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What are some books where nothing happens?

>> No.11306962

>>11306937
The Sun Also Rises

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>>11306937
My diary desu

>> No.11306991

>>11306962
this

also

>The Remains of the Day
>Stoner
>Waiting for Godot
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.11307000

>>11306962
I really hate this book
for OP: fear and loathing in las vegas

>> No.11307012

>>11306937
Much ado About Nothing

>> No.11307014

>>11306966
ouch. hurts bad desu

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Murder of the Dead.

>> No.11307049

>>11306937
the pale king

>> No.11308043

Yellow wallpaper?

>> No.11308224

American Psycho

>> No.11308231

>>11306991
A ton of stuff happens in Stoner and Portrait of the Artist. Unless OP means like inconsequential

>> No.11308357

Old Rendering Plant

>> No.11308358

>>11307000
Why does everyone hate it? Why do I love it? The writing style is so wonderful and descriptive, yet brief. I didn't care that nothing happened, I loved the characters and the scenery.

>> No.11308360

>>11306937
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>> No.11308481

Nausea, by Sartre.

Terribly boring in my opinion but my Uni teachers glorify it

>> No.11308522

The Unnamable.

>> No.11308532

>>11306962
A lot of things happen in TSAR. I'm starting to think you people are all retarded.

>> No.11308540

>>11306937
Not nothing, but under the volcano spends a lot of time in a bathtub

>> No.11309158

>>11306991
>>11307000
It was bait you faggots. You don't belong on a literature board.

>> No.11309297

>>11306937
Un homme qui dort

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>>11306937

>> No.11309363

>>11306937
"My Diary, Desu", my diary desu and this >>11306966

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>> No.11309582

did she died?

>> No.11309656

>>11306937
Robinson Crusoe, the Swiss Family Robinson, most of the book of Leviticus, my diary, this thread.

>> No.11309665

>>11308522
this. if you want to plunge into 300 pages of unbroken text where absolutely nothing happens, go for it

>> No.11309764

Lord of the rings

>> No.11309784

>>11308481
came here for this, glad I'm not the only one

>> No.11309986

>>11306937
1Q84
Waiting for godot

>> No.11309995

Madame Bovary
Hamlet
Ulysses

Coincidentally also the 3 greatest works of fiction ever.

>> No.11310008

>no one has mention Oblomov

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>>11306937

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>>11306962
Glad am not only one that thought nothing really happened.

>> No.11310164

>>11309582
she's fine

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>> No.11310270

>>11306937
the tartar steppe

>> No.11310596

>>11309297
>>11310008
>>11310021
These are the answers I was looking for, glad /lit/ delivered

>> No.11310818

The Mezzanine

>> No.11310831

>>11310180
Seconding this. Nothing happens.

>> No.11311101

>>11306991
Holy shit, can we FINALLY talk about Waiting for Godot on /lit/ ?

>> No.11311141

Brothers Karamazov

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>>11309995
>Hamlet

>> No.11311147

>>11308532
>hasn't been enlightened

>> No.11311151

Any good enough literary book is a book in which nothing happens, if you’re enough of a pleb, as everyone in this thread is (except for me).

>> No.11311161

>>11308224
Six-ish murder scenes don't seem like nothing happening

>> No.11311448

Not a book, but the manga The Walking Man, which is just a guy walking around

>> No.11312401

>>11311141
t. brainlet

>> No.11313891

>>11311101
theres a thread about it my negro

>> No.11313906

>>11308481
Anymore of this true vein?

>> No.11313926

texts for nothing

>> No.11313965

>>11308358
Because it perfectly portrays a toxic relationship and unrequited love.
Also cuz bill is funny as shit.

>> No.11314072

>>11306937
Seconding The Unnameable as the quintessential book where literally nothing happens.
The Tartar Steppe, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Nausea, The Mezzanine, A Man Asleep, Oblomov are also good books where some things do happen, but in the end they amount to nothing.
For my part, I'll add Reticence by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (whom I never see discussed here), where something may have happened, but then again, probably not.
>>11308360
>>11308522
>>11309297
>>11310008
>>11310270
>>11310818

>> No.11314075

>>11306937
I just remembered David Markson, who writes great non-novels with non-plots where Nothing happens.

>> No.11314247

Against Nature/Against The Grain

Fantastic book.

>> No.11314261

>>11306937
The Man without qualities

>> No.11314525

Beckett's later work. Besides The Unnameable I especially recommend the collection Nohow on.
Finnegan's Wake (nothing discernible that is)
Zettel's Traum