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What are some novels about a protagonist going through (and kinda hacking it) a full blown mental breakdown? like American Psycho but the whole novel being about going through it instead of just some chapters.

>> No.20074981

the demon - hubert selby jr

>> No.20075001

>>20074981
thanks, so weird I hadn't come across this book by Selby before.

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>>20074968
SubaHibi

>> No.20075131

>>20075049
>Wonderful Everyday contains many intertextual references to a variety of philosophical and literary works: including Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse, Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott, The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa. Besides that, characters sometimes directly refer to many prominent philosophers and their works, such as Leibniz, Alan Musgrave, Nicholas Cusanus, Goethe and many others.

right down my alley, thanks a lot!

>> No.20075168

>>20075049
where to pirate it, though? can't find a legit tracker that has this one.

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>>20074968
Still cant get over the existence of this meme.
Dont know why, really.

>> No.20076557

>>20075168
F95Zone has it

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>>20074968
>>20076485
>There are at least two immanentizing the eschaton memes
Who knew Voegelin was so popular

>> No.20076618

>>20074968
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
not novel but still

>> No.20076630

Kafka’s The Trial is essentially this. though not explicitly a mental breakdown, the whole novel is a slow descent into madness and oblivion

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>>20074968

>> No.20076861

>>20074968
short story but the yellow wallpaper

>> No.20078223

>>20076557
thanks!

>> No.20078246

>>20074968
The Things They Carried

>> No.20078803

>>20074968
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Ordeal of Gilbert Penfold (Evelyn Waugh)

>> No.20079017

>>20076671
Entered the thread to post this. Definitely the most visceral of actual schizophrenia ever written, not in the "hehe zany schizopost" way but the "narrator cannot function because his entire world is turning into nothing but the same grotesque patterns spiraling in on themselves" one.
Also worth mentioning:
>Under the Volcano (alcoholism)
>Havoc (also alcoholism)
>The Recognitions (almost every character has a different breakdown of some kind)

>> No.20079022

>>20074968
Surprised nobody mentioned "literally every Dostoyevsky novel".

>> No.20079283

Divine Comedy
The Green Man iirc, its been a while

>>20079017
>>20076671
>narrator cannot function because his entire world is turning into nothing but the same grotesque patterns spiraling in on themselves
picked up

>> No.20079414

>>20079283
Fun little addendum - The Blind Owl is cursed. Supposed to make its readers commit suicide like the author did.
It was banned by the Shah's government for being critical of it, unbanned after the Iranian Revolution, and then rebanned because the theocracy believes in curses.