Suicide

[Anonymous No.7995341]

What novels have suicide in them? How do different authors deal with the topic? What's your favourite way the topic is dealt with?

[Anonymous No.7995358]

the quintessential suicide novel would probably be Werther

[Anonymous No.7995375]

It really depends on what you're looking for. If you're just beginning to look into the subject, I think you should start by reading the book Notes on Suicide by Simon Critchley because he explains a number of different perspectives on suicide ranging from Christian to Buddhist to Philosophical and everything in between and lays out each of their arguments thoroughly so you can come to a conclusion on your own.

Personally, I like the writing of Camus on the subject, starting with Myth of Sisyphus and then reading his novels (especially The Fall and The Outsider). Quite a few great writers on suicide are in pic related and I definitely suggest reading Cioran, Miller, and Williams.

[Anonymous No.7995386]

I love Frobisher in Cloud Atlas. I am a big fan of Cloud Atlas and I herald it as a masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.7995461]

>>7995358
too bad goethe didn't emulate the protagonist

[Anonymous No.7995468]

>>7995461
too bad you don't emulate goethe

[Anonymous No.7995469]

>>7995386
nobody heralds anymore. heartwarming to see

[Anonymous No.7995481]

>>7995469
I am trying to rejuvenate the act for our postmodern culture. One heralded literary work at a time.

[Anonymous No.7995500]

Is The Virgin Suicides good? I want post-postmodern literature.

[Anonymous No.7995518]

>>7995500
It was okay, nothing amazing.

[Anonymous No.7995715]

>>7995500
It is good but Middlesex is so much better.

[Anonymous No.7996325]

>>7995341
The Sound and the Fury
Mysteries
Pan
The Devils
Jude the Obscure
Lie Down in Darkness
Another Country
Anna Karenina
Madame Bovary

[Anonymous No.7996336]

>>7995341
Can a Christian committing suicide be considered him saying fuck you to God? Or does it not have to be like that in different cases?

[Anonymous No.7996342]

>>7995341
The Pale King

There's a suicide as soon as the novel picks up pace.

[Anonymous No.7996344]

>>7996325
Whoops I forgot The Name of the Rose

[Anonymous No.7996346]

>>7996336
Did Jesus commit suicide?

[Anonymous No.7996348]

Coming Through Slaughter
Unbearable Lightness of Being
Fahrenheit 451
Things Fall Apart

[Anonymous No.7996359]

>>7996346
The question popped up when I heard of a summary of a retelling of the book of Job. The story's Job character is told by his friends to curse god and commit suicide. And in the book of Job it is said that it is God's choice to take a life away, not the one who has the life. But does it have to be that case in every instance of suicide?

[Anonymous No.7996366]

>>7996359
Sorry, is committing suicide is a form of cursing god in every instance of suicide.

[Anonymous No.7996378]

Were Mersault's choices an act of suicide?

[Anonymous No.7996604]

>>7995500
I loved it. but I totally identified with the group of boys. I was always secretly in love with some girl.

[Anonyrnous No.7996625]

>>7996366

The general, reasonable stance on this within the faith is that it (usually) reflects internal torment or mental illness and not an act of sin/rebellion against God. This is how I've always heard the discussion lead in a fairly conservative Christian body, and more moderate bodies would lean this way even moreso.

[Anonymous No.7996745]

>>7996625
Yeah the reasonable stance is something like "Wow, they must have really been in pain to want to end their existence" rather than the doctrinaire "Lol... they sinned against hope... unforgivable sin (according to my theories at least)"

[Anonymous No.7996754]

>>7996325
wow fuckin spoiler alert

[Anonymous No.7997502]

>>7995461
What's wrong with Goethe?

[Anonymous No.7997524]

>>7995500
The concept was really good, with the point of view being spying neighbors. The execution was pretty bland.

[Anonymous No.7998592]

>>7996346
Suicide by Rabbi/Roman.

[Anonymous No.7998600]

Wuthering Heights
Bleak House