Why is modern literature so terrible?

don't forget novels started out as trash for plebs who couldn't into poetry

>le born in le wrong generation!!!
youre an idiot if you think that "modern literature" is bad
Those books arent modern literature, those are entertainment books targeted at young adults.
Its just like saying theres no good music anymore because the radio plays Kesha

People do say that about music though lol

>Kesha
>bad

Go watch some filthy frank or something you edgy retard

>hurrr look at me guys im totally not a cliche like what im describing lmao im so smart

Modern literature isn't terrible it's just drowning in a sea of highly marketed shit for plebs. So it's getting harder to find good stuff, but if you're into it you'll know where to look.

I liked blankets
It's like if Tumblr type comics were good

>mfw Blankets is the best thing in that stack

T H E E N D I S N I G H

I know that, and its stupid and wrong because theres good everything if you really care enough to look.
It was just an example that someone who hated radio pop would say.
Um what?

What?

(You)
(You)

Idk how saying good things are made and are easy to find, if you care enough to look, is edgy and something that a filthy frank watcher would say..

Here's your last (You)

hunger games is good

8/8
This is the equivalent of posting a "what's so bad about jews" thread in /pol/

Stop trolling by implying other people are trolling

this stuff is much better than the children's literature of yore

fucking prole

I don't know if it is; I don't read enough of it to know.

I liked Blankets and Persepolis doe.

No life experience, human agency and motive is gone from the world, no religious framework, no struggle, no tradition. Contemporary literature is done by MFA drones all writing in the same register & key, solely focused on "craft", starting and ending from liberal axioms, wholly ignorant to anything redeeming and epiphanic about life and art, all while not even knowing it. The bucket is empty and won't be filled until we the Veeky Forums masterpatricians rise up and take what is ours by right

I think you mean contemporary.

Also, because I haven't finished my masterpiece yet.

that's genre fiction
libraries here put them in their shady shelves

>because I haven't finished my masterpiece yet.

When are you set for release?

Because those aren't works of literature, they're genre fiction, mostly for teen readers. Go read other books.

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thats not literature

Wish we could go back to those times

At some point, American politicians started to become obsessed with literacy. This is likely a result of our population's kekworthy reading comprehension and average GPA. Because these politicians are among the kekworthy, they confused the symptom with the cause; in other words, the reason why Burgers are dumb isn't because they don't read often, the reason why they don't read often is because they're dumb. Still convinced of the contrary, they started to turn reading into a necessity rather than a hobby. So a bunch of shitty authors started to pump out bland meaningless teenage romance novels, which were then branded as "young adult" by publishers, who shipped them off in droves to libraries and schools across America. Beyond that, the scam I mean self help book industry is booming as ever, and as long as you have a generally happy life, an appetite for giving out helpful-sounding but ultimately vague advice, and a writing ability that surpasses that of an average middleschooler, you too can become the next big self-help guru!

It is an illusion.

It's just that today everybody gets to publish, so the good stuff is buried under the shitstorm that emerges when capitalism devours the field of literature.

"muh good old times when everybody was a literary genius" is just a meme, and there was never a time when you had some enormous amount of great writers in a short period of time. It's just that you remember only the best, and not every incompetent person was constantly publishing nonsense.

this

blankets is good

What the fuck are you talking about?

>2016
>There are still people who don't realize that our material gains have come at the cost of intellectual/spiritual capital

Has there been anything decent put out in the last
five years or so in regards to literature? I'm kind of out of the loop as far as recent releases go.

I'm not even going to ask about poetry.

>Don Quixote
>trash

>spiritual capital
lol nerd

lmao you fucking mongoloid

>implying objective quality

wew lad

The most common response here is A Brief History of Seven Killings. Ferrante also have her supporters. I haven't read either so I can't say if it's a actually good or just memes.

It's actually quite simple why all modern books are trash, beforehand books were written by the rich, by the scholars, by the experienced, by the well educated; nowadays, books and literature are just another market that everybody wants to get into for the money, because what else is someone going to do with an English degree? So people have to do what's the easiest, focus on the dumbest, largest demographic to earn the most money. These books, that were written mostly by and for this special low educated demographic, are written in an amateur style and are the least mind provoking books that exist but they then sell the most and are considered "Best Sellers" and "Most successful", this creates just another loop, most people now read these books and think they're smart and educated. Telling themselves that, they write more books of the same low intellectual quality and with the same awful style.

Take into consideration that what we call modern is a very small period (last 50 years ). Classical literature encapsulates all old literature.

When your mom comes home from work.

The Book Thief wasn't horrible.

Commodification, disintegration of the public sphere, multiculturalism and globalization, collapse of the productive tension between low and high cultures, and of course, the phenomenon that subsumes all of these, the tireless climb of capital to ever greater heights of abstraction, and with it the relentless driving of labor power (both physical and intellectual) underground.

Cheers m8, will look into them.

Those books are mediocre

That was quick.

Music is technically a form of literature, and it's still thriving.

Music is relatively easy and cheap to create, so it is no surprise that the expensive or hard to create artistic mediums, such as film/novels/vidya/etc, are currently garbage.

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this

add to this the fact that people just want money.
Look at the latest YA literature: Divergent series, the Hunger Games, they had such strong beginnings, and the sequels sucked fat cock. The publishers just want to cash in on the idea, so they rush the author (who usually isn't that great from the start) into 2-3 more books.

It's a money grab

this desu

>Music is technically a form of literature

I think I've seen it all by this point

>Poems aren't literature
wew

>Music is written, performed, recorded, and listened to.
>Audio books are written, read, recorded, and listened to.
>Audio books are literature
>Music is literature

>I think I've seen it all by this point
xvideos.com/video351738/trash

Alienation due to capitalism.

why do you do this in every thread

Audio books are not literature, they are recorded readings

Music doesn't equal poems

t. other

I was wrong

There were further fields, filled with nonsense I had not yet laid eyes on

Truly the universe is a cornucopia of strange shit

>xvideos

nah im alright fampai

Music is a recorded "reading" of written music.

We haven't had enough time to sort the gems from the clods. Remember that many great writters die before they get famous

someone actually took the time, he put all those books in a compilation, took the picture, and uploaded it. this is satre

>Porn is written, performed, recorded and listened to
>Porn is literature

>Me fucking your mother is written, performed, recorded and listened to
>Fucking your mother is literature

Go kill yourself.

Valeria Luiselli and Evan Dara are my top two contemporary writers

In other words, read more.

Because people buy it. Welcome to capitalism.

>hurr durr im really smart guys so ill dismiss these wrong generation stereotypes xDD im observant just look for good music and books, stuff like sufjan stevens theres good stuff too!!!i am very smart.

404 literature not found

I thought you guys liked Infinite Jest

Her final products are trashy, but Kesha herself can actually sing: youtube.com/watch?v=oa4jGB-8si4

This, it seems like literature takes an especially long time to have its classics sorted out.

As a general rule I say you need a decade minimum to judge an era, and that's for fast-changing things like pop music and video games. Literature probably requires at least 50.

Definition of literature: "Written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit."
Is music not a written work?

It's not just limited to literature, I don't know what happened in the later half of the 20th century that made every art form die.

>trashy
Certainly, but that doesn't entail bad.

>Is music not a written work?
Most music isn't.

got a big kek out of this one

>I wasn't the only person on Veeky Forums who read and enjoyed blankets

How? I found it completely randomly browsing in a library I'd never been in before. Is it actually popular?

Pulp fiction was always a thing, the only difference is that there are more "readers" now than before, and that the the digital age preserves everything.
>In the past good literature was in vogue
In the past
Wrong, no literature was "in vogue [sic]" in the past, today's reading society where the act of reading is lauded, is an anomaly. Back then, instead of reading pulpy YA novels, they wouldn't read at all. It's the same now, people don't want literature, they don't actually want to read,they: just want to stare at pages and be able to boast that they read.

But can any of you faggots actually recommend good contemporary literature that isn't pop hip young adult novels?

This , this , and this

Book market has become too big so the good books are drowned in a sea of shit and it has become hard to find the good books.

When the market was less lucrative (and the barrier of entry a little higher) you had to deal with way less commercialized trash.

Past also had a lot of trash but most of it good lost during time because nobody remembers stuff not worth remembering.

This.

Perhaps it is due to the encroaching influence of technology in our daily lives, that beauty and aesthetic have lost all meaning. The medium is now more important than the message itself. Our sense of worth of an object has moved from the concept of what an object is, to what an object accomplishes for us. We spend most of our waking hours in front of screens, and spend little or no time studying art or exploring nature. Our values are what have changed. Beauty, talent, and aesthetic no longer matter---this is why we see a major decline in literature, film, music, art, etc.

>"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...."

It's because they write shit like this, OP.

True, I fucking love stupid 80's rock/metal TURN UP THE RADIO, but Kesha is better without the autotune/electronic backing.

>Kesha is better without the autotune/electronic backing
I disagree personally but I guess I can understand why someone wouldn't like it.

They didn't die.

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Post counterexamples.