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About Steven Van Neste

Steven Van Neste

Bio: My interest has always been beyond it all; my first genuine act of breath was reading Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil' and as such my thought has always remained intrigued by Nietzsche Dionysian impulse. All my work is a composition of exploration; there is no reality but there is only the Wasteland and the true avant garde artist is he who dares to stretch his being into nothingness.

Genres: Poetry: the purest of expression … true poetry is essential spirituality, it is beyond formalism and the key to understanding poetry is in the adjective ‘poetic’ … to surrender to a purity of expression that explores the stream of consciousness as it overwhelms the anxious self. In poetry we can find the grandest of expression! All writing should strife to being poetic! As for genres they are meaningless and ultimately great works do not adhere to them, at most genre might serve as contextual symbolism. What matters most is the psychology of it all, what is the meaning of the specified existence? What is the turmoil of consciousness? What happens in the mind being fractured as it witnesses its own devastating realism?

Main Website:: www.stevenvanneste.com

Publishing Credits: Novel: "Blue Devil" (Publish America)
Poetry: "The Black Sun Of Birth (Publish America)

My two early publications; much has changed since and I am hoping to get more published whenever I have time to find a publisher; I am constantly working on new things, poetry, short stories, novels, philosophy etc It does mean that it takes a long time for anything to be finished, but I prefer being genuine and thus never force anything.

Awards: Some people liked my work on Writerscafe.com but I left that site behind since for the most part it was filled with people who do not understand literature and who write because it is fun, or it is therapeutic or whatever. The majority of people still have little understanding as to what is literature; it is not just about the written word, it is all about expression: the writer must express himself, it is a pure drive of spiritual activity that comes as natural as breathing.

Influences: Literature:
(just a few key figures)
James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Apollinaire: for daring to be inventive and to break out of the trap of formalism and ‘accepted’ style
Stendhal, Goethe, Lord Byron: for deep and often dark psychology
Dostoevsky: for the complexity of existence
Kafka: for the weirdness and absurdity of it all

Music:
Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner, Anton Bruckner, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev, Ludwig von Beethoven
Toru Takemitsu, Gyorgy Ligeti, Luigi Nono, John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Oliver Messiaen

Cinema:
Federico Felini, Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Haneke, Kyoshi Kurosawa, Shinya Tsukamoto, Lars von Trier

Painting:
Salvador Dali, Paul Delvaux, Jackson, Pollok, Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondriaan, Umberto Boccioni

Philosophy:
Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Emmanuel Levinas, Heraclitus, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer

(And for the rest I also am seriously interested in and influenced by science and mathematics.)

Favourite Books: To name but three
Kafka’s The Trial
Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Stendhal’s Red And Black

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What Are You Listening To?

Added a post Sep. 27, 2008

Just finished listening to Brahms Clarinet Quintet and Clarinet Trio; now I need to run to the store and get myself a nice cool Foster's to drink to stimulate me while typing and as I type I probab... Read More »

What Is Your Working Practice?

Added a post Sep. 27, 2008

I think I suffer from some bizarre synesthesia, words just come to me, they come rather abstract and with my pen I try to make them a tad more concrete. I usually always have music on when i write ... Read More »

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Writing in a reactive way is a big problem really; there is a lot of opinion out there in the guise of original thought but the problem is that people often do not think. It is a philosophical aswe... Read More »

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Deconstruction and Literature: Towards A Future Of Expression

In the film of Pulse (Kairo) by the great modern Japanese filmmaker Kyoshi Kurosawa, we are faced with the rapid growth of the internet; we all connect to the cyber world, but what does connection mean? Kurosawa’s commentary was for the most part concerning social connections which of course inevitably lead to the idea of communicative connections and as such we can also come to a new dimension of literature and the involved humanism present within literary expression. The key to Kurosawa’s Puls…

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At 10:04am on April 21st, 2008, AngelLesa said…: Good Morning and have a great day.
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At 12:23pm on January 31st, 2008, C. Boylan said…: I used to believe that too: literary people are born that way, we are mediums for pre-existing stories (Stephen King also supports this theory) but then I thought it might just be my ego expanding. Now I don't know what to think.
But the rise in marketing is ruining literature for sure - in many cases...yet things like Lulu have probably helped a few talented, penniless people off the ground.
Hmm.

At 8:07pm on January 16th, 2008, Wendy Grimsley said…: hey thanks for the comment on my story . . . belated, been absolutely boged down at work, and not feeling like doing anything after but sleep. glad to see you posting, will be around by the end of the weekend to do some reading