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What are some books about being a sad, defeated failure?

>> No.11777824

MY

>> No.11777827

DIARY

>> No.11777836

DESU

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May I at least carry, to the boundless possibility contained in the abyss of everything, the glory of my disillusion like that of a great dream, and the splendour of not believing like a banner of defeat: a banner in feeble hands, but still and all a banner, dragged through mud and the blood of the weak but raised high for who knows what reason – whether in defiance, or as a challenge, or in mere desperation – as we vanish into quicksand. No one knows for what reason, because no one knows anything, and the sand swallows those with banners as it swallows those without. And the sand covers everything: my life, my prose, my eternity.

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

>> No.11777903

Notes from underground

>> No.11778217

Most of Beckett, with the added advantage that its frequently funny.

>> No.11778499

>>11777816
What everyone in this thread said, Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Thomas Bernhard’s works, Stoner, Invisible Man, a surprisingly lot of David Foster Wallace desu is about pathetic, crushed failures of people, a sort of Northern Gothic exploiting the grotesque in the modern urban life... Infinite Jest, The Pale King, and his short stories, like Brief Interviews, have some miserable characters