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Can you recommend bleak, depressing novels about a person experiencing a downward spiral? Something where one's life turns from good to bad (or bad to worse). And it never gets better.

>> No.13942238

>>13942231
Pretty much all of Kafkas work

>> No.13942249

>>13942231
The spiraling stairs reminds me of House of Leaves. I guess in a way it is also about a man's downward spiral in life, at least for Johnny.

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>>13942231
Jack London, Martin Eden

Bad to good to bad to worse, worser, worst.

>> No.13942486

A lot of Graham Greene novels, especially The Power and The Glory. He does "bleak" and "never gets better" extremely well.

>> No.13942562

My diary, desu

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sorrows of young werther desu

>> No.13942609

>>13942249
This

>> No.13942615

The obvious answer is Anna Karenina

>> No.13943774

bump

>> No.13943850

Job