Has anyone ever written a classic when they were in their 80+? I never hear about really old people writing books...

Has anyone ever written a classic when they were in their 80+? I never hear about really old people writing books, do old people just suck at everything involving creativity or something? Pic unrelated.

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They suck at being in good enough physical and mental health.

Umberto Eco died at 84 and wrote until his very last days

Pynchon is 79
McCarthy is 83 or 84 and is releasing a new book next year
Gass is in his fuckin 90's, I think he released something in his 80's
Toni Morrison is 85
who do you think is gonna go first?
probably Bloom

>probably Bloom
bloom looks fucking like he's dying in recent pictures. sad really, he seems like a great man.

saramago

Tolstoy kept writing great stuff into his old age.

>tolstoy
>ever writing anything great
a prize example of a pleb.

Either they are dead or they inspiration has dried

jk howling is an old hag writing about hags
you can do it too op

Maybe Plato's very last dialogue

The mind tends to deteriorate as people age, but there are exceptions as noted.

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As far as I remember Goethe finished Faust when he was in his 80s.

Yeah and that's why no one ever reads the second part. There's hardly even one character with more than two lines.

>do old people just suck at everything involving creativity or something?

not necessarily user

>Yeah and that's why no one ever reads the second part.

correction: no PLEBS read the second part

he wrote this when he was 83. great book tbqhwy

Ravelstein.

thats a trap

...

It's clearly a man

This must be bait. Or a triggered American. True patricians rate Tolstoy highly.

would still fuck tho

as long as he doesn't have horrible feet. he'd better wear some cute shoes

barzun published this when he was 92