/lit/ - Literature

Your mom's back tattoo

>>15424397
Where the red fern grows

Krasznahorkai’s 'War and War'

>>15424397
Stoic philosophy

Didn't read it yet but from what I read about it Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Ligotti qualifies

my diary desu

>>15424397
Meu Pé de Laranja Lima when I was 12 or 13. Jesus Christ, it was a rollercoaster of absolute misery.

This might be a cliche answer, but it's one of /lit/'s go-to depressing books for a reason

>>15424397
hamsun hunger

>>15424397
Neither of these are overtly sad, but only two things I have read have ever made me cry- Harold Brodkey's the State of Grace, and Sherwood Anderson's brothers.

>>15424397
Spengler

>>15424454
what about them made you cry?

>>15424441
This

>>15424439
This guy's diary

>>15424439
>>15424574
Yeah this guy's diary just fucking sucks. I mean, it fucking BLOWS. Seriously.

>>15424397
the manga about the nerdy shy girl who becomes a crack whore; can't remember what it's called

>>15424478
I'm not really sure. If I did then they probably wouldn't make me cry.

>>15424608

Is that the one about the girl who's bullied so much she becomes a slut? That's pretty sad because it all rings true and the author says it's pretty much autobiographical.

>>15424397
Single motherhood increased by almost 10x in the sixties and this is perpetuated by the welfare state which will only get larger as our leaders continue to sell their offices to the highest bidder.

>>15424397
Unironically Virginia Woolf's suicide note

>>15424440
Never read Meu pe de laranja lima,but Rosinha minha canoa is some sad stuff too

http://www.2arms1head.com/

>>15424397
my fucking birth certificate desu

>>15425016
Based and blackpilled

the technological society

>>15424397
The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

>>15425016
Job-esque

>>15424397
the catalog

the /lit/ magazine that keeps getting published.
Its bad and clearly only has 2 contributers

>>15425171
Look at this madlad

>>15424942
Dearest,

I feel certain I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that - everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer.

I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

>>15425198
Kek

I'm surprised not one person has mentioned The Road.

Sad as heck.

>>15425225
feels

>>15425225

dude what she have??

>>15425328

she had testicles

>>15425198
yeah, i'm thinking this is based

>>15424397
Arthur Schnitzler's The Lonely Way. Far from the darkest shit out there but fucked me up somehow

>>15425062
>>15425280
It has a happy ending, which eliminates it from this contest.
Unless you subscribe to the belief that they eat the kid.

>>15425388

whats teh theory on the *spoiler*eating the kid*spoiler*

>>15425438

i apologize on my behalf

>>15425462
Snape kills Dumbledore

>>15425483

the ring is actually frodos butthole

>>15425328
Schizophrenia

>>15425438
There's the idea that at the end of the book after the dad has died and the kid gets found by the other family, it could be seen as they had been tailing them for a while, and now with out the dad, the kid is an easy meal

>>15425621

ah thats probably true knowing old cormac mcarthy

>>15424784
please post title

>>15425721

no lol

>>15425721

Its his moms diary thats all

>>15425198
They hated him, for he was too based for this world.

>>15425721
Boku no Crackwhore

>>15425721
Henshin Emergence (Metamorphosis)

>>15425688
it's not, if he wants you to know the kid is eaten he fucking tells you. How do I know? He LITERALLY does it in Outer Dark.

The kid in The Road is gucci

>>15424397
HP and The deathly Hallows

>>15424397
This hit me pretty hard.

The social media feed of my high school classmates

>>15425898
existential nightmare fuel right here. honestly should be required reading in high school.

>>15424397
>For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

>>15426121

>>15424397
King Lear was pretty fucking depressive.

>>15426132
Funny dick joke

>>15426132
How much does an unused cock go for on the open market? >>15426290

>>15424441
I love that cover. I read the book but I didn't understand it. Cover looks like one of those burned shadows on the walls, from nuke blasts

>>15424397
"/pol/ was right again"

>>15425388
Even if the kid gets eaten, the ending is far from happy. The point of “carrying the fire” is that he will have to continue doing so through incredibly difficult times. His father was his world and seemed at times to be an indestructible figure, yet he died sick and wounded. The world of The Road is nothing but cruel

>>15426346
>but I didn't understand it
What exactly made it difficult for you to understand?

>>15426132
"For sale:
Expired condom. Never worn."

>>15426373
I meant to say “even if the kid doesn’t get eaten”

>>15425842
for me it only got sad at the end when she looked at a pair of glasses and breoke down into tears

>>15426375
It was a long time ago. I dont remember it. I was ready to love it because of it being popular here but i didnt understand the character. What was his problem?

Second the anon that recommended the tartar steppe btw. Deeply sad book

>>15426385
Fuck you.

>>15425898
When he's forced away in the carriage reminded me what it's like to have sleep paralysis, I felt physically uncomfortable.

>>15424397
Unironically a holocaust memoir by a borderline autistic italian chemist

>>15424440
I was so sure Portuga was going to uplift his family out of poverty...

>>15425225
What's this from?

>>15426346
That’s an interesting interpretation of the cover since I think one of the ways the book can be read is as a description of how many Japanese felt lost in postwar Japan. Obviously that isn’t that main theme but it’s something I noticed

>>15426527
>The intense heat of the atomic explosion caused what are called nuclear shadows. The blast changed the colors of surfaces like steps, walls, and pavement because of the UV radiation that was emitted. When things that were soon to be vaporized blocked whatever what was behind them, they didn't allow this UV color change to happen. And, as a result, outlines of people and objects incinerated in the bombing left haunting shadow imprints behind on such surfaces.

Hiroshima shadow locations are found throughout the city, on everything from banks to temples. The shadows caused by atomic bombs are often the only remnants left of human beings. Those vaporized in the blast left imprints behind so the legacy of Hiroshima cannot be forgotten.

History.

>>15426524
Virginia Woolf's suicide note

>>15424397
Was actually pretty sad towards the end when Naoko kills herself. It really felt out of nowhere, especially since she seemed to be recovering .

The lyrics to Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt.

Joseph Heller- Something Happened

>>15424441
The settlin sun hits me more

>>15424397
capital

>>15424441
>tfw your life is worse than the protagonist's in this novel

happy, wholesome things that I'll never have get me depressed. loves like pride and prejudice, friendships like three men on a boat, a zest for life like kerouac

>>15425328
She was bipolar. The schizophrenia hypotesis was refuted.

>>15425381
I feel u

Claus and Lucas by Kristof is my pick.

>>15427988
The original song was written by the hack of Trent Reznor

On the note of sad lyrics, Bury me not on the lone Prairie is relevant too

bernhard yes or correction
pessoa book of disquiet

>>15425225
damn...

Read Dying Inside

>>15425898
ye fuck this

The Elementary Particles is pretty fucking blackpilling

>>15428123
This

>>15424425
filtered

The Crossing is excruciatingly sad. He just wanted to do the right thing.

>>15425898
This

>>15425004
fucking hell, started to read that, thanks for posting

THE GOD-WORM

Universal factor of transformism.
Son of teleological matter,
In overabundance or misery,
Worm - is its obscure baptismal name.

Never employ the bitter exorcism
In his daily funereal occupation,
And lives in contact with a bacterium,
Free from the clothes of anthropomorphism.

Luncheon the rot of agrupas,
Dine on drops, gnaws thin guts
And from the new dead the hand swells ...

Ah! For him is that the meat can stay,
And not rich matter inventory
Your children have a bigger share!

>>15426602
i always thought the train scene in Spirited Away was a subtle allusion toward this

>>15427909
Really? I think it was really obvious that that would happen.

>>15424424
One of my favorite books ever.

>>15425438
>*spoiler*
Look newfag I'm going to cut you some slack because you are at least making an on-topic post. press ctrl+s while writing your reply to automatically create spoiler tags.

>>15425898
>>15425171
Great choices

>>15426427
Seems cool I'll check it out

>>15424397
my *clap* diary *clap* desu

>>15428123
Although other books are sadder, including philosophical texts, nothing will guarantee leaving the reader as depressed as when he reads marx or starts to properly understand the marxists

>>15428646
The entire border trilogy is the saddest form of media I’ve ever come across. Everything John and Billy end up attempting to do becomes incredibly futile in the end. Will always be my favorite novels

>>15424397
>most of suttree
>benny's rant in The Recognitions
>what goldmund says to narcissus at the end of the book

>>15429532
The Crossing is particularly dark, and an underrated Corncob masterpiece along BM and S*ttree. Something about Cities of the Plain just didnt work for me at all though. Maybe my least reaction to any novel of his.

Lolita put me in a weird melancholic state for 3 days straight, but I was around 15 at the time.

Some stuff by Mann and Wilde.
Some poems by Heine and Philip Larkin.
The Maimed, Ungar.
Atomized, Platform and The Map and the Territory by Houellebecq.
Effie Briest, Fontane.
Richard Yates' whole body of work but especially his short story collections.
An Anne Frank biography.
Dubliners, by fart fetish guy.

There's probably more.

>>15429274
Based Marx

I'm not crying, y-you're crying..

The Rainbow Ballroom of Romance. It’s a short story

>>15429895
gay

>>15425004
>This all happened in a matter of seconds. The vivid detail with which I remember these last moments is quite pronounced in my mind. Up to the very point of impact, my visual image of the donkey’s face was perfectly sharp. I saw the texture of his furry head in increasingly close-up detail as my eyes came within about three feet of him. The next thing may sound odd or it may not, but just before the left end of my handlebar smashed into his face and killed him I perceived him to be expressing some kind of emotion. He looked a bit crestfallen, or penitent. Maybe it was just the normal downward position of his head that gave me this impression, but he seemed to lower it perhaps slightly more than usual and to cast his eyes down like an abused dog, submissively resigned to a beating it sees coming. Or maybe my imagination is running away with me. Anyhow, I’ve since said to myself many times “Fucking donkey!” but the truth is that I have no resentment toward him. I hope he had a good donkey life.

>>15425388
The happy ending for the boy doesn't dispel the intense melancholy of the setting. The scale of human suffering and loss makes it pretty depressing regardless of the boys fate. Especially the flashbacks to the mother/wife.

>>15425062
anyone here read the Hetalia f*nfiction based on this as a weeb teen? it's called Gutters. really well-written if you ask me

>>15429932
Fuck, that was a hard read. RIP Clayton.

>>15424397
The ending to The Idiot.

I was depressed for a couple days because I loved Prince Myshkin so much and the world destroyed his beautiful soul.

I will ALWAYS associate this song with the book, I think it fits perfectly with the story and message.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ0FQovU0Ws

The Book of Lies - The Notebook, the Proof, the Third Lie by Agota Kristoff.

>>15430049
also this from Anna Karenina. How sad. it reminds me of kenneth lonergan's writing philosophy which pretty much hits its peak in manchester by the sea - real life isn't about what's said, it's about the things left unsaid, the sentiments and feelings which fall through between the crevices of our own personal islands we dare not stray from, all of us in a sense: alone

>>15430082
>>15430049
also this from LIBRA by Don Delillo. Poor sad, mad lee oswald.

>>15424397
my diary desu

Psychoanalysis. If you read through Freud and Lacan and really get it you realise the human condition is basically insoluble and there's nothing left but killing yourself.

>>15430634
have you read Jung ?

>>15424397
>What is the saddest and most depressing shit you've ever read?
>>15424397

>>15428760
>I think it was really obvious that that would happen.
That's the thing, throughout the book you know that they can't stay together, but you want to believe that everything will go well.

>>15425066
>>15425388
>>15425688
>>15426322
>>15426411
>>15427988
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>>15428600
Checked.

>>15424929
The inevitable, and current, growth of the govt. is a sad spectacle.

>>15430639
No.

>>15424397
my online friend telling me "We can't be friends anymore"...

Pokler walking through Camp Dora. The whole chapter is the greatest piece of writing I've ever read. Pynchon ascends in such chapters.

>>15431151
:(

>>15431151
Bro... I know that feel

>>15424397
1984

>>15430634
No. If you really get it you realize the whole thing was a jewish sham.

>>15424397

>>15431717
context? what retard made this screencap

The slow death of Europe.

>>15431749
abloo bloo

>>15424397
Either Will O' the Wisp by Drieu La Rochelle or A Man Asleep by Perec.
The former is about a man killing himself after understanding that all the things that make people live (children, art, etc.) are of the utmost unimportance to him. The latter is about a young student that suddenly stop all of his activities, while the "story" in itself isn't depressing the conclusion is horrible if you are depressed yourself. A Man Asleep is also very interesting because the story is told through the pronoun "you", which makes it even more relatable.
If you feel hopeless now, these books are certainly amongst the worst you could read.

>>15431732

some /pol/tard thought this was deep, reddit and facebook boomer refugees.

>>15431763
This post

A Day No Pigs Would Die if you're looking for "coming-of-age rural tragedy" vibes

The Rise of Life on Earth if you're looking for "innocence taken advantage of to irredeemable levels" vibes

>>15424397
An autobiography of my life.

>>15426121

>>15425062
Pepsi Commercial, The Book

>>15427909
Basically a harem Anime in book form

>>15430634
just wait for gene editing, designer babies, transhumanism and artificial wombs bro.

>>15433437
i dream of it in my magical daydream reality where life is perfect, but i fear irl it would bring a dystopia. just imagine if those in power could control literal human genome

>>15433428
fuck i laughed out loud lmao

it's my favorite book, but man, some of those sex scenes just felt forced, especially when he fucked the piano teacher

>>15433596
But if you can "fix" the human, there's no incentive to make anyone suffer. The ruling classes have no reason not to self-edit and much to lose by keeping the masses unhappy. At worst, you get Brave New World, which is truly not that bad.

>>15424397
>still not posted itt

>>15424397
A stack of resumes left behind when a job fair ended.

How to get a job should be taught in school. It's too important to be learned about by accident.

>>15433707
i read it when i was 23 and i felt like i was too old , the dude wrote a YA novel and ppl fell for it
it's great if you found it good but it really puzzles me when people mention it in a positive light
all the sex was unearned ,the MC is the most basic a character can be

>>15430634
>Lacan
i'd rather not. Freud does the same thing better.

>>15424397
The Player by Dostoevskij.

>>15424397
it's not really sad book , but the master and margarita when you read about the author and get to think about margarita who put together the book
it hits hard man , rest easy buglakov nigga