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3086936 No.3086936[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

After looking through the recommended reading wiki, I am still having trouble deciphering what genre to look for.

This is what interests me...

1. Aburdism and nihilism (I've read The Stranger and Myth of Sisyphus already.)
2. Decay
3. Ruins/anything really ruined
4. Old things (like finding a dusty picture of your great grandmother)

Any suggestions? I know. I'm boring.

>> No.3086943

Absurdist: Beckett, Stoppard, Bulgakov
Decay: The Trial, The Maimed, Hunger
Ruins: Seems the same as "Decay"
Old Things: Victorian lit?

idk, I tried.

>> No.3086953

>>3086943
Thank you.

By old things, I mean, for example, finding a an abandoned house and finding broken/old belongings inside.

Sorry for not being clear. I have trouble with that.

>> No.3086957

Shelley - "Ozymandias"

a sonnet that captures the latter 3 ideas you mention quite well.

Also, absurdism and 'nihilism' are for high schoolers and dumb faggots.

>> No.3086961

>>3086957
Shelley - "Ozymandias"
this is a bang on suggestion

>> No.3086962

>>3086953
Some Borges comes to mind