/lit/ - Literature

Does anybody know of any ENGLISH literature (I hate reading translations of fiction unless they have inherent literary merit) that best expresses the concept of mono no aware: that is to say the "pathos of things", or the awareness of impermanence, or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.

I use the term because (a) I know the language, and (b) it's the only term I can think of that best represents my taste. If anybody knows of a similar English word I'd like to hear it.

My favourite books are the oeuvres of Poe and Lovecraft. I liked Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun, as well as McCarthy's The Road. I also liked The Picture of Dorian Gray, Hodgson's The House on the Borderland, Sir Richard Francis Burton's translation of the One Thousand and One Nights, Shakespeare's Macbeth, Ecclesiastes in the KJV Bible, Pope's translation of Homer's oeuvre, Jack London's To Build a Fire, Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Ursula K. LeGuin's The Earthsea Quartet, John Williams' Stoner, Plato's Phaedo, and Epictetus' Enchiridion along with Seneca's oeuvre.

My favourite composers are Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven, Liszt, Ravel, and Faure.

My favourite artists are the Impressionists and Romanticists: particularly Van Gogh, Munch, Cezanne, and Janmot.

I'm also an anime-fan. I liked Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou, Kino no Tabi, Spice and Wolf, Berserk, Cowboy Bebop, Haibane Renmei, Tegami Bachi, Knights of Sidonia, and SoRaNoWoTo.

>Inb4 reddit spacing

I write like this because it makes my post less convoluted. I took quite a chunk of my time making this long list of recommendations, so I hope you guys will reciprocate.

>Pic related is Sur la Montagne from Le Poeme de l'ame by the aforementioned Louis Janmot.