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Anonymous Tue Mar 30 14:01:13 2021 No.17906077 [Reply] [Original]

Books that deal with ugliness and the fear of getting old?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 14:07:49 2021 No.17906117 >>17906077 Bu...bump

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 14:15:08 2021 No.17906159 >>17906077 Stoner

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 14:18:59 2021 No.17906187 >>17906077 img you posted is mishima, maybe read some of his books. sea of fertility 1 + 2 has this as a main theme - loss of the vigor of youth

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 14:21:23 2021 No.17906198 >>17906159 Thanks >>17906187 I've read Mishima, that's why I posted him, but I haven't finished the Tetralogy yet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 14:26:34 2021 No.17906234 >>17906198 what else did u read by him?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 14:40:27 2021 No.17906332 >>17906234 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea Confessions of a Mask The Temple of the Golden Pavillion Spring Snow Runaway Horses

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 14:59:40 2021 No.17906444 >>17906332 Where should someone who has never read him start?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 15:02:44 2021 No.17906461 >>17906444 Spring Snow is a good starting point imo

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 15:02:50 2021 No.17906462 File: 50 KB, 295x473, skylark.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] s k y l a r k k y l a r k

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 15:04:06 2021 No.17906472 >>17906444 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is my favourite single novel, but Spring Snow and the rest of tetralogy is the best way to get a full overview of his work, as I talked about here >>17900737 in a thread earlier today.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 16:11:29 2021 No.17907007 >>17906077 the death of ivan ilyich

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 16:13:54 2021 No.17907024 >>17906077 SVN AND STEEL

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 16:49:41 2021 No.17907284 >>17906077 The tartar steppes is vaguely around that theme.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 18:19:22 2021 No.17907899 >>17906077 Dorian Gray?

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 18:23:36 2021 No.17907937 >>17906077 Much of Yeats later poetry, like The Tower. Check out Sailing to Byzantium if you haven't. Also Welbeck, kinda.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 30 18:26:02 2021 No.17907948 >>17906159 Totally untrue lmao. Stoner is not at all fearful of getting old, nor is his aging particularly ugly.