/lit/ - Literature

Is there more like this?

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Good on you for starting this anon. I like the 1st and 2nd books in the trilogy.

Hi /lit/

What are your suggested books that deal with melancholy and suicide?

If you're not already familiar, I highly recommend Edouard Leve's Suicide along with his other few works.

It speaks of suicide without exaggeration, melodrama or pseudo-intellectual waffle. It's the straight forward, first-person perspective of a man doing through his mundane hum-drum days leading up to his suicide.

It neither glorifies or denigrates suicide.

What is most remarkable is its candid self realisation that amongst the inner turmoil and drive toward self destruction, that it is to a degree also a selfish decision with ramifications on his wife.

Despite this acute awareness, the author took his own life in a rather similar manner not too long after writing.

The book has no side to sell, and I again strongly recommend it.

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What are some good books about suicide?

Thoughts on Édouard Levé?

>You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When you were still young, your suffering was inconsolable because you believed it to be unfounded.

>Your suicide was scandalously beautiful…

>You died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void. We shall have to wait for death before we can know what it is that you found. Or before leaving off knowing anything at all, if it is to be silence and emptiness that awaits us.

You can't do a book called Suicide then not do it afterwards

Anybody read this?

It's definitely /lit/-tier. Very similar to The Man Who Sleeps by Georges Perec.

I have a copy at home with a bunch of stuff underlined. I could post a bunch of quotations from it if anyone is interested.

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