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10845177 No.10845177 [Reply] [Original]

What books are so hedonistic that it delves into its ugliness? Story of the Eye comes to mind and I thought Child of God was sort of like that too.

Similar to Lil Pump's lyrics about "dick up in the throat" and "she gon swallow kids, that's a kids cuisine." I don't think many guys would object to a qt giving a blowjob but when it's phrased like that it sounds genuinely off-putting

>> No.10845184

>>10845177
William S Burroughs' whole bibliography. Literally any of his books.

>> No.10845241

Canterbury Tales, sort of. It's also immensely funny too but only if you think things like a man kissing a woman's hairy dirty asshole and mistaking it for a bearded man is funny.

>> No.10845347

>>10845177
isn't hedonism inherently ugly anyway hence it being hedonism

>> No.10845359

>>10845184

This. His books breathe the ennui of hedonism taken it to its furthest reaches without being boring themselves. He one upped Sade in that regard.

>> No.10845364

>>10845184
Hell never mind his books. His fucking biography is just as bad

>> No.10845372

La Bas by Huysman but on a much higher level of profane versus sacred than your petty examples of throat fucking.

>> No.10845378

>>10845364
the way he treated his son is disgusting

>> No.10845392

>>10845372
I only really used the lyrics as an example because I was listening to that track at the time and it made me consider making this thread. I know it's not the most literary example out there, but I thought it helped articulate what I was looking for. Gonna check out La Bas now, thanks anon.

>> No.10845453

>>10845392
It's a novel that explores Gilles de Rais rapes and child murders in the context of Satanism, leading to the contemporary (1890s) practice of Satanism. The sexually profane is a central element of it, but the purpose of profane, that is sacrilege and the destruction of the sacred and good, is the higher focus. Profanity is detailed an erotic manic phenomenon of sacrilege against anything held sacred, cherished or beautiful.

>> No.10845459

>>10845177
120 Days of Sodom, though I suppose it is somewhat satirical

>> No.10845478

>>10845177
>and I thought Child of God was sort of like that too.
how so?

>> No.10845484

>>10845478
It's been a while since I've read it but I remember he rapes a dead woman and takes her body for whenever he feels the urge to fuck her and I think the guy got his rocks off killing people. I might be remembering it incorrectly in fairness

>> No.10845485

>>10845177
https://www.amazon.com/Sublimes-Yuri-Mamleyev-ebook/dp/B015ORQPMU

bar none

>> No.10845518

Hogg, Delany. Utter filth.
Marquis de Sade's longer works, like Juliette, Justine and 120 Days of Sodom (his shorter stuff shows more restraint and more erotic suggestion)
As another anon said, Huysmans. Au rebours is a perfect portrayal of decadence - beauty so rich, intoxicating and plentiful that it suffocates. Obviously, Dorian Gray as well.
Jean Genet.

>> No.10845526

Also Mann's Death in Venice is sort of about this. The lure of dangerous beauty, the line between the divine and the decadent. The decay of Apollonian asceticism and austerity into primal Dionysian indulgence.

>> No.10845588

>>10845484
i felt he kind of fell in love with her in a way

>> No.10845600

>>10845588
I probably need to re-read it again to be honest but what you say rings true

>> No.10845755

Less Than Zero