/lit/ - Literature

>>18489871
As I've increasingly become more and isolated, my thoughts have been turning each day more disturbing, and my fantasies get both more violent and megalomaniac.

books on maladaptive daydreaming?

self bump

>>13973690
>cosmic horror = lovecraftian
tourist

I saw that people appreciate spanish literature in here, and I was wondering if anyone has read El Árbol de la Ciencia / The Tree of Knowledge by spanish author Pío Baroja. It's pretty good and I thought you guys would like it.

Lemme copy-paste a review of it I saw online because this guy's better than me at paraphrasing.

>El Árbol de la Ciencia is Pio Baroja’s study of the career and attitude of a late 19th Century medical student trying to make ideological and professional progress in a stagnating Spanish society. Struggling for his own ‘camino propio’ as a thinker and man of science, but finding only a kind of state-sponsored determinism which has everyone in a moral and philosophical rut, Baroja’s autobiographical protagonist Andres Hurtado is an incorrigible pessimist and cynic going through a protracted metaphysical crisis. Man is, he claims, ‘one millimetre above a monkey, when not one centimetre below a pig,' and he e is gripped by a nauseating sense of disorientation in life; ‘the anguish, the desperation of not knowing what to do with life, of having no plan, of feeling lost.’
>The novel takes up with Hurtado finishing his studies in Madrid, where he paints a damning portrait of bourgeois society. Having graduated, he next takes up a post as a doctor in a small provincial town, where he becomes anti-social and quite ill with the lack of intellectual stimulae on offer, as well as isolating himself from the community as a result of his idealism. The town leaves him with the impression of a Spain still labouring under the same old caciquism of medieval times, with the ignorant masses quietly and apathetically dependent on their decadent – and equally ignorant - landowning patrons.


Sorry for shilling, I just think you guys would like it so I'm trying to make this book more known.
Pic unrelated.

Post the most disturbing stories you've ever read whether it be books or internet stories

Are there any books that are completely insane, like the topics or the protagonist. Like batshit crazy.

I want something so grotesque that I'll have to vomit during reading.

>>8935116
Yes!
Gogol > Dostoyevsky > Tolstoy