Anonymous
7/26/2025, 10:37:34 PM No.24584809
>Huysmans never married or had children. He had a long-term, on-and-off relationship with Anna Meunier, a seamstress.
>Goncharov, who never married, spent his last days absorbed in lonely and bitter recriminations because of the negative criticism some of his work had received.
>[Pessoa] never married, lived alone in various rented apartments in Lisbon, and died young at the age of forty seven, with only one book published
>Larkin was never married but had once been engaged which was eventually broken off
>Franz Kafka did not marry. He had a complex relationship with the idea of marriage, engaging in multiple engagements with Felice Bauer but ultimately never tying the knot. His writings and letters reveal an ambivalence towards marriage, citing fears of losing independence and potentially struggling with the idea of sexual fulfillment.
>On 25 May 1901, Chekhov married Olga Knipper quietly, owing to his horror of weddings. [...] Up to that point, Chekhov, known as "Russia's most elusive literary bachelor", had preferred passing liaisons and visits to brothels over commitment. He had once written to Suvorin: "By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto—that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her.... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't appear in my sky every day."
>Arthur Schopenhauer never married. He remained single throughout his life. While he had relationships with women, including an actress named Caroline Richter, he never entered into marriage. Schopenhauer also expressed negative views on marriage, stating that it essentially halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
Why are so many writers like this?
>Goncharov, who never married, spent his last days absorbed in lonely and bitter recriminations because of the negative criticism some of his work had received.
>[Pessoa] never married, lived alone in various rented apartments in Lisbon, and died young at the age of forty seven, with only one book published
>Larkin was never married but had once been engaged which was eventually broken off
>Franz Kafka did not marry. He had a complex relationship with the idea of marriage, engaging in multiple engagements with Felice Bauer but ultimately never tying the knot. His writings and letters reveal an ambivalence towards marriage, citing fears of losing independence and potentially struggling with the idea of sexual fulfillment.
>On 25 May 1901, Chekhov married Olga Knipper quietly, owing to his horror of weddings. [...] Up to that point, Chekhov, known as "Russia's most elusive literary bachelor", had preferred passing liaisons and visits to brothels over commitment. He had once written to Suvorin: "By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto—that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her.... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't appear in my sky every day."
>Arthur Schopenhauer never married. He remained single throughout his life. While he had relationships with women, including an actress named Caroline Richter, he never entered into marriage. Schopenhauer also expressed negative views on marriage, stating that it essentially halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
Why are so many writers like this?
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