Need depressing books. Definitely not depressed, just like them.
Finished Book of Disquiet today and am looking for more like it, it was fucking amazing. Patrician tier prose
>>7475774
what are the best ones from that list?
>>7475790
any of the Russians, all the continentals
The Maimed
Norwegian wood
>>7475768
Read Your Own Diary Nigga Hahahah
Would anyone recommend Beckett?
Do you like plays? If so:
Ivanov - Chekhov
King Lear - Shakespeare
>>7475768
Highly recommend No Longer Human
Kafka's Trial
>>7475790
Celine (vulgar depressive)
Cioran (aphoristic and pessimistic)
Kawabata (romantically depressive)
Kane (a play about depression by a depressed author who commited suicide shortly afterwards)
>>7476677
Yeah Waiting for Godot is great
To read something with so much absence feels so familiar and welcome
>>7476677
people will tell you to read his plays but read his novels
the Malone Trilogy, his short stories, and Watt are fucking LEGENDARY
>>7476677
molloy, watt, unnameable, and malone
endgame, play, and godot are the important plays but the novels are better if you're not super into theater
his correspondence is also cool
Kolyma Tales
This way to the gas ladies and gentlemen
