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ITT: Writers who lived on the edge of sanity.

>> No.2583859
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Clearly a time bomb waiting to go off.

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I can't imagine anyone who took as many drugs and wrote the books he has being very sane

>> No.2583857

>Harlan Ellison

>> No.2583861

this could be an interesting thread.. but im not going to add anything constructive to it because im sick of seein lovecrafts face

>> No.2583862

>>2583860
Burroughs?

>> No.2583863

>>2583861
Well I never

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>> No.2583888

ITT: every author of any literary merit ever.

>> No.2583894

>>2583888
>lovecraft
>literary merit
pick one

>> No.2583889

>>2583860
he was probably more sane than you expect. you crazy bastard, look in the mirror.

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>> No.2583912

>>2581727

this guy for sure

>> No.2583932

>>2583901
bullshit. i'll admit that bob dylan deserves to stand amongst the best literary minds, but he is NOT crazy nor was he ever.

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>>2583932
70s Dylan would like to have a word with you.

>> No.2583941

>>2583939
70's dylan?? you're giving 80's dylan a lot of undue credit by saying so.

>> No.2583958

Thanks all! Crazy authors have been my literary fetish for a while now and with y'all help here's what I've chosen

Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nausea - Jean-Paul Satre

The Skull - Philip K. Dick


The Soft Machine - William S. Burroughs


Angry Candy - Harlan Ellison


Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories

The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays - Albert Camus


The Stranger - Albert Camus


Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

>> No.2583967

>>2583958
knut hamsun's hunger. you need to add that to your list.. and read it before all the others. its important to start with a decent benchmark from which to weigh up the others merit

>> No.2583968

>>2583958
needs moar 'under the volcano'. lowry

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The only reason I post this page is because I just saved it from a /co/ thread, but Neil Adams.

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Not all his life, but he got farther as he got older.

>> No.2583998

>>2583993
Joyce went insane due to the syphilis that robbed him of his eyesight.

Everyone knows this.

>> No.2583997

>>2583958

Check out anything by Antonin Artaud, I'm pretty sure you'll like it.

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more like beyond the edge...

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This guy.

It seems like tons of authors are barely holding on. Be it general craziness or depression.