/lit/ - Literature

>>23094603
What?

He actually beat Shakespeare.

Do I have to be a pervert to be a good writer?

>Joyce
>Chaucer
>Nabokov
>Henry Miller
>Roth
>Pynchon

Al of these guys are highly admired here and were sexually perverse. I feel like great minds in literature are by and large sexually perverse with fetishes that are quite strange or not publicly accepted in the least. Do I need to have fetishes that are unacceptable to normies?

I'm looking for the name of something, I think it's related to 'literary form', although I'm not sure a word for it actually exists. I'm taking my example from chapter 3 of Joyce's Ulysses.

When Joyce takes the idea of Proteus and changes it into imitation and illusion of sight, it still keeps the structure of the Odyssey but transforms it so only the core idea of the Protean remains, but he is using as a form to structure his novel. It sounds like some kind of symbolism, but I'm really hoping there is a better word for it. Whatever it is, I fucking love it. Does anyone do it better than Joyce?

What is the point of writing in today's society if you're never going to 'outdo' Joyce?