>the most important and prescient writer of his generation
>zero decent kinos

there's gonna be a shitass infinite jest adaptation one day and it's gonna be the biggest piece of shit, probably with at least six black cast members

magnolia is basically infinite jest.

>>213110083 (OP)
>writer
Lmao who cares grandpa

>>213110083 (OP)

>american "literature"

>>213110394
What do YOU read, anon? If your answer is anything other than a contemporary author, it doesn't count btw

>>213110394
Yet you're speaking American right now, funny, trooncase faggot.

>>213110083 (OP)
>biggest piece of shit
Not worse than the book

>>213110083 (OP)
What is his most "important" insight?
I've tried to watch interviews and read his stuff, it all seems like pseudo-deepism word salad nonsense.

>>213110767
He said that too much Irony was bad. We needed to be sincere..and love each other..and then the world would be one ..

>>213110394
What shithole do you come from? Be honest.

>>213110083 (OP)
The End of The Tour isn't bad

>>213110767
Iirc he once said we should be straight to the point and simple when writing. Then he went on to write infinite pseud.

>>213110767
Information and entertainment overload.

>>213110792
>We needed to be sincere..and love each other..
Do you love the criminal government run by pedophiles who take your taxes by force? How about the psychotic crackhead in the alley who wants to stab you and take your wallet? We're in a little more complicated situation imitating the fall of Rome right now, not sure if some simplistic feel good "love everybody" philosophy is very important or relevant. We are ruled by insane sadists at every level of society.

>>213110083 (OP)
I tried reading Infinite Jest and immediately got bored. Then I tried reading Blood Meridian and now I love Cormac McCarthy. Thus I conclude that DFW is gay and lame while McCarthy is cool and worth reading.

>>213110083 (OP)
neurotic fag with boring writing style

No kinos, but one of the songs ever made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95KqjmnAVnI

he was a hack

>>213111020
Buy an ad.

>>213110083 (OP)
All I know about him is that he wrote one of the meme trilogy books that's long and hard to read for no good reason, and that he killed himself. What makes him the most important writer of his generation?

>>213110423
kek

>Year of the Depressed Faggot

>>213110413
Why the contemporary criteria? Black women and fags?

>>213110338
Jesse Eisenberg is so fucking annoying man

Wardine be cry

>>213112344
heh, i remember that chapter

>>213110083 (OP)
He wrote books, not movies. Easy mistake to make.

>>213110968
Is Blood Meridian the only Cormac McCarthy book that zoomers are aware of? It's not even his best work.

>>213110083 (OP)

>>213111872
not him but if you can’t list contemporaries you’re reading, then it means your opinion on modern literary output is meme based and not based off personal experience and taste

>>213112924
KEK
why are straight white heterosexual men so prone to commiting suicide?

>>213110767
He's basically sam hyde for 2010 /lit/ dudebros
(both end kys'elves too)

>>213110903
Whens the last time you were mugged? Honestly? Life isn't as bad as you're making it out to be. But anyway his point was more about irony than the love. Being sarcastic about everything kills the soul.

>>213113090
sam hyde killed himself?

>>213112969
DFW would 100% have trooned out once it became socially acceptable, but he skipped straight to the ACKing instead.

>>213110903
His books aren’t about ignoring how we’re surrounded by sadists, it’s more directly mocking the neolib pop nihilist view of not doing anything about it and just spending every moment CONSOOMing and whining about it being all mens fault.

>>213113128
A philosophy that has no way to deal with human evil is pretty worthless. We are all being preyed upon by narcissists, Machiavellians and psychopaths in one way or another (they rule the planet, if you haven't notice), and "just love them and be sincere" doesn't help anything.

>>213112867
I just started Suttree and I'm loving it. He's literally me.

>>213113240
KEK
incel to troon pipeline is real

>>213113307
His works fail to counter the problem of evil, but he was completely right that modern writers obsession with focusing purely on subverting cliches, favoring gimmick narrative twists over actual plotting, and specially being ‘ironically detached from everything’ would lead to the exact cultural wasteland American Media has collectively become.

>>213111779
it's not hard to read at all, just long

t. read the meme trilogy (gravitys rainbow twice)

>Zero decent kinos
There is one, albeit it was made posthumously.
https://youtu.be/3gLDD_6UCDY?feature=shared

>>213110968
>4chan NPCs aren’t rea—

>>213110083 (OP)
he was a pussy and not because he killed himself his wiring is womanly like james baldwin

man forget dfw, what the fuck is ulysses and joyce in general?! i'm filtered to the point i wouldnt hurt you at all if you smoked me

>>213113307
Well being ironic and subverting expectations like Redditors love sure as shit doesn't deal with human evil

>>213110767
He told us he was a "fraud", in many different ways, and yet some credulous pseuds like OP want to believe he was lying.

Infinite Jest is good, but has a shitty ending

>>213113498
>>213114073
I don't know. Some of my favorite art of all time could be considered "ironic/subversive" like Kubrick, Scorsese, Chuck Palahniuk, Tarantino, Bret Easton Ellis, etc. I think the ironic detachment is a natural and logical consequence of living in a collapsing society with endless debasing of the currency, trillions in debt, forever war, ruled by central bankers and ever expanding govt corporatism that can lock down your economy over a cold virus and steadily turns every institution into a glorified HR department. What place is there for sincerity when we're living through the most spectacular black comedy of all time?

>>213110083 (OP)
David Foster Wallace was a hack and everyone who claims to enjoy his tripe is a pretentious image-obsessed poser faggot. If someone tells you they enjoyed Infinite Jest I guarantee they did not read more than fifty pages.
Read House of Leaves if you want ergodic lit that's actually good. Leave DFW in the grave where he belongs.

>>213114503
most pleb post i've seen in a while

>>213111936
You don’t like “somehow more Jewish Micheal Cera”?

>>213114903
you're a pseud.

>>213114254
Infinite Jest has the perfect ending. I know because I imagined it.

>>213110413
Toriyama and Kubo

>>213114982
says the guy who recommended house of gimmicks

>>213114503
>Read House of Leaves
Reddit

>>213115082
yeah infinite footnotes is so much better.
at least the gimmicks in HoL have a thematic purpose.
both are pretentious dogshit at the end of the day, but if you're going to eat dogshit, you might as well eat the least smelly piece.

>>213115167
yeah i can tell by your way with words that you read a lot and have good taste. pleb. never reply to my posts ever again

>>213110903
>Do you love the criminal government run by pedophiles who take your taxes by force? How about the psychotic crackhead in the alley who wants to stab you and take your wallet?
Like so many people you’ve forgotten the most basic existential truth: your issues are imagined and they didn’t actually happen. Those things do happen but that means it’s conceptual and not reality.

Anecdotal examples have more meaning than zoomer’s cave. Any kind of experience has more meaning than base level intuition.
> We're in a little more complicated situation imitating the fall of Rome right now, not sure if some simplistic feel good "love everybody" philosophy is very important or relevant. We are ruled by insane sadists at every level of society.
Yeah but you and I, like 99.9% of people who ever lived don’t know jack shit about Rome. You would fail basic questions like when did it start, when did it end, name a dozen rulers, etc. and yet you’re willing to compare it to our time which is complicated…

You’ve been taught by the media to repeat certain narratives and then internalize them as if they’re your own. Anyone making the Rome comparison is trying to act smarter than they are (most popular indoor activity).

Same thing goes for the talk about sadists and pedophiles. Were you bitching about those subjects before the media started covering Epstein less than a decade ago?

>I'm...le depressed!
>maybe I should smoking weed every 2 hours
>how about some tennis? let me spend 600 pages describing it
>there's this video that is so entertaining people just forget about everything else and die like the fucking easily entertained uneducated worthless braindead plebs they are who can't stop watching TV, fuck them
>yes, I'm a subtle political commentator

>>213110083 (OP)
>life is so heckin' beautiful but now excuse me i have to kill myself due to le depression
I don't think there's anything interesting about this coward who thought way too highly about himself

>>213110394
why not actually say something substantial? if you genuinely have a criticism of american literature you could point out its flaws rather than just post shit memes. oh its because youre a faggot with no actually opinion of your own.

>>213110903
>muh taxes
I will post this until you are economically literate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75udjh6hkOs

>>213113584
what is the third in the meme trilogy? ulysses? underworld?

>>213114503
this is bait right?

>>213115238
pseud.

>>213115395
>things that happen aren't reality
you're a complete fucking moron. unironically put a bullet in your brain you idiot fuck.

>>213115996
the old meme trilogy from /lit/ is infinite jest, gravitys rainbow, and ulysses