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Who is the coolest author ever?

>> No.2328524

shaq

>> No.2328525

Charles Bukowski

>> No.2328532
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2328532

Leonard Cohen

ITT black and white photographs of men in suits smoking cigarettes.

>> No.2328533

I'm with Camus. Just look at the dude, jesus. He wrote about existentialism BEFORE it was edgy.

>> No.2328547

John Kennedy Toole

>> No.2328545

>>2328533
Camus vehemently rejected being an existentialist who wrote about existentialism.

Do you even read?

>> No.2328552

>>2328545
To label him was to negate him.

>> No.2328557

>>2328533
And told it to piss off. he hated existentialism before hating existentialism was cool. twice as edgy.

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2328559

Is it even a question?

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>>2328545
>not existentialist
>conceived the idea of Absurdism
Whatever, dude.

>> No.2328565

Don DeLillo
Hitchens
Bohumil Hrabal
Bukowski

>> No.2328568

Kitzo Hekotormos

>> No.2328569

>>2328561
existentialists asked how to derive meaning in a world without god. absurdism says dont answer the question. they are intimately related but one could not conflict more with the other. you are confusing a relation to a particular thing with being that same thing

>> No.2328572

>>2328568
he was allegedly associated with some big-time diamond thieves

>> No.2328575

>>2328568
i cant find anything about him or his book. there is so few google results of either that lit actually comes up as the fifth one. how do i get hold of the book if i cant even google the author?

>> No.2328578

>>2328559
bryan cranston should play him in the biopic

>> No.2328577

>>2328559
hemingway was too much of a try-hard to be cool.

>> No.2328585
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>>2328569
Same difference. Absurdism belongs to the general existentialist school of thought, you're just being anal about the particular flavour variations of these turds -- and I don't even know why.

>> No.2328596

Carl Sagan obviously.

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2328598

You are all smalltime.

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2328600

Bret Easton Ellis

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2328602

Nick Drake

>> No.2328603
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2328603

Tao Lin

>> No.2328604

>>2328532
>>2328602
I think you guys may be lost -- this is a thread about cool _authors_, not folk singers.

>> No.2328607

>>2328604
this thread is dumb and makes no sense
thus...

>> No.2328613

hemingway and camus

>> No.2328620
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2328620

Percy Byshe Shelley
>wrote 'Necessity of Atheism' ages 19 and got assfucked for it
>wrote against Monarchy, Religion and oppression in general and didn't give a fuck
>married a hot ass wife who was /lit/ as fuck
>died in a sailing accident then got cremated by a bunch of poets/writers

Dylan Thomas
>dat drinking mythology
>dat voice
>dat time he tried to machine gun/grenade his wife to death
>dat death

Jack London
>dat good looks
>socialist as fuck not even caring about his middle-class audience reading bout dogs n shit
>dat adventure in the Yukon

>> No.2328625

>>2328604
Leonard Cohen wrote two novels dipshit

>> No.2328627

>>2328620
>dat time he tried to machine gun/grenade his wife to death
Sorry, what? I didn't know about this.

>> No.2328629

>>2328625
he was also a poet and most of his really famous songs are actually just poems that he set to music

>> No.2328631
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2328631

Gustave Flaubert
Besides creating what some call the "first modern novel," check out this choice exerpt from his life (from wikipedia):

"Flaubert was very open about his sexual activities with prostitutes in his writings on his travels. He suspected that a chancre on his penis was from a Maronite or a Turkish girl.[4] He also engaged in intercourse with male prostitutes in Beirut and Egypt; in one of his letters, he describes a "pockmarked young rascal wearing a white turban" with whom he had anal sex.[5][6] He had intercourse with a 14-year-old Maronite boy in 1850.[7]"

>> No.2328632

>>2328627
My bad, meant to say he and his wife were nearly machine gunned/grendad to death

http://www.newquay-westwales.co.uk/dylan_thomas.htm

ctrl + f = machine gun

>> No.2328643

>>2328585
no you're just confusing 'being' with association.

being in the existentialist 'school of thought' is different from being a existentialist as well.