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Looking for a book critical of looking at society, of misanthropy or generally deny the man and his creations.

>> No.1269576

How about Anthem by Ayn Rand.
It's about the future, and discusses how a fully communist regime is robbing people of their essence.
Though I read a long time ago, and that's a very quick crappy plot line of it.

>> No.1269578

>>1269573
Who needs a book to grasp misanthropy? Pick up a history book, read it, spend a few weeks in various social settings, spend a week in solitude considering the experiences.

You will come to hate mankind as I have.

>> No.1269579

Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre.

Hilarious satire and critique of the modern era. Won the booker prize a few years or so back.

>> No.1269584

Anything by Jonathan Swift. A Modest Proposal would be a good place to start.

>> No.1269587

>>1269584
A Modest Proposal is the worst thing he ever wrote.

>> No.1269590

>>1269587

I really hope you're trolling. It's considered the most perfect satire ever written.

>> No.1269591

>>1269587
Possibly. But it's certainly the most famous thing he ever wrote, which is what makes it a good place to start you pretentious douche.

>> No.1269592

>>1269590
No, Catch-22 was the most perfect satire ever written.

>> No.1269593

>>1269592

Opinions will be opinions, boys.

>> No.1269596

Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, focuses on the soulless nature of corporate life.

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, predicts almost everything wrong with modern life.

Neuromancer, by William Gibson, predicts a lot of the problems the internet has caused. It also has rastafarians on the Moon, so that's OK.

>> No.1269597

>>1269591
Famous does not mean good. Hating it for being mindlessly repetitive does not make me pretentious. His point is clear and concise very early in the essay, and yet he goes on to repeat himself over and over again with minor changes in the wording.

It's hardly misanthropic, anyway.

>> No.1269595

>>1269591

Aren't we forgetting Gulliver's Travels? Made-for-TV movies and suchlike.

>> No.1269609

How about Jean Paul Sartre - Nausea ?

>> No.1269611

Candide.

>> No.1269612

>>1269609

OP, existentialism is good stuff for fostering misanthropy.

Personally, I prefer Camus to Sartre.

>Captcha: Paingry evermore

>> No.1269620

Molier - Misanthrope ?

>> No.1269621

>>1269612
I don't agree with this take at all.

Camus stresses not the hate of humanity as much as the indifference of universe. Not the same thing.

>> No.1269640

>>1269612

I agree.

I'd add Samuel Beckett to the list.

>> No.1269847

1984

>> No.1269853

The Dream of Perpetual Motion was a really good example of just what you described.