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I'm looking for books like Maldoror, American Psycho, 120 Days of Sodom, Teatro Grottesco, The Trial, and so on. Not that easy shock-horror stuff. I prefer it when every sentence is loaded: so naturally Maldoror is my most favourite so far.

Any help, /lit/?

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>> No.5274497

torture garden

>> No.5274505

Why do you consider those books pessimistic? They're edgy, but I don't see how they're pessimistic.

>> No.5274524

>>5274505

How in the fuck is the trial edgy? Seeing this word bastardzied so much on here makes me want to wish it out of existence.

>> No.5274528

>>5274524
Edgy lost its meaning a week after people started saying it you hipster

>> No.5274537

>>5274524
Well the trial isn't necessarily, it's about unpleasant things happening to a guy. 120 Days is about a bunch of degenerates having fun at other people's expense. American Psyco is about a psycho yuppie's violent fantasies.

How is this related to pessimism?

>> No.5274553

the trial seemed like a life-affirming optimistic novel to me
am I retarded?

>> No.5274558

>>5274553
Are you employed by the government?

>> No.5274577

>>5274400
McCarthy's work. In the very end, they're kinda not pessimistic (you gotta carry the fire) but he sure knows how to make bleak, oppressive worlds. "No Country For Old Men" gets pretty intense in the "No Hope" sense at the end, and that's probably his most "accessible" work, so...

>> No.5274582

>>5274577
>they're kinda not pessimistic (you gotta carry the fire)
That's The Road though. A love letter to his son.

>> No.5274593

>>5274582
Also, "No Country" (Bell's wife making his life worth it) or "The Sunset Limited" (Black's view). Even the Judge in "Meridian" is kind of this (he transcending the bleakness and horror of universe)

>> No.5274596

Chevengur, Tomb for 500000 Soldiers, Cioran oeuvre.

>> No.5274678

>>5274400
>Hamsun - Hunger
>Celine - Journey to the end of the Night
>Bataille - Blue of Noon
>Lampedusa - The Leopard

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5274699

>>5274400

>Any help, /lit/?

This happy camper right here.

>> No.5274707

>>5274400
What do you mean by pessimism?

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5274923

>>5274707
>>5274537
OP here
Sorry, I didn't mean to say that this kind of literature is pessimistic - it seems to be the kind of writing a pessimist might enjoy, though. The kindof angst-ridden, immoral, guilty, lethargic, nihilistic behaviour that is aware of itself (hopefully becoming meaningful, unlike most "horror" thrills.)

I suppose we could for now call it philosophical horror or conceptual horror?

Actually, I've not read Hunter S. Thompson. Should I check it out?