/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.4127775]

ITT the most grotesque or (and) impressive Descriptions of Violence from books you've ever seen. (Or the ones that had impact on you)

[Anonymous No.4127780]

The bit with the baby in the Road is the that immedately comes to mind. A couple of parts of Under the Skin too. In fact, that book's pretty much lopped me over into vegetarianism for good.

[Anonymous No.4127789]

blood meridian

damn babby violence

[Anonymous No.4127793]

This may sound like a weird answer, but I think I cringed more at the nose job section in V than I ever did at any graphic violence.

[Anonymous No.4127794]

Why would you want to read about violence?

[Anonymous No.4127792]

A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.

-The Comanche Attack, Blood Meridian

[Anonymous No.4127809]

It's better to read about violence than to practice it.
Well, for many reasons. The main are:
1) Inspiration
2) Necessity of Soulquake
3) I'm and edgy-fag kid.

[Anonymous No.4127813]

>>4127775
i cant remember the story but it was about a cow. written by tim o brien. might have been how to tell a true war story but idk

[Anonymous No.4127833]

>>4127794
it's a pretty significant part of life

[Anonymous No.4127871]

>>4127793
Same here.

[Anonymous No.4127884]

I know it's cliche at this point but Blood Meridian does get it right, especially that part when the I believe Comanches kill everyone and rape the corpses, I read it a long time ago so I might be misremembering

[Anonymous No.4127889]

>>4127793
this and the part when the children "disasemble" V were my favorite parts from that book

[Anonymous No.4127903]

2666 had quite a few gruesome scenes. The rape and castration in the Mexican prison. The emasculation of the Rumanian officer. Plus 100 or so dead women and girls.

[Anonymous No.4127919]

Raskolnikovs dream of the abused mare.

[Anonymous No.4127940]

>>4127919
yeah

[Anonymous No.4127950]

Warhammer 40k: Ultramarines Omnibus

One Ultramarine turned left instead of right on the parade ground, I cried for days.

[Anonymous No.4128194]

Infinite Jest:

Babby rotting and fusing into it's mother, little dog tied to car which is then driven at great speed down a hill, reducing the critter to a "nub" of flesh, guy getting skewered mouth through ass, the duel with the canadians, and the pet killings

[Anonymous No.4128196]

>>4127792
This is posted every damn time. I swear /lit/ never reads anything new.

But fuck that entire book was written beautifully.

[Anonymous No.4128205]

>>4127793
agreed.
>>4128194
The pet killings made me really uncomfortable. For some reason gruesome animal deaths always bug me more than when people get fucked up.

[painful bowel movement No.4128222]

>>4128194
Protip: the thing about a guy getting skewered ass through mouth is from a white slave narrative of the eighteenth century: that of a captive of the Algerian pirates hardy har harrrrry.

[Anonymous No.4128248]

I wish I had the excerpt, but the accident scene in Christ in Concrete was one of the most graphic and disturbing passages I've ever read.

If anyone has a copy of the book lying around, I'd request that they type it up and post it, because it is seriously grim.

[Anonymous No.4128346]

Probably some description of human sacrifice.

[Anonymous No.4128374]

>>4127919
This.

[Anonymous No.4128397]

Aeneas describing the myrmidons murdering errybody in Troy in Marlowe's "Dido".

[Anonymous No.4128407]

In Catch-22 when Snowden dies

[Anonymous No.4128411]

>>4127780

The cannibal cellar was way worse than the baby on the spit.

[Anonymous No.4128424]

Glokta's torture scenes in The First Law trilogy were pretty great.

[Anonymous No.4128436]

Diomedes stabbing a chariot driver through the side of the head and out the other. The man was still alive until his horses trampled him. And then darkness took him.

[Anonymous No.4128440]

Oh hell, the fucking cannibal cellar. If that ain't nightmare fuel, I don't know what is.

[Anonymous No.4128452]

>>4128407

[Anonymous No.4128475]

Jeff Geraerts 'Gangreen 2

best part is by the end it's you the reader who is rooting for the torture.

[Anonymous No.4128511]

>>4127775
It was in spanish but I can translate it. It's from "Los Gallinazos sin Plumas" or the Featherless Vultures by Julio Ramon Ribeyro. I suggest you read the short thing if you can before you continue with this.
>His gaze descended to the pig's den. Pascual devoured something in the mud. Still remained the tail and legs of the dog.
"¡No!" screamed Enrique covering his eyes. "¡No, no!" and through his tears he looked for Grandpa. This he tried to escape, gyrating awkwardly over his cane. Enrique began his dance on his own axis, latching on of his shirt, yelling, kicking, trying to see his eyes, to find a response.

[Anonymous No.4128586]

>>4128440

yea was svurry

[Anonymous No.4128612]

>>4128424
but those were pure entertainment, his witty banter with the assistants, them finishing each others sentences
fucking abercrombie made me laugh during torture scenes

[Anonymous No.4128616]

the possessed industrial steamroller eating a mans arm in stephen kings night shift

the shrike impaling the writer slowly towards the end of Fall of Hyperion

[Anonymous No.4128915]

American Psycho, Bateman puts a rat up a hookers snatch, rips her open with bare hands from the belly button to retrieve it, then stomps the rat to death as an afterthought. It's kind of fucked up!

[Anonymous No.4128954]

>>4128612

That fucking part where they suggest smashing someone's feet is too pedestrian had me in stitches.

[Anonymous No.4128957]

>>4127775

""... there was a bang and he fell covered in blood with a shot to the head. He collapsed into his corner of the trench and remained there with his head against the wall of the trench, in a crouching position. His snoring death rattle came at lengthening intervals until it stopped altogether. During the final twitches he passed water. I crouched next to him and registered these events impassively.""

This one fucked with me

[Anonymous No.4129081]

In the Penal Colony by Kafka. Its pretty impressive.
I don't read much _______________violence

[Anonymous No.4129112]

Not directly violence, but the part with the foetus in Infinite Jest was pretty gruesome.

[Anonymous No.4129311]

>>4127775
The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea.
The kitten getting killed.

[Anonymous No.4129318]

>>4129311
Oh shit yeah. And the whole of Patriotism. The romanticization/eroticization of the violence makes it especially disquieting - doubly so when you take into account Mishima's actual suicide.

[Anonymous No.4129350]

>>4128407
There, there. There, there.

[Anonymous No.4129364]

>>4129112
Have you read Incarnations of Burned Children?

[Anonymous No.4129366]

Vargas Llosa has two notable cases.

Feast of the Goat torture scenes. They are putrid; they are too well written. But they're short, they're shocking.
And Dream of The Celt Africa/Amazonia parts, that are almost the opposite; the are are lenghty, never ending nightmares that aren't too detailed unlike in Feast. In their nihilism, the reader can and at least I lost faith in the people portrayed in the book: that is the point?

[Anonymous No.4129402]

>>4129366
Feast of the Goat is really putrid

> Dictator's son and friends gang rape a middle school aged daughter of a prominent family. The Son gets disapproval only because of the latter aspect.
> Father offering his boss a chance to take his 14 year old daughters virginity to further his political standing
> Dictator's visits to his subordinates wives
> Three 10 or so page long torture scenes with way too descriptive prose about cigarettes burning holes to skin, excrement fed to prisoners, stench of torture chambers, Doctors treating prisoners so that they can be tortured as long as possible and a father disowning his son
> Dictator's "comedic" narration of parshley massacre and how people regard it
> Dictator's son in general