo-intellectual morons posting ''What did I think of it'' and ''Look at my shelf it has philosophy on it".

Did it hit too close to home, anon?

[Anonymous No.21592059]

>Thomas Ligotti
We read his Conspiracy book in an underclassmen course at my shitty university and dismantled it pretty thoroughly. A quarter of these students likely dropped out of colle the mind you

[Anonymous No.21592086]

>>21591875
tell that to Ligotti

[Anonymous No.21592087]

>>21591835
Fair enough. I'm no great fan of his, but yeah, we read fiction in our free time, because we want to. Writers know that, even if the thing they're writing is a modernist puzzle, that's a sort of entertainment too

[Anonymous No.21592093]

>>21591875
>oh my science is that puppet that is also a metaphor for the falseness of human consciousness?
>niggerscuriel save me!

[Anonymous No.21592115]

>>21591835
So pic rel is nothing? Nice self-own.

[Anonymous No.21592143]

>>21592045
>ligotti midwit
It's no surprise that philosophy chads live in your head rent free

[Anonymous No.21592165]

>>21592143
Could have just told me you were a try-hard mega virgin to begin with, but this post will do.

[Anonymous No.21592187]

>>21592165
>cope hominem
>try-hard
I accept your concession but it's not really rewarding. Like taking candy from a child or beating a woman.

[Anonymous No.21592199]

>>21592143
>the sort of people who care about iq tests score higher on iq tests
Really makes you think

[Anonymous No.21592282]

>>21591835
Anything that isn't about survival or gaining resources for survival could be considered entertainment and in that case reading and writing fall under the entertainment category. But I suspect that entertainment means more than what you think it means.

[Anonymous No.21592694]

>>21592199
>you don't get it like I just don't care bro

[Anonymous No.21593140]

>>21591934
>work inspires pop philosophers and television shows
You're a fag. Tons of underground writers and critics suck his dick. There was even a Ligotti core chart floating around /lit/.

[Anonymous No.21593168]

>>21592059
>dismantled it pretty thoroughly.
Link your book

[Anonymous No.21593172]

>>21592115
That's not literature. Nonetheless that isn't a "non-fiction" book either