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20010422 No.20010422 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best books in which the narrator/writer is extremely angry, and it comes across in the prose?

>> No.20010447

Journey to the End of the Night.

>> No.20010448
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>>20010422
kingsley amis' novels. it's not quite the incel brand of anger if that's what you're after. but he had bottomless wells of venom he liked directing at certain intellectual types for a laugh

>> No.20010459

>>20010447
Castle to Castle is even angrier
the whole thing is a big rant against everyone
it's very funny too

>> No.20010475

>>20010448
Kek what book is that except from?

>> No.20010478

>>20010422
Anything by Thomas Bernhard. Preferably Woodcutters.

>> No.20010480

>>20010422
Dostoy was seething for most of notes from undergroun

>> No.20010490

>>20010422
The pure 600+ page impotent academic seethe that is The Tunnel. Very caustic. Gaddis is often extremely bitter in his style, especially in Agapé Agape where it’s obvious he is basically giving up on the hope of redeeming the world with great art.

>> No.20010574

>>20010475
actually that's from his letters which are all top draw banter

>> No.20010600

>>20010448
>THEN I start getting angry
topkek

>> No.20010698

>>20010422
Sally Rooney

>> No.20010711

>>20010480
Seconding Notes from the Underground

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Pic related, although he's not mad so much at porn as he is at the people for whom porn is created, and also the Athenians.

>> No.20010772

>>20010422
I have a "fantasy" novella where the MC is an incredibly brutal Übermensch who is called to rescue a meek, helpless and retarded humanity from itself. He's a force of nature who incarnates true, raw power and a heightened will, so he displays far more noble thoughts than anyone else in the story while tearing people's skulls off their neck with his bare hands. It all oozes with my disgust for those who expect someone else to do the dirty work while contributing to entropy. Most of these people are violently removed by Mr. Chad Thundercock and are surprised when it happens. I think it's too transparent though so I'll probably never publish it.

>> No.20010894

>>20010772
I mean, Shield Hero not only got published but it's very popular. Might as well give it a shot.

>> No.20010930

>>20010422
Trifles for a Massacre

>> No.20011090

>>20010422
A good amount of Vonnegut is just an angry old man being bitter and most of the remainder is just his trying to come to terms with being an angry bitter old man.

>> No.20011091

>>20010422
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_young_men

>> No.20011111

>>20010422
Rousseau's The Social Contract seemed pretty brutal from what I remember

>> No.20011211

>>20010719
The legendary pirate Blackbeard wrote a book against PORN?!

>> No.20011353

>>20010719
I got a big chunk through this and can confirm, his entire thesis boils down to: "Porn isn't bad, you just lack the responsibility to be intimate with people so you view life through a hedonistic lens."
It's like if Lasch watched too many twerking videos.