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>> No.10047927

My diary.

>> No.10047930

>>10047924
so my novel is about a misunderstand intelect who writes for a living. he's a virgin and finds an escort who not only takes his virginity but also falls in love with him. its also really witty

>> No.10047965

>>10047924
anything by dostoyevsky

>> No.10047968

>>10047924
SABBATH'S THEATER

>> No.10047973

>>10047965
Stavrogin hehe (was it rape?)

OP try reading "Gilles & Jeanne" by Michel Tournier. It's about Gilles de Rais who turned insane after the death of his lover Jeanne d'Arc. Fucking pedo psychopath. Worth reading. Both on libgen and openlibrary.

>> No.10047978

>>10047965
this

>> No.10047981

>>10047973
Gilles de Rais is mentioned quite a bit in Huysmans La Bas, isn't he?. Interesting character, more exciting than de Sade.

>> No.10047984

>>10047973
>>Stavrogin hehe (was it rape?)
>tfw read a translation without the Tikhon chapter
>tfw didn't realise it until years after
feels bad man, but now i can have the pleasure to read it again

>> No.10047990

>>10047965
Already read Dosty my friend - C&P, TBK, Demons and Notes.

>> No.10048037

>main character is degenerate, depraved, insane
Isn’t that the case for most literature?

Anyways, a few especially noteworthy picks that haven’t been mentioned yet:

Hamsun: Hunger
Houellebecq: Whatever, Atomized &c.
Plath: The Bell Jar
Céline: Journey to the End of Night &c.
Handke: The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
Kracht: 1979

Also there are a few "Madman’s Diary" texts, notably Gogol and Lu Xun each wrote one.

>> No.10048042

>>10048037
Book is called "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" in English apparently.

Another nice book I just though of is "Almost Transparent Blue" -- it features (bi) sex orgies, heroin dependency and excessive violence. It also features a very well written psychedelics trips.

>> No.10048045

>>10047990
Maybe it's time to read The Idiot.

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>>10047990
>>10048045
you can also read the gambler in a few hours

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>>10047924
the story of the eye, the ending is shit but the travel to get there is very nice

>> No.10048224

>>10047990
The Double is purely about going insane

>> No.10048255

What Happened: Hillay Rodham Clinton

>> No.10048283

>>10047930
here's a (you)

>> No.10048526

>>10047924

My diary desu

>> No.10048534

>>10047924
Literally all books by Bret Easton Ellis

>> No.10048536

Lolita

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10048577

I'd say Naked Lunch satisfies the whole criteria. Violent orgies, a narrator with a tenuous hold on reality, heroin use, pederasty, addictive life-prolonging semen solution, sexual mind-control experimentation.

>> No.10048580

>>10047927
CAME HERE TO POST THIS

>> No.10048590

The Repairer of Reputations does this pretty well. Lolita and Pale Fire obviously.

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>> No.10048686

American Psycho

Confederation of Dunces

>> No.10048843

>>10047930
Sounds like that fag from /r9gay/ who slept with a sex worker and started dating her.

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Into the Night
And the Ass Saw the Angel

>> No.10048915

Can't think of a better example than Moravagine. He's the most terrifying kind of madman.

>> No.10048924

>>10047924
F&LINLF

also stop being edgy