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Sad but life-affirming Anonymous Sun Apr 27 11:10:42 2014 No.4822765 [DELETED]

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Looking for something depressing, but far from cynical. My favorites include Stoner, anything by JD Salinger, and The Plague. I'd prefer no more than 350 pages since I have trouble concentrating lately.

>>	« 零 » !Ry9.FWKNDY Sun Apr 27 11:16:01 2014 No.4822780 File: 11 KB, 100x100, AREIZOO 100x100.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] THE IMAGE THAT YOU POSTED IS NOT LIFE AFFIRMING; IT IS DECAY AFFIRMING.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 11:17:52 2014 No.4822789 >>4822780 ok

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 11:27:12 2014 No.4822815 One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 11:45:32 2014 No.4822885 Easter Parade by Richard Yates if you don't mind the progatonists being women A Good School by Richard Yates if you're looking for male protagnists (though it isn't as good as Easter Parade)

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 11:48:28 2014 No.4822901 >>4822780 Life is decay.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 11:57:09 2014 No.4822931 File: 17 KB, 470x340, HURRRDURRRRR.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4822901 Ascent is falling

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 11:58:44 2014 No.4822940 >>4822765 No Longer Human. To the Lighthouse.

Anonymous Sun Apr 27 12:13:27 2014 No.4823020

>>4822815

Good, but read it.

>>4822885
Been meaning to check out Yates for sometime. What about Revolutionary Road? I always see that one mentioned.

>>4822940
No Longer Human was great but I definitely would not consider it life affirming. I have To the Lighthouse on my shelf but never got into it. I'll have to give it another try.

Good stuff, guys. Keep 'em coming.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 23:42:36 2014 No.4825336 File: 335 KB, 1027x773, feelsher.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bump

Anonymous Mon Apr 28 00:10:59 2014 No.4825434

>>4822940
No Longer Human doesn't do anything, I found it terribly pathetic. Dostoyevsky did exactly what this tried to do with Notes From Underground. It was just a self indulgent and self obsessed exercise written by someone who both holds too much value in himself and too little value in himself.

Can you offer some insight on it? I feel like I understand it too well which either means that I'm projecting or that I'm providing valid criticism.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 00:51:16 2014 No.4825519 >>4822931 Good one, schlomo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 00:55:04 2014 No.4825522 >>4822765 The Book of Disquiet

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 01:16:04 2014 No.4825577 >>4825519 >mfw this is my dad's actual name

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 01:24:08 2014 No.4825598 File: 43 KB, 335x500, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Sad but life-affirming This.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 01:26:51 2014 No.4825601 File: 28 KB, 281x450, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 01:31:47 2014 No.4825618 File: 35 KB, 304x475, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I think this could become a /lit/ favorite, like Stoner.

Anonymous Mon Apr 28 02:02:18 2014 No.4825707

>>4825522
Good, read it.

>>4825598
I don't know about Beckett. Godot seemed too abstract for me to get anything out of it and the only other thing I've tried by him was Watt which seemed super cryptic.

>>4825601
Interesting, I'll look into it.

>>4825618
I just purchased a used copy. I'm not sure why though. Every time I go for something mildly obscure hoping to find my next personal, hidden favorite it never works. The Maimed, The Tenant, Ligotti, The Golem, etc. Obscure books tend to leave me saying "interesting" after reading them but never seem to really move me.

I love the idea of finding some secret hidden novel out there but I'm starting to suspect that this is just a naive, romantic idea. I wandered for about an hour and a half in my local library today. There was so much pulp mixed in with the literature in the fiction section and I had this terrible feeling that 90% of the musty paper around me was little more than shelf filler.

I thought to myself that maybe the truth is that I'm simply being pretentious and that the books that will move me are the same ones that have always moved people: War & Peace, The Odyssey, Moby-Dick, etc.--books that have been in front of me the whole time.

Still I can't help but think in a sort of Borgesian way of the huge amount of potential experiences to be gained around me. Surely there are at least 4-5 novels out there that are perfect for me right now. Maybe they're sitting in the bottom of a shelf in some dark corner of the library and have only been checked out once or twice in ten years and have dog eared edges and some pencil markings underlining random passages from someone who may have found my book mildly enjoyable but had no idea they were holding something that would affect me so profoundly...novels that will move me to tears, state the things I know intuitively but can't put into words, reflect the people I've known and tell me where I've been and might be heading. It's probably a senseless effort to search for such books but I can't help but try.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 02:04:55 2014 No.4825711 >>4822765 >The Plague. GOAT Camus book I recommend Marguerite Duras. Try Les petits chevaux de Tarqunias or L'amant

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 02:10:17 2014 No.4825731 >>4825707 you should read the short piece "assumption" by beckett. it made me cry, I also think that robots should read it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 02:49:08 2014 No.4825812 >>4825731 Not that guy but I can't find that short story, can you help me?

>>	Feminister !!F9QVQ82MjmE Mon Apr 28 02:59:31 2014 No.4825828 File: 234 KB, 1104x1072, 1398662459304.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Try Akutagawa' or Ambrose Bierce's short stories.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 03:03:19 2014 No.4825836 File: 35 KB, 403x481, 1377468688209.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4825828 >Feminism

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 11:42:17 2014 No.4827044 Haruki Murakami's story collection "After the Quake" may be what your looking for OP.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 17:36:35 2014 No.4828049 >>4825812 it is the first piece in "the complete short prose of samuel beckett." you can probably get the ebook free from en.bookfi.org or just buy a real copy online

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 28 17:42:41 2014 No.4828064 >>4828049 by "real copy online" i don't mean "real online copy" I mean, copy made of nondigital material, that you purchase online

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 00:35:30 2014 No.4829501 after leaving mr mackenzie

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 00:36:39 2014 No.4829504 >>4822765 anna karenina

Anonymous Tue Apr 29 03:04:03 2014 No.4829903

>>4825711
Looks interesting. Never heard of her before.

>>4827044
Read it. Not bad but I don't know. Japanese authors don't tend to do a lot for me. It's never bad but it never leaves a super strong impression.

>>4829501
Added to my wishlist.

>>4829504
It's kind of embarrassing to admit but I have a copy and couldn't get into it. I love Dostoevsky and I think my subconscious brain couldn't get over the fact that I was reading a fat Russian novel and it wasn't by him.

I actually ended up getting through 200ish pages of Les Miserables despite asking for a shorter book. I'm enjoying it a lot so far.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 06:31:00 2014 No.4830481 >>4822765 that chink bz in the mirror is hot

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 06:58:49 2014 No.4830536 >>4825707 >I don't know about Beckett. lol molloy trilogy is like the best thing itt try it for real

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 10:30:49 2014 No.4830969 >>4830536 >is like the best thing lool

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 10:39:15 2014 No.4830995 I would so fuck the younger version of the asian lady in that pic. She is fucking sexy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 11:34:53 2014 No.4831142 >>4830481 >>4830536 >>4830969 >>4830995 k

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 11:37:02 2014 No.4831149 File: 1.24 MB, 512x384, guc.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4822765

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 11:42:12 2014 No.4831166 The Busconductor Hines

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 13:58:19 2014 No.4831593 >>4822765 >tfw that will be you in 50 years >tfw you will look back on life and see a pathetic human being browsing 4chan >tfw

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 29 14:12:50 2014 No.4831649 File: 16 KB, 251x400, 9781590171981.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If you like Stoner then you'll like his other book. Butcher's Crossing.

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