James Joyce and Marcel Proust met each other 1922 in a taxi in Paris. They talked about truffle and their illnesses. Not word was spoken about their work because none of the two read the works of the other one. Also Joyce nearly puked in the taxi.
You have other stories like that?
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When Salvator Dali and Aram Khachaturian met is pretty good
Henry James and Charles Dickens encountered one another (according to Leon Edel) briefly in a candle lit foyer at a party for the latter in Massachusettes during his last trip to the States. James was of course a very young man. Neither said a word though eye-contact was evidently made.
>none of the two read the works of the other one
that's rather funny, why would they meet up in that case? Imagine how awkward it would have been
>Proust: perceived greatness purchased
Joyce did end up reading Proust at some point fyi
Ralph Emerson and Thomas Carlyle met.
I don't know the exact circumstances but Tenessee Williams knew Yukio Mishima personally.
Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy never met, not even once
No wonder, they're both maximalist hacks
Beckett briefly dated Joyce's daughter.
he didn't pay for people to give him good reviews, he paid for reviews that were already praising him
didn't they dislike each others' works
Emerson even met the aged Wordsworth at his own digs. See English Traits for that memorable encounter.
Flaubert and Turgenev were buds.
Niggas, y'all need to read Santiago Posteguillo's books on that matter.
No I think they liked each others work quite a lot if I remember correctly
Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin made one of this generation's most controversial duos. The first time they met Mira made advances on Lin, but Lin dropped his spaghetti propmting Mira to pat him on the head and service him with a bong water lubricated hand job.
Wallace Stevens sneaked attacked Hemingway with a sucker punch, broke his hand on Hemingway's jaw, and then was knocked down multiple times by Hemingway.
Is this true?
I don't think it gets emphasized too much, but Nathaniel Hawthorne was friends with Herman Melville (who dedicated Moby-Dick to him) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and was acquainted with Thoreau. Longfellow and Emerson served as pall-bearers at his funeral.
Yes.
Does the fact that H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard were best friends communicating through letters count? Consider that Lovecraft wrote a memoir of Howard after his death.
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>Americans don't have good li-
How not to mention the Svevo-Joyce bromance? They were good friends and Joyce was one of the first to recognize Svevo's talent (he was largely ignored by the critics of his time)
He paid for reviews of Swann's Way, which isn't even the truly revolutionary part of the book.
Source? Top kek this is too good to be true
A few sources, but this one quotes hemingway
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>February, 1936
>“Nice Mr. Stevens. This year he came again pleasant like the cholera and first I knew of it my nice sister Ura was coming into the house crying because she had been at a cocktail party at which Mr. Stevens had made her cry by telling her forcefully what a sap I was, no man, etc. So I said, this was a week ago, ‘All right, that’s the third time we’ve had enough of Mr. Stevens.’ So headed out into the rainy past twilight and met Mr. Stevens who was just issuing from the door haveing just said, I learned later, ‘By God I wish I had that Hemingway here now I’d knock him out with a single punch.’
>“So who should show up but poor old Papa and Mr. Stevens swung that same fabled punch but fertunatly missed and I knocked all of him down several times and gave him a good beating. Only trouble was that first three times put him down I still had my glasses on. Then took them off at the insistence of the judge who wanted to see a good clean fight without glasses in it and after I took them off Mr. Stevens hit me flush on the jaw with his Sunday punch bam like that. And this is very funny. Broke his hand in two places. Didn’t harm my jaw at all and so put him down again and then fixed him good so he was in his room for five days with a nurse and Dr. working on him. But you mustn’t tell this to anybody.”
>The story is confirmed by Stevens’s biographer Joan Richardson, who reports that Stevens returned home to his wife and daughter in Hartford that March with a still-puffy eye and broken hand, and that Stevens himself told versions of the story throughout his life. It’s Hemingway’s, though, that survives:
Henry Miller also met Yukio mishima. He has an essay/obituary for mishima where he discusses it.
Hams Blumenberg writes about several encounters between great writers in "Care Crosses the River"
Though there is much to be said about Ernst Jünger's relationships with the likes of Picasso, Goebbels, Schmitt, and Heidegger, on of the most fascinating friendships was the one with Albert Hoffman at the dawn of the psychadelic era.
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Svevo also influenced the character of Leo Bloom in appearance
The thread is about great writers.
>Right-wing aesthete meets inventor of LSD
Gravity's Rainbow was nonfiction.
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Proust's family tried to cure his fap-addiction by paying for a prostitute. A mixture of performance anxiety and a heavy dose of being an actual bona fide faggot caused the following, which he details in a letter to his grandfather:
18 May 1888
Thursday evening.
My dear little grandfather,
I appeal to your kindness for the sum of 13 francs that I wished to ask Mr. Nathan for, but which Mama prefers I request from you. Here is why. I so needed to see if a woman could stop my awful masturbation habit that Papa gave me 10 francs to go to a brothel. But first, in my agitation, I broke a chamber pot: 3 francs; then, still agitated, I was unable to screw. So here I am, back to square one, waiting more and more as hours pass for 10 francs to relieve myself, plus 3 francs for the pot. But I dare not ask Papa for more money so soon and so I hoped you could come to my aid in a circumstance which, as you know, is not merely exceptional but also unique. It cannot happen twice in one lifetime that a person is too flustered to screw.
I kiss you a thousand times and dare to thank you in advance.
I will be home tomorrow morning at 11am. If you are moved by my situation and can answer my prayers, I will hopefully find you with the amount. Regardless, thank you for your decision which I know will come from a place of friendship.
Marcel.
When Soren Kierkegaard was still engaged to Regine Olsen, he arranged a romantic ride by horse carriage. Kierkegaard was normally aloof, cold and autistic, so Regine was thrilled at this amorous gesture. When they arrived at the carriage, Kierkegaard walked away from her, musing that the joy of anticipation is always greater than the joy of the thing itself.
kek
can't say he's wrong
Source?
Siegfried Sassoon was dining in a hotel bar in Turin when Joyce entered, perched between Hemingway's shoulder blades and wielding a coatrack like a lance. They charged a table full of soldiers in the corner, with Joyce laying about himself and shrieking "Finish him, Hemmy!" The scrum entered the kitchen and disappeared into the night as quickly as it had developed.
No, water isn't a good lube.
Bong water is. scummy, slippery, and has thc.
Saroyan once kicked Hemingway's ass in Paris hotel
>didn't they dislike each others' works
Actually the opposite.
>If you are moved by my situation and can answer my prayers
LMAO
the world didn't deserve ol' Kierke ;_;
They met unintentionally, the party was organized that way to make big artistic names meet. They also invited Picasso, Stravinsky and Diagilev there.
Borges published Julio Cortazar's first short story.
Borges probably met a lot of great writers in his lifetime.
friendly reminder that Stevens was 57 when they fought and Hemingwy was 41
>Borges
some choice Borges quotes:
-“Of course the blacks are unbearable…I don’t retract what I’ve stated so many times: the Americans made a grave mistake in educating them; as slaves, they were like children, they were happier and less annoying.”
-“…rich people suffer a lot and are very unhappy. The poor suffer much less than the rich.”
he was a noted admirer of Pinochet and despised democracy
he was also a great fan of Schopenhauer
They both were in the same room at a lecture once but they were too autistic to speak to each other
>-“Of course the blacks are unbearable…I don’t retract what I’ve stated so many times: the Americans made a grave mistake in educating them; as slaves, they were like children, they were happier and less annoying.”
The only source I found for this quote was on a propaganda site
>-“…rich people suffer a lot and are very unhappy. The poor suffer much less than the rich.”
same
>he was a noted admirer of Pinochet
unwillingly
>he was also a great fan of Schopenhauer
That's....good???
Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy made one of their generation's most controversial duos. The first time they met Dostoyevsky made advances on Tolstoy, but Tolstoy dropped his spaghetti propmting Dostoyevsky to pat him on the head and service him with a bong water lubricated hand job.
he just thought marxists were boring, and for that he is 100% right
>Sartre: *cums to Joseph Stalin*
WOW SO BRAVE AND INTELLECTUAL AND REBELLIOUS
>Borges: *meets Pinochet once*
THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORST THING EVER HOW DARE HE
Shut the fuck up
>the poor suffer much less than the rich
Should’ve been tortured to death.
Also, Flaubert and Maupassant.
Faulkner and Thomas Mann once got into an arm-wrestling competition in a New York club in which Mann broke Faulkner's dominant hand.
Faulkner then started writing The Sound and the Fury with his other hand, which is why the first part turned out like it did. Once he recovered, he wrote teh rest of the novel normally
>the only source I can find for that borges quote is from a propaganda site
probably because it was written in spanish you fucking mongoloid
"Por supuesto que resultan insoportables los negros…no me desdigo de lo que tantas veces afirmé: los norteamericanos cometieron un grave error al educarlos; como esclavos eran como chicos, eran más felices y menos molestos.”
"la gente rica sufre mucho y es muy desdichada. Los pobres sufren mucho menos que los ricos."
they're from interviews in the 50s and 60s
but you're too stupid to fact-check that
>he was an unwilling admirer of Pinochet
he went out of his way to fucking meet him my god you are pants-on-head retarded
Schopenhauer is a pathetic second-rate philosopher who's only modern adherents are upper class sheltered racists
I was extremely surprised when I found out that Lovecraft and Hart Crane wrote to eachother
lmao
I was confused by the first part so thoroughly until I read the second
>Schopenhauer is a pathetic second-rate philosopher who's only modern adherents are upper class sheltered racists
Sounds like my kind of guy!
I couldn't find those interviews from non-propaganda sites and YES I did search in spanish
obviously its real though because slandering your rivals is not something that happens at all in latin american literature (this is sarcasm)
>he went out of his way to fucking meet him
because he won a medal, I've never seen him say anything to the affect of "wow I sure do love his policies!"
This is like calling Jesse Owens a nazi
>Schopenhauer is a pathetic second-rate philosopher who's only modern adherents are upper class sheltered racists
t. brainlet
Wordsworth and Coleridge.
They were smoking dope and chilling out in the summertime in England.
Be honest, everything you know about Schopenhauer you learned from this board.
>all those different sites which contain the borges quotes are fake!
>I've never heard Borges praise Pinochet!
"he is an excellent person, his warmth, his goodness … I’m very satisfied … The fact that here, also in my country, and in Uruguay, the freedom and the order is saved, especially in an anarchic continent, a continent undermined by communism. I expressed my satisfaction, as an Argentine, of which we should have here nearby a country of order and peace."
>Schopenhauer is anything other than second-rate
t. braindead
I don't think anyone identifies as a Schopenhauer adherent, user. But he's of the sharpest minds of all times nonetheless.
Byron constantly referred to Wordsworth as "Turdsworth"
>he's of the sharpest minds of all time
>HEGEL IS STUPID BECAUSE HE STEALS MY STUDENTS
>WOMEN ARE CHILD-LIKE AND INFANTILE
>GENIUS IS A CHILD-LIKEAND INFANT WONDER OF THE WORLD
>TRUE MEN DON'T READ BOOKS, THEY PUBLISH THEM!
>PLEASE READ MY BOOKS
>>all those different sites which contain the borges quotes are fake!
all these different random blogs**
>"he is an excellent person, his warmth, his goodness … I’m very satisfied … The fact that here, also in my country, and in Uruguay, the freedom and the order is saved, especially in an anarchic continent, a continent undermined by communism. I expressed my satisfaction, as an Argentine, of which we should have here nearby a country of order and peace."
Yes he liked that he got read of communism. Got any more puzzles for me?
>>Schopenhauer is anything other than second-rate
Give me a tl;dr of his ideas
>controversial polemic guy makes controversial polemic quotes
more news at 11
Just wait until you get to Nietzsche and Heidegger
That's hardly why he's famous, and you know it, you snarky little bitch.
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Hey did you know that Foucault and Derrida are NAZIS because they liked Heidegger?
This thread reminds me of when you go into a bar or a coffehouse & these pretentious little college kids are sprawled out everywhere dressed in their artificially distressed designer gear and all drinking the same soybased coffeeflavored drink. And this is is how they talk to each other.
Threads like this also remind me of those party scenes in that one Gaddis novel where everyone is just trying to impress everyone by mentioning all the "cool" little shit they made their selves memorize not out of curiosity but only as an accessory.
This way nobody has to ever talk about anything real but they get to keep talking.
>This thread reminds me of when you go into a bar or a coffehouse & these pretentious little college kids are sprawled out everywhere dressed in their artificially distressed designer gear and all drinking the same soybased coffeeflavored drink
I don't believe this place exists outside of your imagination.
woah...
Byron and Mary Shelley
Noam Chomsky and Ted Kaczynski were allegedly in the same logic class.
I found the source of the borges quotes
its from this guy: rodolfobraceli.com.ar
he writes fictional interviews where he tries to make famous people say wildly controversial things
god youre dense
Joyce and Proust met at a party, and Joyce got pissed when Proust told him he didn't read Ulysses, and thought it was bad. Joyce then paid Hemingway 7 pounds to throw Proust's trousers in a tree.
>Norman Mailer once punched Vidal at a party after the writer had given him a bad review. Still on the floor, Vidal declared: "Once again, words fail Norman Mailer."
Gore Vidal would be Veeky Forumss guy, if Veeky Forums was better read
>would be Veeky Forumss guy, if Veeky Forums was better read
Maybe he wouldn't be yours, if you were.
>linking me some propaganda site
yeah no thanks brainlet
easy on the alienation
go to bed Stevens
And you bring to my mind the picture of the cynical loner who always complains about the lack of "real conversation," but can't for the life of him describe the "real" thing he wants to be talking about.
woah
what a revelation!
no way!
Remember when this guy became a philosopher by randomly showing up at Gottlob Frege's house?
good times
shit wrong pic
>K didn't overcome his anxiety about the impermanence of love and let go of his autism and marry Regine and live a long life of happiness and love
It's not fair bros, he deserved to make it
Marlene Dietrich read Schopenhauer, and considered him *her* philosopher. It's in her ABC.
t. Norman Mailer
G.K. Chesterton and T.S. Eliot liked to talk shit about each other. Eliot famously said, "Mr. Chesterton's mind swarms with ideas. I have seen no evidence that it thinks." But Eliot also considered Chesterton essential to his conversion to Christianity later in life.
Very hard to tell a difference desu
>18 May 1888
keked and checked
My writing prof told me he loves my writing style today, who else /future greats/ here?
Tacitus, Pliny the younger, and Seutonius all knew each other and made several correspondences.
Tacitus and pliny practiced law together.
A letter also exists where Seutonius describes having a bad dream in which he fairs poorly at court so he asks Tacitus to move the court date. Tacitus tells him to get over it
until she went even more nuts than her father kek
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this wasn't "two great writers meeting"
I thought it was a well known fact that Beckett was part of Joyce's entourage for a long time
Beckett actually transcribed all of Finnegan's Wake, Joyce had already gone mostly blind by the time he began composing it
they together almost at all times in France
Joyce forcing his schizophrenic daughter on Beckett was one of the reasons they actually parted ways
If you didn't realize this before the thread, you're retarded
Apparently Saul Bellow and John Green briefly crossed paths at the Iowa writers workshop. Bellow dropped by Green's dorm during the breakfast hour and the lesser writer, stunned and flattered, invited him to sit. Bellow did not sit down, pacing and conducting a rapid fire interrogation of the young man, finally shouting "Have you ever even seen a vagina, Greeny?!?". When Green, stammering, admitted he had not, Bellow, with his famed cat-like reflexes leapt on the table and skillfully mounted Green's cereal bowl. Bringing himself to orgasm with a few powerful thrusts, he locked eyes with Green and whispered "That's why you read Plato" just as he ejaculated deeply into the young man's Cheerios.
Stan Brakhage meets Andrei Tarkovsky. One of the funnets encounters between two artists i have evner read.
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