I know this will not be popular (or even known) in the edgy IQfy community. Bengal Nights by Mircea Eliade and It Does Not Die by Maitreyi Devi were released in 1994 by the University of Chicago Press as companion volumes depicting two sides of a romance.
I also found the following article interesting:
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/143651.html
Came here to post this
It's so funny to me how the Comedia is considered one of the greatest works of its time and it's literally self insert fanfiction.
I vaguely remember that there are some people that appear in it, who we know nothing about, because it's probably just some rando nobody that Dante didn't like who wasn't important enough to appear in any other historic acconts
>it's literally self insert fanfiction.
This wasn't a thing back then, moron, and no, it wasn't fan fiction nor self-insert. Dante the poet and Dante the character are different entities. It's not fan fiction as it doesn't deal with any copyrighted things.
>classic literature is actually fanfiction >greek myths are totally like the mcu >all these historical figures were secretly trans or "nonbinary"
i hope you actually have a nice day
>classic literature is actually fanfiction >greek myths are totally like the mcu >all these historical figures were secretly trans or "nonbinary"
i hope you actually have a nice day
Does that book Knut Hamsun wrote to prove he wasn't senile (after being brushed aside as such for his support of Hitler by people who were locking up Nazi sympathizers) count?
Plenty of writers seem to have a lot of spite and resentment, although that might be a bit more general than you want. A few examples:
BOOK: Stanley and the Women
AUTHOR: Kingsley Amis
WHO HE WAS GETTING REVENGE ON: Women (some specific ones, but also the sex in general)
BOOK: Everything he ever wrote
AUTHOR: William Gass
WHO HE WAS GETTING REVENGE ON: His father
BOOK: Everything he ever wrote, but Sredni Vashtar is probably the best and most famous example
AUTHOR: Saki
WHO HE WAS GETTING REVENGE ON: The aunts who brought him up
BOOK: A Handful of Dust
AUTHOR: Evelyn Waugh
WHO HE WAS GETTING REVENGE ON: Several women, including his ex-wife
There are plenty of examples of writers caricaturing people they don't like in their books. They often use what's called the "small penis strategy". The idea is, you give the character some absolutely humiliating defect, so the target won't sue you, because he daren't suggest he might have that in common with the character.
One example: in his historical novel "Burr", Gore Vidal creates a character called William de la Touche Clancey, who is a clear caricature of William F. Buckley, and makes him a pedophile. (In the Appendix, Vidal rubs it in, putting something like "all the characters are taken from real life, except X Y Z, and WdlTC, who clearly could not possibly be based on anyone.")
How about the entire genre of "satire"?
"The Dunciad" by Alexander Pope was a sick burn of several contemporary figures.
Picrel was a sick burn on modern society, and American society in particular.
>Apparently there was a real-life Isabel who actually abandoned the real-life Alexander Theroux at the altar, which motivated him to take revenge by writing the novel that became Darconville’s Cat, or so he claims in a 1978 New York Times Magazine article. Theroux calls revenge the “single most informing element of great world literature,” transcending even “love and war.” As an example, he cites George Orwell’s claim that among a writer’s primary motivations is “to get your own back on grownups who snubbed you in childhood.”
William Gass talks about resentment and revenge as a motivation for his works in his famous Paris Review Interview as well.
>INTERVIEWER
Have you spent a good part of your writing life getting even?
GASS
Yes . . . yes. Getting even is one great reason for writing. The precise statement of the motive is tricky, but the clearest expression of my unwholesome nature and my mean motives (apart from trying to write well) appears in a line I like in “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.” The character says, “I want to rise so high that when I shit I won’t miss anybody.” But maybe I say it’s a motive because I like the line. Anyway, my work proceeds almost always from a sense of aggression. And usually I am in my best working mood when I am, on the page, very combative, very hostile.
The Talmud.
The Torrents of Spring in a very petty way.
It will probably never be translated and is of no interest to anyone outside of the francosphere.
Not even the french give a shit about this effeminate hack
I'm a big fan of that interview. Good as reason as any to be remembered tbh.
I know this will not be popular (or even known) in the edgy IQfy community. Bengal Nights by Mircea Eliade and It Does Not Die by Maitreyi Devi were released in 1994 by the University of Chicago Press as companion volumes depicting two sides of a romance.
I also found the following article interesting:
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/143651.html
Fight Club was written to get back at people who thought Survivor was too edgy.
Dante's Inferno
What the frick was his problem?
He wash punished "Venom" Dante, a man bereft of his city.
Came here to post this
It's so funny to me how the Comedia is considered one of the greatest works of its time and it's literally self insert fanfiction.
I vaguely remember that there are some people that appear in it, who we know nothing about, because it's probably just some rando nobody that Dante didn't like who wasn't important enough to appear in any other historic acconts
>it's literally self insert fanfiction.
This wasn't a thing back then, moron, and no, it wasn't fan fiction nor self-insert. Dante the poet and Dante the character are different entities. It's not fan fiction as it doesn't deal with any copyrighted things.
cope and seethe
ywnbaw
Oh shit, you're so right. My bad
I said one of those things
>classic literature is actually fanfiction
>greek myths are totally like the mcu
>all these historical figures were secretly trans or "nonbinary"
i hope you actually have a nice day
>believing ancient rome was prude
???
For real
Reddit
michael crichton was once so butthurt about a review that in his following book he used that reviewer's name for a character that rapes toddlers
"La fiesta del monstruo" by Borges and Bioy Casares. A frick-you-short-story dedicated to Peron and his Black person acolytes.
Does that book Knut Hamsun wrote to prove he wasn't senile (after being brushed aside as such for his support of Hitler by people who were locking up Nazi sympathizers) count?
Plenty of writers seem to have a lot of spite and resentment, although that might be a bit more general than you want. A few examples:
BOOK: Stanley and the Women
AUTHOR: Kingsley Amis
WHO HE WAS GETTING REVENGE ON: Women (some specific ones, but also the sex in general)
BOOK: Everything he ever wrote
AUTHOR: William Gass
WHO HE WAS GETTING REVENGE ON: His father
BOOK: Everything he ever wrote, but Sredni Vashtar is probably the best and most famous example
AUTHOR: Saki
WHO HE WAS GETTING REVENGE ON: The aunts who brought him up
BOOK: A Handful of Dust
AUTHOR: Evelyn Waugh
WHO HE WAS GETTING REVENGE ON: Several women, including his ex-wife
There are plenty of examples of writers caricaturing people they don't like in their books. They often use what's called the "small penis strategy". The idea is, you give the character some absolutely humiliating defect, so the target won't sue you, because he daren't suggest he might have that in common with the character.
One example: in his historical novel "Burr", Gore Vidal creates a character called William de la Touche Clancey, who is a clear caricature of William F. Buckley, and makes him a pedophile. (In the Appendix, Vidal rubs it in, putting something like "all the characters are taken from real life, except X Y Z, and WdlTC, who clearly could not possibly be based on anyone.")
last Houellebecq, non?
How about the entire genre of "satire"?
"The Dunciad" by Alexander Pope was a sick burn of several contemporary figures.
Picrel was a sick burn on modern society, and American society in particular.
https://www.towntopics.com/wordpress/2013/03/06/darconvilles-cat-the-power-and-glory-of-vengeance-writ-fantastically-large/
>Apparently there was a real-life Isabel who actually abandoned the real-life Alexander Theroux at the altar, which motivated him to take revenge by writing the novel that became Darconville’s Cat, or so he claims in a 1978 New York Times Magazine article. Theroux calls revenge the “single most informing element of great world literature,” transcending even “love and war.” As an example, he cites George Orwell’s claim that among a writer’s primary motivations is “to get your own back on grownups who snubbed you in childhood.”
William Gass talks about resentment and revenge as a motivation for his works in his famous Paris Review Interview as well.
>INTERVIEWER
Have you spent a good part of your writing life getting even?
GASS
Yes . . . yes. Getting even is one great reason for writing. The precise statement of the motive is tricky, but the clearest expression of my unwholesome nature and my mean motives (apart from trying to write well) appears in a line I like in “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country.” The character says, “I want to rise so high that when I shit I won’t miss anybody.” But maybe I say it’s a motive because I like the line. Anyway, my work proceeds almost always from a sense of aggression. And usually I am in my best working mood when I am, on the page, very combative, very hostile.
Agatha Christie's entire legacy is thanks to taking revenge against her sister
revenge for what?
Her c**t of a sister told her she'd never get anywhere with her writings
what a b***h
My writings are going to be revenge against my sister, who is also a writer
The nose job chapter in V. was
You know it
Does Lord of the Flies count?