In recent times, /lit/ has been discussing literature written by Generation Z or younger authors.This book, written by one Nelio Biedermann, 22, recently came out to much praise.Has anyone here read it?Premise seems interesting.>At the turn of the 20th century, the Lázárs welcome their newest member in their rural summer estate, surrounded by a menacingly dark, enchanting forest. Lajos von Lázár is a baby boy with translucent skin and light-blue eyes who looks nothing like the rest of his family. Sándor, the imposing patriarch, is ashamed of his son’s peculiarity. Ilona finds her baby brother quite ugly. Mária is terrified that her son’s uncanny resemblance to the stagehand who died a couple weeks earlier might spell disaster. While Imre, Sándor’s brother whose otherworldly foresight is often confused for insanity, is struck by visions of a great catastrophe.
>>25358727So read the fkn book nigger
>>25358739It's on my list
>>25358742Having a list is really really gay.It means you're reading as a chore, probably in a misguided attempt to become more impressive
He likes the appearances of Thomas Mann but writes like Harry Potter. Judge of yourselves>THE BUZZING OF A BEE trapped between slatted shutter and window. Narrow strips of light slanting into the room and coming to rest on the flowery blanket, the Persian carpet, the pompous, dark furniture, and the yellow wallpaper. Thus the day began.>Opening her eyes, Ilona saw the yellow light coming into her room very differently from how it did in the manor house, and realised that it was spring.>At home she had difficulty getting up in the morning and thought that almost nothing could be worse than the shrill ringing of the alarm clock, which first bored into her dreams, then violently wrenched her from them. But here, in Héviz, where there was no alarm, only the buzzing of the bee and at most the pealing of the bells, she liked to get up.>Nor, upon rising here, did she have to face her father, who needed do nothing more than rustle his newspaper to put her in a foul mood for Mrs. Major’s lessons. No, here she got up, went barefoot to the window, delighting in the parquet floor which felt so different from back home, and pulled up the roller shutters. In the manor house this was Ida’s job and usually the last means of getting her out of bed.>Ilona opened the window. The bee flew off through the green branches of the chestnut tree. In the street, passersby, carriages, and vegetable sellers with wooden carts got out of the way of the automobile that Mr. Fehér drove up and down the avenue, as he did every Saturday. Ilona crawled back under the covers.>She loved lying in a warm bed with the window open, the fresh morning air, the dew on the leaves, and smelling the flowery blanket that had been washed with the same soap ever since she could remember. But what she liked most of all was hearing the sounds in the street that drifted into her room without disturbing the peace
>>25358792i dont know what this is but I jacked off just in case
>>25358727>>25358792Nepo baby book.
>>25358792Doesn't really seem all that bad, but I'll never read it.
Blurb by Patti Smith? The fuck? Why?
>>25358926I wouldn't think twice if I saw it in an average Tiktok book. But this one is getting write ups calling it a new Buddenbrooks.
Lots of "The new Mann" but little about the work. All these forced canonical writer comparisons for someone so young scream of publishing shenanigans too. Meh.
>>25358989>for someone so youngMann was 22 when he wrote Buddenbrooks, so I assume that's what they're driving at.>>25358974Yeah, no way. That's just ridiculous.
>>25358727>His family is of Hungarian noble descent on his father's side>In the summer of 2024, seven German-language publishers competed for the rights to Lázár, his second novel.>Publishing rights were acquired by twenty international publishers>His matriculation thesis, a novel entitled Verwischte Welt accompanied by a collection of short stories, was recognised by the Canton of Zurich as one of the five best submissions of the yearthis guy is literally who /lit/ wishes they were
>>25359002who wouldnt want to be a nepo baby?
>>25359002>this guy is literally who /lit/ wishes they wereif he had talent and didnt look like a wigger
>>25359040He looks like a chad AND writes good novels at 22 tho
>>25358727It's very good for a 22 year old. If he was 40 and wrote this, it'd be unremarkable.
>>25359103>chadAre you just impressed by his being white? I don't see it
>>25359107I bet he mogs you hard in every single metric.
>>25359110Go to London and open up Grindr if you have such a hard-on for Euro twinks
>>25359126I did. It was only Black and Brown Bodies
>>25359110You must be a hideous goblin a la Kant if you can't imagine anyone thinking that zoomfag is ugly.
>>25359159>>25359126Jealous dysgenic dyel
>>25359159not ugly, but just generic fuccboi
>>25359002FYI, of "hungarian noble descent" more often than not means "rich jew that married into the aristocracy of hungary after 1867". Especially if it was higher nobility rather than the landed gentry type of noble. Sort of similar to the Englis aristocracy in that sense, I suppose.
reminds me of the backrooms and obsession directors. so industry plants hyped up for their young age because they're scared of AI destroying the film and book publishing industries
>Michael Lazar Biedermann war ein kaiserlich-österreichischer Großhändler, K.k. Hofjuwelier, Bankier und Fabrikant. Er war Philanthrop und Mitbegründer der jüdischen Kultusgemeinde in Wien und Mitinitiator des Baus der ersten Wiener Synagoge „Stadttempel“.>Michael Lazar Biedermann wurde 1769 in Pressburg als Sohn des Händlers Hayum (Chaim) Löb (Löw) Freistadt (seit 1787 Biedermann, 1737–1817) und seine Frau Rosalie Resel Trebitsch (1748–1799) geboren.>Biedermann spielte eine führende Rolle bei der Organisation der ersten Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde in Wien und setzte sich sehr für die jüdische Emanzipation ein. Von 1806 bis zu seinem Tod 1843 war er fast ununterbrochen Repräsentant derselben. 1812 war er wesentlich an der Gründung einer jüdischen Schule und 1826 an der ersten Wiener Synagoge, dem „Stadttempel“, beteiligt. Neben zahlreichen anderen wohltätigen Stiftungen gründete er ein jüdisches Hospital. Außerdem holte er den Rabbiner Isaak Mannheimer nach Wien.
>jewish nepobaby industry plant whose family owns the banks>acclaimed novel is just him writing fanfiction about his own familyCan we sink any lower?
>Um beim Ausbau seines Wirtschaftsimperiums von fremdem Geld unabhängig zu sein, richtete er 1808 dann noch sein eigenes Bankhaus ein, „M. L. Biedermann & Comp.“, eines der ersten im Österreichischen Kaiserreich. Als die kaiserlich-österreichischen Staatsfinanzen nach den Napoleonischen Kriegen in Schieflage gerieten, unterstützte Biedermann 1816 die Gründung der ersten Staatsbank durch die Zeichnung eines erheblichen Teils der von dieser ausgebenden Aktien. Diese „privilegirte Oesterreichische National-Bank“ wurde zur Vorgängerin der heutigen Österreichischen Nationalbank.
>>25359352the first time someone from your generation makes it big instead of you, you seethe and say they are an industry plant. some are, some aren't. it's part of growing up.
>>25359370in this case, the heir to the Austrian national bank is an industry plant
nyt says they're already making a movie of it
>>25359373correct
>>25359370I think most of us could be published authors, movie directors, or anything if we came from big banking families y'know? I can't help but feel this way, I wonder why
...do you think jews in the arts ever suffer from impostor syndrome over their nepotism? I don't think they do. I don't think they have the necessary capacity for self-reflection to feel that sort of doubt.
>>25359110Shalom.
>>25359002The safe sleazy look is soo last year.
>>25359391>ressentiment, the post
He’s no Sebastian Schwaerzel
Writers have of course historically tended to come from more well-off backgrounds than the average, but I feel like it has been only recently that it has become an adult kindergarten of sorts for the second or third-born children of the upper and upper-middle class urban bourgeoisie.Literature was unironically more egalitarian and diverse in a sociological sense a hundred years ago than it is now. Back then, being good and some luck was usually all it took. Now, unless you're plugged into the correct communities, usually through doing an MFA, you're barred from taking a shot at greatness to begin with, much less stand a chance at becoming "big" without bringing a menagerie of journos, friends in publishing, and critics as fluffers along with yourself.
>>25359523There were more and diverser avenues to relevance back then. Journals, magazines, small presses. Each with a unique outlook. Now it's all attenuated or in the same grasps as the big publishers.
Ah yes another thread about a book where no one has read the book
>(((biedermann)))>premise is a blue-eyed White child being perceived as an ugly freakI’ll pass
