/lit/ - Literature

Shameles self-bump because i need recomendations

>>15994757
How'd you know I was listening to Deathconsciousness

I don't read very strange books so my best answer is American Psycho which everyone has already read

>>15994757
Yeah Maldoror is very disturbing. Try Naked Lunch and Blood Meridian. The Consumer was a bit disturbing but too try hard

>>15994757
miss lonelyhearts borders more on the depressing side but the girl next door was it for me. its based on a real story and even so i was amazed at how one could imagine some of the stuff. i dunno if id reccomend it to you though based on your favs

as for my favorite transgressive novel, naked lunch transgresses a lot of boundries and still is funny and imaginative. also definitely reccomend peru by gordon lish. its centered around something disturbing but really its about the immensely autistic poetry. you should read the first 6 pages

>>15994757
A Family Failure by Renate Rasp

It’s about a boy whose family tries to (unsuccessfully) transform into a tree. Full of torture and disturbing descriptions.

>>15995119
>peru by gordon lish
I Just ordered it .Thanks

Btw has anyone read Moravagine ?
What did you make of it ?

>>15995537
It's been a long time, didn't like it much

>>15995553
what about it you didn't like ?
For me it was that it felt largely incomplete but otherwise pretty good

>>15995639
Don't remember much to be honest, mostly I was disappointed because it was recommended as similar to Journey to the End of the Night and it was nowhere near as good. Don't remember anything disturbing about it, what was it?

>>15995706
Beyond a dismembered dog and a hanged pregnant woman ,nothing noteworthy with regards to transgressiveness.

>>15995240
disturbing premise. almost scared to read it

>>15995425
hope u like it. always wanted to talk about it with someone. it is an annoying read but it doesnt require patience to get to the good parts since whats good about it is there in every sentence. also if you vocalize your thoughts it will drive you retarted

>>15994757

>>15996094
Needs "The Seven Days of Peter Crumb"

>>15996113
>The Seven Days of Peter Crumb
Niceee

>>15995757
A teenage murdered girl. A hanging pregnant woman with the umbilical and the baby laying on the floor. Some human sacrifices and a guy performing oral sex to a bunch of indigenous women.

>>15996283
yes but compared to other stuff ,on Sade for example , its pretty tame .

>>15996488
It's honestly impressive how much of a supreme edgelord de Sade managed to be writing in the fucking 1700s. He's been the standard for fucked-up fiction bar none for hundreds of years. Even most people writing today can't keep up with him.

>>15996529
Sure ,i've been delving into disturbing literature since the start of the quarantine and the only two books that i find genuinely more horrifically evil and disturbing than Sade are the ones i mentioned in the OP.
Especially Maldoror .

>>15994757
For me it was the experience of reading 1984 along with the realization that so many people read it and don't even understand it, nor able to deduct anything for our personal lives from it. We're basically already a lot worse in many aspects and people love it. What baffles me strongly is how absolutely nobody seems to even understand the concept of 'doublethink' that is described in the book. As nonsensical as it sounds, but I truly believe that 1984 is a normie filter.

>>15997990

>why isn't Orwell obvious to everyone?

If everybody understood Orwell, we wouldn't need Orwell. Thinking more people should understand it sort of misses the point

>>15998053
Hm, fair enough. Guess I'm just in denial because the prospect of living in a world where people are too fucking stupid to understand it scares me.

>>15995240
Where do I find this anon?
Don't see it on libgen or b ok

>>15998232

Humankind cannot bear very much reality

The Wasp Factory by Iain M Banks. It's about a psychotic kid on an island with his equally psychotic father and brother.

>>15998267
in archive dot org

>>15998522
Where do you rank it in terms of transgressiveness?

>>15997990
a ridiculous amount of people say they have read it some may even have a copy, but only some have cover to covered it

>>16000285
Lol literally the most mundane comment I've ever read here. Many people have read it, others haven't - thanks for that.

>>16000425
sure it has been printed in the millions and it would be disingenuous to say only few have read the book (summaries, film, other adaptations in mind), but the point being made here is that it is a book many lie about having read

>>16000285
>>16000425
>>16000530

There was some survey a few years back which said that 1984 was the book which most people lie about having read.

Not sure how you would conduct such a survey and trust the results, but anyway.

I was surprised because it's really a pretty easy read.

(Of course, the piece of text which more people lie about reading, by a factor of 10000000, is Terms And Conditions )

>>15999599
I'd say it's pretty transgressive and disturbing, although it's not as gratuitous with violence as say American Psycho. It relies more on revolting imagery and the disturbed mental state of its narrator to unsettle you

>>15999291
Nice thanks alot

>>16001217
It reminds me of We need to talk about kevin