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What are some good novels involving incest?

>> No.8607532

Nabokov's Ada, or Ardor is a good one for this although I agree with that one critic's assessment that it is somewhat of a "bloated pudding" of a novel

>> No.8607533

The Catcher in the Rye

>> No.8607534

>>8607533

The dubs of truth.

>> No.8607537

I heard Anais Nin wrote about it a lot.

>> No.8607642

It doesn't revolve around it, but Flow My Tears The Policeman Said has some nice incest

>> No.8607645

>>8607523
Book of the New Sun

>> No.8607692

>>8607523
basically any mythology

>> No.8608396

>>8607523
>>8607537

Delta of Venus
Middlesex

>> No.8608416

If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister? by Theodore Sturgeon


It's a short story but whatever

>> No.8608419

>>8607533

Holden did absolutely nothing wrong

>> No.8608425

>>8607523
The Cement Garden.

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>>8608438

>> No.8608524

>>8607523
In Skagboys, the main guy jacks off his severely disabled younger brother while they watch the weathergirl

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>>8608438
/thread

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>>8607532
I love bloated pudding, though. Especially with rice.

>> No.8608748

>>8607523
the god of small things has a bit of incest in it

>> No.8608760

Jude the obscure

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>>8608438
>two daughters get their father drunk and have sex with him so they can get pregnant right after an entire city was fucking obliterated by God and their mother turned to a pillar of salt

>> No.8608774

>>8608762
pretty similar thing happened to my cousins. I don't think god destroyed a city.....well....it was in detroit. I dunno.

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>>8607523
Pic related by Melville (subtle mother/son and sister/brother) and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

>> No.8609483

>>8607533
Here we go again

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>>8607523

The Kindly Ones

>> No.8609493

all I can think of is that fucked up scene in Infinite Jest, with the disabled girl.

>> No.8609770

>>8609493
that and the implied avril/oran thing

>> No.8609777

>>8609493
>>8609770
and avril/charles, hence mario

>> No.8609793

Flowers in the attic

>> No.8609796

>>8607533
Holy shit I literally forgot that this was a meme. I haven't seen those posts in, ages.

>> No.8609808

>>8607523
Banana Yoshimoto's N.P. Apparently her other novels feature incest as well.

>> No.8609869

My diary desu

>> No.8609917

The Art Of The Deal

>> No.8609926

Homo Faber

But I think that was a twist. I think I just spoiled you, but it is still a very good book. If you can, read it in german.

>> No.8610161

>>8609796
I haven't even read the damn book, I just posted because of that.

>> No.8610166

>>8608774
>well....it was in detroit
kek

Detroit is the new Sodom

>> No.8610641

>>8607523
If you're willing to compromise on the "good" part, Kafka on the Shore by Murakami.

>> No.8610644

>>8608438
Beat me to it.

>> No.8610688

>>8610166
you realize Sodom became so fucked up because of how rich it was?

>> No.8611130

The libreto to the ring cycle

>> No.8611359

The cement garden

>> No.8611448

>>8609777
bruh

>> No.8612348

>>8607523
100 Years of Solitude

It also has some massive Colombian cocks

>> No.8613429

>>8607523
The Crow Girl