Are there any female authors who write in the style of Dostoevski? His bleakness, ugly realism, characters who are self-loathing, etc.
I'm tired of reading about porcelain dolls with love issues. I want existentialist angst and period blood grossness.
>>7896213
Plath?
>>7896213
Oh Patricia Highsmith
Flannery O'Connor maybe
Anna Kavan, maybe…?
>>7896213
Literally every European writer that came after Dostoievsky, look harder.
>>7896213
I am highly interested in this as well
Doris Lessing might be worth looking into, desu senpai.
>>7896213
Those slippers are fucking ugly. I'd rather see her bare feet, if you know what I mean.
>>7896223
>not the biggest porcelain doll with love issues ever
I read her as a depressed 14 yo and turned melancholic from feeling so alienated even from someone who was supposed to be greater than the trivialities
Her suicide doesn't justify shit
>>7896255
You mean like this?
>>7896239
Where do I start?
>>7896242
But I'm American. I don't wanna study SHIT, I don't wanna do SHIT. I don't wanna look up JACK FUCKING SHIT for myself.
DFW is best writer ever, so said 4chan and my teacher
>>7896280
Yes, that is what I meant. Looks way more aesthetically pleasing to me.
>>7896300
kek
>>7896262
They're not mutually exclusive man. Having love issues is a part of being a grill, she still has gross menstrual shit and existential angst
>>7896213
sauce on this tramp
>>7896248
Good rec
Tess Hadley
Alice munro is bleak as fuck, checkhov vibe, mostly women
>>7896395
She has a 14 yo girl's version of existentialist angst. I know, because I was a 15 yo girl with existentialist angst when I read her the first time.
>>7896406
https://www.flickr.com/photos/peopleofplatt/albums/72157624572361792
Ann Quinn
Eva Figes
>>7896213
Flannery O'Connor writes truly disgusting characters, reading her made me physically feel revulsion.
Mods should ban everyone that start a thread with pics of beautiful women.
Minna Canth.
>>7896433
This is a good recommendation. She's not as digressive and 'philosophical' as dosti, but she'll fit thw bill, I reckons.