/lit/ - Literature

>>20053084
The poetry the other students write in my class.
A) Because it's always about trauma, depression, etc.
B) Because it's always dreadfully boring

>>20053084
The Tunnel by Gass

Books that belong on this list:
Stoner
The Sound of the Mountain
Skylark
The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea

>>20053084
Une vie by Maupassant
and also some of Balzac's stuff was dreadful

Stoner. Where do I go from here if I want to wade deeper into sadness

>>20053089
god this is true. Beautiful or brilliant literary texts about misery have in the very brilliance an answer to the problem they pose. that even misery can be worthwhile, profound, etc.
the godawful banalities of most people trying to express their suffering are worse because there is no redemption, the suffering is not noble or profound, only boring and mildly irritating

>>20053084
None of those books are doomer. You’re just a mentally weak loser.

>>20053084
The Bible

the post office girl by zweig

I found Notes from Underground quite depressing at parts. I wouldn't call it a doomer book, though.

Everything is so fucked. I can't un-blackpill myself. The only thing I'm eagerly looking forward to is death

>>20053084
my diary desu

>>20053084
crime and punishment it was gloomy but not so dark as to make one sick or something like you desire

>>20054211
Cringe

>>20053084
is streets of crocodiles supposed to be doomer?

The Stranger - Albert Camus

>>20053084
My diary desu

>>20053084

The Tartar steppe

It hit me particularly because I'm leaving behind my youth at 26 and recently lived a great deal of changes in my life.

>>20053084
Flowers for Algernon

>>20053084
The ending of A Farewell To Arms is a gut punch. The Tartar Steppe for existential dread. The Letters of Van Gogh are depressing but inspiring at the same time

my diary desu

>>20053089

I read William Blake and William Wordsworth's poetic body of work this last month. It takes character to abstain from talking about your bullshit every fucking chance they get. The biggest favour your classmates could do themselves is write about joy, or at the least, someone else's struggle.

>>20054656

Too far down, we are slipping

>>20053084
A Scanner Darkly. It doesn't really play up the sad parts of the plot, but some of the ending scenes with brain dead Arctor are really touching.

In general PKD books have a lot of melancholy on them for three reasons:

1. The main characters rarely have agency and are unable to triumph over their opposition, or only have micro-victories while knowing that these victories won't do anything.

2. The themes are about disconnection and loneliness.

3. He had a sad life, so he was well versed in sadness.

The scene where Bob Arctor asks the receptionist out in the scramble suit, or when Deckard finds out that the frog is electronic are both fantastic examples of this desu. It might sound weird if you haven't read it, but these unconventional scenes are so human and heart-wrenching it's unreal .

>>20056924

Arctor's initial head injury... he didn't opt for degradation the way other junkies had, he was put on a path to it.

>>20053084
Great Expectations. Original ending of course, not that new shit.

>>20053084
The Woman in the Dunes.

>>20056140
Cope

>>20053354
No Longer Human really fucked me up. It didn't help that I read it during a depressive episode in a mental hospital, either.
It's basically a suicide note by Osamu Dazai in novel form. There's also a manga by Junji Ito adapted from it, and it's quite good. I won't spoil the manga, but...it's very different, in a good way.

3rd for stoner

>>20053110
>>20053354
>>20059795
Why do you guys find Stoner depressing?