I am looking for literature that portrays the aristocracy and its spirit positively, rather than the spirit of the proletariat or the merchants/bourgeoisie.
Hillbilly Elegy
>>25351335You should read A Confederacy of Dunces. It won't give you what you requested, but it will give you an accurate look of what you're like.
>>25351335The flower of the nobility ended in the dark ages, mostly. Once the modern period began it was fundamentally rotten. Read about Indo-Iranian pastoral clans and the Crusades.
>>25351335read national epics like cantar de mio cid and das nibelungenlied
The Marriage of Figaro is considered one of the finest operas of all time and its based on a play that ends with Figaro denouncing the aristocracy and saying inheritance should be abolished. It is arguably the height of art under aristocratic control and funding.You might try Shakespeare since he contrasts aristocracy with the underclass in the Henriad, but almost any literature which contrasts aristocracy with the working class does not depict aristocracy in an especially favorable light. One might argue Odysseus beating the pleb in the Iliad but even the Odyssey depicts the entire aristocracy of Odysseus's home as absolute shitheads and depicts his swineherd pretty sympathetically, though he does kill all the slaves who collaborated
>>25351365Maybe you're right, although we have great aristocratic non-fiction, like Nietzsche or Evola, there is a real lack of aristocratic fiction.
>>25351335Literally War and Peace, specifically the Rostov and Bolkonskij households.
>>25351348Nah, it was going all the way into the 19th and early 20th century. The thing is that it was carried on by the lower nobility, not the high nobility as everyone wants to imagine.
>>25351900Also the middle aristocracy and part of the conservative high aristocracy.
