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Anonymous Tue Jul 31 22:56:42 2018 No.11549233 [Reply] [Original]

Is there a book that can just break me as a person?

I just want to know if there's a book (novel, anything) that just explores the idea that his main chracter/man in general will achieve nothing in the end.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 22:59:18 2018 No.11549242 Just write an autobiography

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 31 23:02:28 2018 No.11549254 >>11549242 nice

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 05:38:31 2018 No.11550421 >>11549242 VERY underrated.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 05:47:11 2018 No.11550442 File: 10 KB, 350x334, darknes.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11549242

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 05:56:17 2018 No.11550461 >>11549242 /thread

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 06:12:01 2018 No.11550514 For Bread Alone has this feel; the absurdity of making an effort not to starve to death when you live in an unsympathetic society and you aren't shit to begin with.

Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:20:54 2018 No.11551314

>>11549233
Read Molloy by Samuel Beckett. If it scratches this particular itch (it will), finish the trilogy with Malone Dies and The Unnameable.

‘All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:23:19 2018 No.11551319 >>11549233 New Grub Street by Gissing is like this, man fails by sticking to his principles. Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald, also.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:31:34 2018 No.11551344 File: 8 KB, 300x318, dr evil.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11549242

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:43:13 2018 No.11551383 You guys never left your high school mindset, and what's so funny is that you not only believe you've moved on from it, but that you think you're better for and than it now. You are a confused pitiful little group.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 10:54:38 2018 No.11551432 >>11549233 read Infinite Jest unironically

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 11:07:51 2018 No.11551484 >>11549233 thomas the obscure

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 11:10:05 2018 No.11551491 Read this short story by Henry James called Beast in the Jungle https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1093/1093-h/1093-h.htm

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 11:39:37 2018 No.11551594 >>11549242 fpbp shut it down

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 11:41:36 2018 No.11551602 >>11549233 Thomas Bernhard

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 12:08:47 2018 No.11551717 Most of Gaddis's books Some of Krasznahorkai: Satantango and Melancholy of Resistance especially

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 12:15:50 2018 No.11551756 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 12:17:47 2018 No.11551763 >>11549233 Beelzebubs Tales to his Grandson

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 1 13:11:26 2018 No.11551940 >>11549233 Laszlo Krascnahorkai

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