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20th century lit is Bolshevik slop

>>24744963
>90% of great literature were written
Good to see we can trust your literary expertise.

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When earth's last thesis is copied
From the theses that went before,
When idea from fact has departed
And bare-boned factlets shall bore,
When all joy shall have fled from study
And scholarship reign supreme;
When truth shall 'baaa' on the hill crests
And no one shall dare to dream;

When all the good poems have been buried
With comment annoted in full
And art shall bow down in homage
To scholarship's zinc-plated bull,
When there shall be nothing to research
But the notes of annoted notes,
And Baalam's ass shall inquire
The price of imported oats;

Then no one shall tell him the answer
For each shall know the one fact
That lies in the special ass-ignment
From which he is making his tract.
So the ass shall sigh uninstructed
While each in his separate book
Shall grind for the love of grinding
And only the devil shall look.

>>24744963
>90% of great literature were written in the 20th century.
90% of ALL literature was written in the 20th century. Funny how the demand for books skyrockets with literacy rates.

I love 19th century literature and 20th century literature
I don't know why but 19th century english literature is quite boring to me besides Melville

>>24745497
because their sentences have more than two nested clauses

>oh my god they put the scenes out of order this so fucking cerebral

>>24744963
The modernists discovered that, for the novel, form, structure, and rhythm (the repetition of images, diction, and plot motifs) are more important than strict verisimilitude (a.k.a. "Realism"). Books should be like dreams, not autofiction. The novel is a poem.

More literature was written in the 20th century than all of previous history, you are just playing number games. Fuck off, stemfag.

>>24744963
I don't understand the appeal of modernist literature. Attempting to mimic consciousness (whatever that means) or produce a certain mood strike me as cheap and banal when compared to literary works that met the traditional standards of greatness. Playing a different game entirely is a decisive regression. It's like your friend asks you to go see a band and you show up expecting to enjoy the live music and instead the band starts banging on random symbols and chords and you have an immediate revulsion to the whole thing, but then your friend explains they don't play songs in the traditional sense; they recreate a feeling of disorientation and fragmentation. I might agree they accomplished their goal, but still, I was promised music, not hypnosis or a sound thesis.