/lit/ - Literature

>>10256033
Molloy by Samuel Beckett, I hear the rest of the trilogy is even darker and more depressing. Hope I'll be able to get through it because his prose is so great.

>>10256038

>>10256033
Kite Runner by Hallafahadykahlediwani bin Sawlamdurkanimahaledinulah. That poor, poor Afghan anus.

Narziß and Goldmund made me pretty sad

>>10256044
>Hallafahadykahlediwani bin Sawlamdurkanimahaledinulah
mfw

>>10256038
Molloy, Malone dies, The Nameless One, How it is are all good pics to make you feel low

Your diary desu

>>10256283
Wut Beckett is hilarious

>>10256364
for me it was always kinda depressing

Professor Sad's Book of Sadness

>>10256347
Nots from the Underground was funny, desu

Johnny Got His Gun and All Quiet on the Western Front.

>>10256033
All Quiet On the Western Front, or Poetry by Wilfred Owen.

>>10256033
When the BBC filmed their series on Auschwitz there was a book published which followed it up, chapter by chapter. Very graphic, harrowing.

>>10256466
The holocaust never happened though, so it's basically like reading fictional horror.

>>10256033
Journey to the end of the night
Sad but also funny

>>10256466
It's fiction.

>>10256033

>no mention of Suicide by Leve

Guys. Come on.

Jude the obscure
The tartar steppe

Chuck Tingle

>>10256695
>>10256908
>dude antisemitism lmao

>>10256033
The Road was pretty fucking soul crushing desu

Claude Gueux, Victor Hugo.

>>10256033
game of thrones

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. The protagonist of that book just does not catch a break

>>10256033
The House of Mirth. It's about romantic regret, misunderstanding, and abandonment. The ending is brutal....

Bump

Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck is probably my favorite author, funnily enough because I'm french and we have some of the best litterature written in a very rich language. But Steinbeck just does it for me. I lived in the US deep south when I was a kid, maybe it's why I feel a connection to his works.

>>10260330
Are you french or "muh heritage" american

>>10258544

This, senpai

>>10258544
Same. Oddly enough I find it more depressing than Blood Meridian.

>>10258464
>The tartar steppe
>sad

Remains of the Day

Flowers for Algernon
Where the Red Fern Grows

>>10261176

That shit was melancholic indeed.

my diary tbf

>>10256033
desu stoner made me cry but its not really designed to be sad

The ending of Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms' was really rough for me.

A lot of Ray Carver's stories are incredibly depresssing, too.

>>10261148
It's incredibly sad.

>>10256033
Flowers for Algernon

>>10256033
The Idiot

>>10256033
JR by William Gaddis. but I also haven't read much hard lit

Kokoro was up there.

The Book of Disquiet
and
L'Etranger (sad in a lonely existential kinda way)

>>10256033
Parable of the Sower
Flowers for Algernon

The Host by Stephenie Meyer
I cry erytiem

>>10256347
The Road was like a stab in the hearth man.

I legit cried a few times when I read Oblomov. Not many books made me cry.

>>10256044
I had to read this back in highschool, absolutely nothing in this story touched me, maybe it'll be different if I went back and read it but it seemed so boring and it's prose was horrible.

>>10256377
try reading them aloud, it'll rustle your jimmies

>>10256466
Lord Horror, Baptised in the Blood of Millions, the Auschwitz of Oz, (Savoy Books)

The Wedding by Yann Queffelec

The Communist Manifesto. It's sad that it's not a reality yet.

>>10256033
Fernando Pessoa's books.
Try that.

>>10256033

Where'd you get that feels guy? I'm pretty sure I made that like a couple years ago.

>>10265845

nevermind this is what i made. maybe i did make that wojak too i don't know, it looks like something i might've made.

i just want to die having made one meme

>>10256033

>>10256033
unironically

Sarah Plain and Tall

also some book whose title i forget where a war torn korean kid is about to die of starvation so he starts stuffing leaves and dirt into his mouth, and then his equally deprived sister weakly tells him to not do that with what little strength she has left

>>10265946
>tfw I made a thread on /lit/ around two years ago
>tfw because of circumstances I made a meme and saw it get used a few times on here
Felt good, a shame it's pretty much dead

almost cry at the end