Confessions on Sidechat | consider some of the widely-regarded literary figures whose work can accurately be described as “nihilistic”—Kafka, Dostoevsky, Dazai, McCarthy to buy into an oversimplified definition of nihilism is to flatly dismiss the merit & depth of their writing

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consider some of the widely-regarded literary figures whose work can accurately be described as “nihilistic”—Kafka, Dostoevsky, Dazai, McCarthy to buy into an oversimplified definition of nihilism is to flatly dismiss the merit & depth of their writing

nihilism gets kind of an unfairly bad rap because most people associate the term with “giving up entirely” rather than “making peace with meaninglessness” or “a willingness to acknowledge futility”

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