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What works properly describe the emptiness and alienation that we suffer from in our capitalist/liberal society? Like Houellebecq except not as obnoxiously French.

>> No.12791563

my dairy desu

>> No.12791587

Marx's work

>> No.12791649

Fight Club and My Work Is Not Yet Done

>> No.12791729

Gerontion (poem)

>> No.12791749

>>12791587
That's not really literature

>> No.12791769

>>12791535
You want a book that describes your situation instead of trying to learn how to talk to your fucking neighbor?

>> No.12792064

>>12791769
The decay of society has nothing to do with whether you can talk to your neighbor, idiot

>> No.12792070

>>12792064
you could complain with your neighbors instead of reading about it?

>> No.12792083
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Houellebecq, Michel. Love him. One would like to film him at breakfast, feeding a sardine to his cat.

>> No.12792145

Houellebecq is a bad writer.

>> No.12792159

>>12792145
He's good at capturing feelings of melancholy and hopelessness

>> No.12792178

>>12792145
Whatever is a great work

>> No.12792373

>>12791535
>we
Speak for yourself man. This society is great, you just lack purpose.

>> No.12792572

>>12791535
Check out Money, or London Fields by Martin Amis, he's much funnier than Houellebecq and unobnoxiously English.

>> No.12792579

i don't need a book for that :(

>> No.12792607

>>12792178
>"The thesis is that the sexual revolution of the Sixties created not communism but capitalism in the sexual market, that the unattractive underclass is exiled while the privileged initiates are drained by corruption, sloth, and excess."
this but unironically ironically unironically

>> No.12792621

>>12791535
BS Johnson - Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDMV4UF_-Rs

>> No.12792698

>>12791535
Read Ryu Murakami, In the Miso Soup, Coin locker Babies and Popular Hits from the Showa Period is the order I recommend; the first two are of a much higher quality than the rest of his oeuvre

>> No.12792732

>>12791535
The Recognitions

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>>12791535
>The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

>> No.12794080

>>12792607
I mean, that's entirely correct

>> No.12795607

>>12791587
>muh working in coal mine me kill big boss

get with the times you autistic fucking retard