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19755817 No.19755817 [Reply] [Original]

Books that have a bleak, melancholic or pessimistic tone?

>> No.19755818

Have sex loser

>> No.19755829
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>>19755817
>Godspeed, you Black Emperor!

>> No.19755831

>>19755818
Have Sex Loser is certainly an excellent exploration of the condition of modern man, but it's a bit complex for beginners. I'd recommend OP read Seething and Dilation, one of Pessoa's lesser known early works. It's quite experimental but it's accessible enough that I think OP would enjoy it.

>> No.19755839

>>19755817
Rings of Saturn ,W.G Sebald. By all accounts his other works would fit as well.

>> No.19755890

>>19755817
my diary desu

>> No.19755935
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>>19755817
Picrel
>>19755829
Indeed sliver mt. Zion are the superiour group

>> No.19756151

>>19755817
Blood Meridian

>> No.19756395

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
>>19755935
there's nothing wrong in the pic

>> No.19756495

>>19755935
What’s the name of the album beside “Swans”?

>> No.19756587

>>19756495
No idea but that Swans album is great.

>> No.19756599

>>19756495
might be Deathconsciousness

>> No.19756680

>>19755935
Have a nice life-Deathconsciousness
Swans-soundtracks for the blind
Joy division-Closer
GYBE!-F A ∞

>> No.19756717

>>19755817
what's some good depressing poetry like OP's pic?

>> No.19757071

>>19755817
The Wasp Factory
Teatro Grottesco
A Collapse of Horses

>> No.19757163

>>19755817
Ohio. First chapter has too many pop cultural references. Good otherwise.

>> No.19757200

>>19755839
based fellow Sebald chad.
Austerlitz definitely fits what OP wants (besides cock)

>> No.19757230

>>19755817
I'm currently reading Saltus and I've never read anything so pessimistic in my life. It makes The Conspiracy Against The Human Race look like The Joy Of Tidying Up.

>> No.19757290

Précis de décompostition, Cioran.

>> No.19757299

>>19757230
what book?

>> No.19757306

>>19757230
What do you recommend from him?

>> No.19757318

>>19755817
The lyrics remind me of Cormac McCarthy - The Road, Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men. Thomas Bernhard for pessimism, but the kind of curmudgeony pessimism of Schopenhauer, which can actually, paradoxically, be kind of comfy.

>>19755829
Tell me what you like and I'll post a söyjack to hurt your feelings too anon.

>>19755831
I've fucked 26 women at this point and it doesn't help.

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That might help.

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this movie

>> No.19757436

>>19757423
More likely L'Argent.

>> No.19757545
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>>19757299
>>19757306
The Philosophy of Disenchantment. Its on the usual places in pdf.

>> No.19757595

>>19757412
Why is The Man Without Qualities supposed to be doomer? Contrary to the title it’s not actually about a man without qualities.

>> No.19757607

The death of Ivan Ilitch, Notes from the underground, Suicide (Levé), A man asleep.

>> No.19757660

>>19757545
I don't get it, you haven't presented anything about it that makes it sound THAT pessimistic so far. Pretty typical stuff here

I might read it but could you atleast give a quick summary of what makes you consider it even darker than Conspiracy Against the Human Race?

>> No.19757671

>>19755817
The Tartar Steppe but in a somewhat different way.

>> No.19758131

>>19756495
Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness

>> No.19758223

Anything Russian should do the trick. The world has yet to shit out a more gloomy, servile, wretched race.

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>>19755829
>posting basedjaks

>> No.19758382

>>19755817
Anything by Ligotti. I havent read it in a while but particularly of his fiction, check out Grimscribe.
At the Prison Colony, The Metamorphesis, The Vultute by Franz Kafka
No Longer Human
Steppenwulf I think

>>19757660
I'm not sure anything can be more pessimistic than "Intelligent life is by its very nature maladapted and miserable."

>>19756717
Ligotti actually does poems.

>> No.19759750

>>19755817
The Road

>> No.19759825

>>19755935
Chad starterpack

>> No.19759839

>>19755817
Journey to the end of the night

>> No.19759855

>>19755817
Jude the Obscure

>> No.19759871

Emile Zola and Frank Hardy are the authors I go to for this kind of thing. Both seemed to derive joy from making their characters suffer in cruel and unusual ways.

>> No.19760505

>>19758131
>>19756599
Thanks for sharing the name!

>> No.19761328

>>19756395
I didn't say that there's anything wrong in the pic.

>> No.19761389

>>19755829
it's actually Godspeed You! Black Emperor
I don't really care for them

>> No.19761399

>>19757071
>A Collapse of Horses
great title
what's it about?
goodreads is full of wankers

>> No.19761497

>>19761399
Short story collection. Main theme is perception and the illusion of light. Of course it is not that straightforward.

>> No.19761665

>>19755817
The opposing shore by gracq. Feels pretty appropriate for America/Europe at this point.

>> No.19761674

>>19755839
Sebald does not fit this description, you fucking loser

>> No.19761681

>>19757595
The person who made that chart hasn’t read any of those books. He just reads the their descriptions. The business of living is hardly depressing unless you count the last 5 pages where Pavese writes his suicide note as “sooner” despite the 97% of the book not being like that.