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Any books that have a bleak, melancholic or pessimistic tone?

>> No.14653388

>>14653356
Ahem.

>Hunger(Hamsun)
>Canti(Leopardi)
>Flowers of Evil and Le spleen du Paris(Baudelaire)
>A season in Hell(Rimbaud)
>On the Heights of Despair(Cioran) havent read this one
>Nerve Scales(Artaud) his letters are also good

>> No.14653445

>>14653356
The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa, Titus Groan by Peake

>> No.14653470

>>14653356
Claus and Lucas trilogy by Ágota Kristof

>> No.14653516

>>14653445
>The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa
seconding this
it's exactly what you're looking for, OP

>> No.14653548

>>14653388
>>14653516
I often wonder if it's possible to write something melancholic without it being pessimistic.

They compliment each other well of course, but I think it'd be more interesting to see something that has that same kind of beautiful sadness while still managing to avoid pessimism.

>> No.14653564

>>14653548
I found Stoner to be like that

>> No.14654211

>>14653356
Dostoyevsky- ah, most of it.

Try macbeth and hamlet also.

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>>14653548
You replied to my post just to lump everything I reccomended into the same group. Ok, retard. Leopardi's Canti's and Artaud are both generally not necessarily pessimistic at all, in fact the former you could consider a realist in general. In Canti he slowly goes from this melancholic dreariness to a absolute ball ennui. Artaud has a warped world view that is a complete negation of everything, he is not pessimistic but rather completely innovative. In fact this "I WANT SAD BUT NOT LIKE PESSIMISTIC BRO" can be found right in the open with Schopenhauer, he gets memed a lot but has the most beautiful writing out of most German philosophers, what you'll find is a man upset at the nature of life almost as if he's apologizing throughout, not some pessimistic misogynist old man like he's made out to be(that description fits Nietzsche much more easily). Schopenhauer's managed to influence more people in the non-philosophy field then he has philosophy. Also, Coldridge and Dazai are both very 'sad' in nature without being pessimistic. Fucking retard do some fucking retard you fucking retard do some fucking research you fucking retard do some fucking research research it you fucking retard FUCK YOU

>> No.14654624

>>14653548
Lord of the Rings. The entire world feels extremely melancholic. Everything is ending, the elves are leaving, magic is almost gone, the innocence of the Hobbits has been destroyed.

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>>14653356
Read and watch these.

Mystique of enlightenment

>https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/U.G.-Krishnamurti-The-Mystique-of-Enlightenment.pdf

>https://ug-krishnamurti.blogspot.com/2010/09/question-of-mind-ug-krishnamurti-what.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNJ3oDLkoX0 [Open] [Open]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC1GULbovo8 [Open] [Open]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx8f76kuGAY [Open] [Open]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRNvmZtASqA [Open] [Open]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsNfoiU-_4 [Open] [Open]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-LZSl6TGdw [Open] [Open]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exoQ3W-6E4 [Open] [Open]

>> No.14654756

>>14653548
>I often wonder if it's possible to write something melancholic without it being pessimistic.
Mason & Dixon

>> No.14655026

>>14653548
Bernlef - Out of Mind
One of the best Dutch books, it really fits your description.