/lit/ - Literature

>DFW was 24 when Broom of the System was published
>Zadie Smith was 25 when White Teeth was published
>Marek Hlasko was 23 when Eighth Day of the Week was published
>F.S. Fitzgerald was 23 when This Side of Paradise was published
>Carson McCullers was 23 when The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was published
>Tao Lin was 24 when EEEEE EEE EEEE & Bed were published
>Italo Calvino was 23 when The Path to the Nest of the Spiders was published
>Kerouac was 20 when The Sea is My Brother was published
>Goethe was 25 when The Sorrows of Young Werther was published
>Musil was 25 when The Confusions of Young Torless was published
>Hemingway was 25 when In Our Time was published
>Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published
>Ryu Murakami was 24 when Almost Transparent Blue was published
>Garcia Marquez was 20 when Eyes of a Blue Dog was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Napoleon III as a President" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when "Fate and History" was published
>Nietzsche was 18 when Free Will and Fate was published
>Nietzsche was 19 when "Can the Envious Ever Truly Be Happy?" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "On Tendencies" was published
>Nietzsche was 20 when "My Life" was published
>Saramago was 25 years old when Land of Sun was published
>Dickens was 24 when Sketches by Boz was published
>Dickens was 25 when The Pickwick Papers was published
>Huxley was 25 when Limbo was published
>James Joyce was 25 when Chamber Music was published
>Proust was 25 when Pleasures and Days was published
>Mishima was 23 when Confessions of a Mask was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 21 when Less Than Zero was published
>Bret Easton Ellis was 23 when Rules of Attraction was published
>Kenzaburō Ōe was 23 when Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids was published
>Emile Zola was 24 when Contes à Ninon was published
>Balzac was 20 when Cromwell was published
>Baudelaire was 24 when Salon of 1845 was published
>Hitomi Kanehara was 20 when Snakes and Earrings was published
>Stig Dagerman was 23 when Ormen was published
>Stridnberg was 22 wheb The Outlaw was published

I'm curious, why does this thread keep getting posted? Nothing but negative vibes!

>>6305469
Dammit man, I insist you tell me why you put the full words "twenty-five" in spoilers after the number! It makes no sense!

>>6305477
>every sadfrog post ever

snobby people ruin this board

Between the ages of 18 and 24 there are 52594 hours to write a novella that will help establish you as a writer. What did you spend all those hours doing, /lit/? Giggling at a thread about David Foster Wallace? Drifting from board to board hoping to be entertained?

>>6305481
Why do people sadfrog post?

>>6305494
Because they're sad and they find the image of a depressed frog relatable.

>>6305491
Trying to get laid.

Trying. :l

>>6305496
Why don't they do anything with their sadness? Yes I'm seriously asking this. Sadness is great if you make friends with it.

May as well drop the fact that Haruki Murakami wrote his first, Hear the Wind Sing, at 29.

>>6305502
Don't bother, man. Every time this thread is posted dozens of people post many canon authors whom were published well into their thirties and forties, and OP either disregards these or replies with ">Murakami was patrician."

>>6305502
>muh Murakami

He also translated novels from American into Japanese throughout his twenties.

>>6305497
Getting published is a way to get laid, that's why people do it

>>6305507
So OP basically wants to make people feel like shit that they aren't stumbling over themselves to become successful literary figures? Don't you guys know how much sadness and shit DFW went through to fall into the success of Infinite Jest? Do you all fetishise the ideal of a tortured artist that much?

capote's short stories are shit. i have his collected works and am yet to come across any of interest. i would enjoy to be proven wrong

>>6305513
It's just low-level trolling. There are always threads trying to make people feel insecure for one reason or another, this is true on most boards. After a while you start to automatically filter them out.

bump

>>6305517
have you read A Christmas Memory? That one made me cry

>>6305472
and there you have it ladies and gentlemen a comprehensive list of every good author ever and their best works. Incontrovertible proof that you will never be a succesful writer if a publisher doesn't pick you up before you've been around the sun 26 times.

Didn't see the thread for a couple of days. Was afraid you got hurt or something.

I am sorry that you are still well and shitposting.

>>6305469

Inb4 kafka

> Implying getting published means a goddamn thing
> not holing yourself away mastering your craft and not giving a fuck about anyone.
> OP thinks he can contribute to the ENGLUSH CANUN

Your mom must've been one dumb cow to give you that brain

>>6305469
Mark Z. Danielewski

Jokes on you, OP. I've had poems published as well as articles in an encyclopedia.

Vita Nouva was finished when Dante was 28.

You forgot John Barth you dumb fuck.

>>6306026
He should have sat on it longer.

>>6306019
I, too, have edited Wikipedia articles

>>6306031
John Barth was 26 when The Floating Opera was published

>>6305491
I was doing mathematics instead. I'll probably be published in a year or two, before I get to 25, so I'll technically fulfill OP's criterium.

Feels good man.

>>6305472
i-i want to die

>>6305472
>John Kennedy Tool was dead when A Confederacy of Dunces was published

>>6305517
Well, I really connected with Dazzle

What about Kafka and Raymond Carver?

>>6306152
inb4 Neon Bible

>>6306200
what? he was even more dead by then

>>6306178
>Raymond Carver was 23 when The Furious Seasons was published

This thread again? It's been established as bullshit. Who wants to be in the same category as a fucking coon like Zadie Smith who should be hooked with a ring through her top lip and dragged in the dust behind a fucking truck until her body flays to KFC leavings?

>>6305508
>from American

>>6306252
Your jelly is almost tangible

>>6306209
he was 16 when he wroteit

>>6306389
he was 30 when he still couldn't finish it and he was dead when it was published completely unfinished.

>>6305472
>>Tatsuhiko Takimoto was 24 when Welcome to the NHK was published

>>6306417
>hating on JK Toole

>>6306444
i'm not hating, neon bible was a book he couldn't finish in decades and he knew it and never tried tog et it published.

>F.S. Fitzgerald
>Garcia Marquez
>Tao Lin
>Bret Easton Ellis
>Dickens
>huxley
people I give zero fucks about, along with most of the non-western sounding names on that list

>tfw published at 26 and its all ogre

>>6306475
That's good because nobody gives a *beep* about you either

>>6305469
>>6305472
> Mfw I'm 24, about to turn 25
Luckily I should be published before the year is out anyways. Finally gonna get to live that literary lifestyle baby! I'm actually just hoping the book allows me to quit my normal job amd focus on other interests in the mean time.

>>6306488
What's the book about?

What job do you have?

>>6305513
In my opinion op has like 40 years and needs some justification to start writting. So, he shipost expecting us to refute his argument and give him reasons to believe in success.

>>6306495
>has like 40 years

Spaniard or other Eurofriend detected

>>6305513

dude this is literally the height/dick size trolling of lit. how new are you to the internet?

I hate to tell you all women expect 6'5 and an 8inch dick at least. Oh and if you don't make 80k by 24 you are a no life degenerate.

Oh and if you don't fuck a new girl every week you are a beta loser

etc.

Do non-fiction contest count? I feel I got a pretty good chance of getting published in one this year (and getting the 7,000 prize)

>>6306511
No way, only fiction. What prize brah?

>>6306485
On which aforementioned giving a fuck is also absent to threads like these, including you too, since most of the people here on this board who are actually published, write smut under an alias, and make horrible shit-posts, made up of unreadable, god awful, DFW-tier run on sentences, that start with fucking prepositions, you insignificant shit stain.

>>6306503
You don't say someone 'has years' in any Germanic or Slavonic language. The guy is most likely a spic, maybe a Mexican, maybe a wetback living illegally in your neighborhood right now RIGHT. NOW

>>6306493
It's a tragedy. I'm writing in multiple implications of hope that everything that has happened will lead to something good. Then in the last chapter, specifically the last sentence, I take that ship of hope I've built for them and smash it against the rocks. It sounds edgy I know, but there's meaning behind the feeling of emptiness I'm.hoping to inspire.

And I work as a web developer/grapgic designer/programmer. It's good work and gives me a lot of freedom, but I don't want to work at all really. I want to spend my time focusing on more creative pursuits.

>>6306528
Don't scare me like that man

>>6306542
Where do you live?

I'm guessing Brazil or Poland.

>>6306528
or fucking French