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Is there any literature that's more brutal/bleak than McCarthy novels without being deliberately edgy or horror?

>> No.23344184

>>23344100
Inferno section of the Divine Comedy

>> No.23344214

Poor Folk is very bleak.

>> No.23344265

There are some of the cliche ones like 1984 and lolita and there are the more philosophical books like the stranger by camus and notes from the underground by dostoevsky.
To be fair most of dostoevsky and camus's books are pretty dark, except dostoevsky's early works but they are still sad but not dark and gloomy like the post-exile/army ones.

>> No.23344270

>>23344100
Harry Potter

>> No.23344274

How is McCarthy not deliberately edgy? If you're going to be a hypocrite from the premise there's no point in answering the question.

>> No.23344286

On the Beach by Nevil Shute.

>> No.23344822

>>23344286

Seconded. Also Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald.

>> No.23344863

>>23344265
Lolita isn't bleak, quite the opposite.

>> No.23345151

>>23344274
I didn't imply he wasn't did I?

>> No.23345153

>>23344274
How is he deliberately edgy? faggot

>> No.23345174

Germinal

>> No.23345487

>>23344100
Based depressed /cm/ bro.

>> No.23345541

>>23344100
Ssmuel Beckett's trilogy; Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

>> No.23345776

>>23345541
Endgame is essentially The Road without all that sappy Disney stuff