What are some books about ageing? Or simply one with an old protagonist?
>>24697021These are the wages of gooning. Repent.
>>24697021Don Quixote main character is around 50 years old. Not ancient but not young either.
>>24697021The road, by don Cormac, the father is always trying to stop the grip of death on his tired body.
>The Stone Angel>A Slight Trick of the Mind>Diary of a Mad Old Man >The Sound of the Mountain
This slut is like 25, damn.
The Savage Detectives always felt like a story about aging and closing of doors to me.
>>24697021Max Frisch: Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän
>>24697021The death of Ivan ilyich
>>24697021God I love women this age. When they're just turning the corner.
>>24697021
>>24697021King Lear
>>24698591brutal book
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
>>24697021>nobody mentioned the picture of dorian gray....
Nobody mentioned The Bridges Of Madison County
The Old Man and the Sea
>>24697021the tartar steppe>"youth ends when one ceases to take the stairs two at a time."
Elephants Can Remember
The GLass Bead GameSteppenwolf
>>24697021she could have been my tradwife, why did it have to end like this...
>>24697888I'm 26 and look like a shriveled nutsack so I can't complain.
>>24697021>being a deathcuck that thinks aging is part of the cycle of life or somethingCringehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ending_Aging
>>24697021STAGE PLAYS— William Shakespeare, ‘King Lear’Man puts political power in the hands of women; disaster ensues.— Sophocles, ‘Oedipus at Colonus’Blind guy dispenses life advice; dies.— Samuel Beckett, ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’Wretched old man eats bananas, listens to tapes he recorded decades before, crawls towards death.— Samuel Beckett, ‘Endgame’Wretched old man crawls towards death with the help of his faithful dogsbody and a random couple in dustbins.NOVELLAS— Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol’Old skinflint mends ways.— Thomas Mann, ‘Death in Venice’Old faggot lusts uselessly after young Polish boy in a not-at-all-autobiographical way.— Ernest Hemingway, ‘The Old Man And The Sea’Kindly old guy gives some hungry sharks a square meal.SHORT STORIES— Alice Munro, ‘The Bear Came Over The Mountain’Married couple find their relationship coming under strain when she goes senile, forgets him and starts hunting for a new guy.— Raymond Carver, ‘After the Denim’Married couple find that bingo cannot entirely compensate for the horrors of ageing.— Charles Bukowski, ‘A Dollar and Twenty Cents’Sixty-something guy has amassed $1.20 over the course of his life.— Hemingway, ‘A Clean Well-Lighted Place’Old guy goes to cafê.POEMS— Alfred Tennyson, ‘Ulysses’Ageing king gets the gang back together for one last adventure.— Alfred Tennyson, ‘Tithonus’Guy asked for immortality but forgot to ask for perpetual youth too.— T. S. Eliot, ‘Gerontion’Old gentleman ponders whether the twentieth century is a great improvement on what came before it.— Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Mary Gloster’Self-made millionaire on his deathbed tells his son what a useless faggot he is.— Ezra Pound, ‘Piere Vidal Old’Wrinkled codger remembers the good old days of going mad with lust for a hot babe and running around the woods like a wolf.— Constantine Cavafy, ‘An Old Man’, ‘Candles’, ‘The Souls of Old Men’, ‘Very Seldom’, etc etc etcWhen you get old & ugly you can’t have casual fag sex all the time any more so honestly what’s the point?
>>24697021NOVELS— Iris Murdoch, ‘The Sea, The Sea’Amusingly pompous & clueless theatre director retires to the seaside & recalls women he’s known (in particular the One That Got Away).— Kazuo Ishiguro, ‘The Remains of the Day’50/60-something guy ponders whether attempting to be the Ultimate Butler was a life well lived.— C. S. Lewis, ‘Till We Have Faces’Ageing queen remembers her sister & gets annoyed at the gods for either a) not existing or b) existing but hiding.— Samuel Beckett, ‘Molloy’, ‘Malone Dies’, ‘The Unnameable’Various wretched old men crawl towards death.— Joseph Heller, ‘God Knows’King David ponders life; tries to get Bathsheba to sleep with him one last time.— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ‘Memories of my Melancholy Whores’Old guy remembers whores he’s know, melancholy and otherwise.— Anthony Burgess, ‘Earthly Powers’Old faggot ponders life, love and the Catholic Church.— John Updike, ‘Rabbit At Rest’Finally we’re rid of this self-centred prick.— Kingsley Amis, ‘The Old Devils’Bunch of old farts sit around pondering the existential horror of being stuck in Wales.— W. G. Sebald, ‘The Rings of Saturn’Old bloke goes on walking holiday and ponders stuff plotlessly.
Mishima's The Sea of Fertility. Precocious student Honda turned a decrepit rich lawyer in the span of four books.
>>24697021 off the top of my head...Death of Ivan IlyichOld Man and the SeaPere GoriotPoor Folks (an old dude falls in love with a young woman)Stoner (arguably about aging?)Nobody Writes to the ColonelSiddarthaLove in the time of Cholera
>>24699575Never read Cavafy but heard good things about him. How much of his shit is homoerotic? What percentage would you say? I'm not a homophobe or anything but just not interested in that shit.
>>24699579>Malone Diesbest answer in the thread
>>24699643>Never read Cavafy but heard good things about him.He's good. Poetry doesn't usually translate well, and the better it is, the more gets lost. He's a notable exception. He has a very distinct voice and you can recognize it right away, even in translation (even through very different translations of the same piece).>How much of his shit is homoerotic? What percentage would you say?A fair bit of his stuff is him in his 40s/50s (he was a late bloomer, as poets go) remembering his youth with lots of random casual sex and bemoaning the onset of age and basically trying to re-live it via memory. Ageing holds a particular horror for homosexuals, for sure. However there's a lot of historical stuff too (he was really interested in Greek history).>not interested in that shit.I'm not a big fan either but I don't mind it from him. He manages to not be distasteful, in some strange way. His tone is quite cool, often self-mocking, never vulgar.
>>24697021The Pier by Rayner HeppenstallRight old bastard gets his revenge
>>24699575A FEW MORE POEMS— Dylan Thomas, ‘I See the Boys Of Summer’Supposedly DT was at the seaside and was struck by the contrast between the children playing and the decrepit old men sunbathing and wanted to rush out and warn the former how they were going to turn into the latter tomorrow if they didn’t watch out.— Dylan Thomas, ‘Lament’Rake gets old and suddenly discovers virtue; many such cases!— Robert Frost, ‘Provide, Provide’Being old sucks. Being old and poor really sucks, so don’t do that.— Sylvia Plath, ‘Mirror’You thought this poem was about a mirror but then it turns out it’s actually about . . .— John Berryman, ‘Dream Songs #8’Humorous-but-not-really riff on what the years take away.— Philip Larkin, ‘Skin’When you get older your skin gets wrinkly. So have lots of sex when you’re young and attractive. Hmmm . . . I didn't do that. Damn.— Philip Larkin, ‘The View’Being fifty sucks. Damn.— Philip Larkin, ‘The Old Fools’Getting senile must really suck. One more thing to look forward to I suppose. Damn.
>>24699415>materialistic death anxiety babble
>>24697021She rubs her jizz-covered hand on her forehead whenever she finishes. Unhygienic goon.
>>24699702Thanks for the patient answer. I think I'll buy his collected works.
>>24697888She just turned 28
>>24697021Job
>>24703945Jesus, time just marches on...
>>24703945that poor Dutch girl has hit the wall before finding a white Dutch bf.Sad!
She can't go five minutes without talking about bestiality.
>>24699641I just read Siddhartha the other day, why does he choose to live a life of indulgence? Does he say it was his youthful vanity and pretentious intellectualism, or just he justify his choice as necessary for him to attain enlightenment? I remember he said that he was "one of those ones", the kind of people that need to change constantly to end up where they need to be. Is this a recognition that there are many paths, different for each? I remember he said that returning to a spiritual life felt like retracing his steps, but without the youthful vigour that made it so easy the first time. That one felt familiar.
>>24697021How do we solve the incel problem on /lit/? /Lit/ is the last bastion of literature on the internet but it's full of thinly veiled incel threads like this one. I think there should be a rule where discussing women at all is a bannable offense. Female authors, female characters, female booktubers, female everything. No one is interested in actually discussing that genuinely anyway
>>24706106If somebody puts Leonie in the OP he's simply trying to ensure that there's always someone bumping the thread to talk about her so he maximizes his book recs. Last one I saw lasted more than 10 days
>>24698555Trips of truthFinally someone who understandsIt's why I prefer women without makeup
>>24697021germanic women age like milk
*would*
Keep seething about not having her. I've been reading a lot of Neville Goddard and I'm confident she'll be my gf very soon.Sorry not sorry guys, but it's time you guys look for somebody else.
>>24697021>>24705853Does she not sleep at night why does she have those bags
>>24706592Isn't she married
>>24707117No not yet, I haven't proposed.But if you're talking with another man I'm pretty sure she isn't (nothing even indicates she has a new bf). Unless she constantly removes her ring to *~break free~* from *~society's norms <3~*Either way that won't stop me if she is. She's some sort of she/they and writes erotica so I have a good ten years before she decides to get children
