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Dear /lit/,
Would you please recommend literature that's written in the format of a diary?

You may also write about keeping a journal in general. (I for one fucking love my diary and just spent an hour writing while smoking a cigar. Cigars are pretty awesome, too.)

>> No.3382006

inb4 house of leaves

>> No.3382011

>>3382001
Stoker's Dracula is a diary and epistolary fuckfest

>> No.3382019

the pillow book

>> No.3382021

diary of a superfluous man
a hero of our time

>> No.3382023

J.P. Sartre's Nausea

>> No.3382029

Manual of Painting and Calligraphy by Jose Saramago

>> No.3382046

Steppenwolf does it well.

Loads of Gothic novels sort of pretend to do it and then forget half way through. Like Wuthering Heights is *technically* all in Lockwood's diary, I think, but not really.

>> No.3382089

You're looking for epistolary novels.

The triumph of this genre is Bridget Jones' Diary, of course. Also, The Sorrows of Young Werther.

>> No.3382090

iirc, 'Dracula' is written in the format of a diary.

>> No.3382092

>>3382001
Wolfe, 'Book of the Short Sun'.

>> No.3382117

Book of Disquiet

>> No.3382118

>>3382092
this and Book of the New Sun, which is more of a recounting of events

>> No.3382144

Notes from Underground

>> No.3382151

Samuel Richardson's 'Pamela'

>> No.3382155
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Diary of Anne Frank

>> No.3382189

CTRL + F

Flowers for Algernon

>I'm dissapoint