Hey /lit/,
I need some short, depressing reads.
What are your favorite short novels/novellas that deal with death, loneliness or related subjects?
Anything under 300 pages goes.
Why short? Are you a pleb?
>>7713080
The Lime Twig's definitely a must-read.
>>7713080
The Book of Disquiet
>>7713084
I really don't have that much time for reading right now.
You're right though, I am a pleb and enjoy reading short books.
>>7713093
Gassposter, don't try and hide behind Hawkes
>>7713095
This almost done with this shit show.
>>7713080
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams by Handke, be ready to call your mom.
>>7713121
I would totally read that but the cover art for the original German version is just so atrociously ugly that I'm not going to spend 9€ on it. I mean, damn.
Metamorphosis
stoner
Hunger
'Boule de Suif' features a lot of people, but demonstrates loneliness more than any other short story I know.
Flannery O'Connor is a good bet for this as well, try "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
>>7713114
But it's a serious recommendation. The Lime Twig is just what he is looking for.
>>7713219
Also, 'Bartleby the Scrivener,' Melville.
This should have been the first post, actually.
>Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!
>>7713143
The book is in every used book store.
>>7713321
Raymond Carver much?
Well it's more than 300 pages but journey to the end of the night is all about that
>>7713080
Since you apparently speak German, I’d also recommend:
„Einer“ by Norbert Gstrein (reads a bit like a very sad Faulkner)
„Wittgensteins Neffe“ by Thomas Bernhard („Zweihundert Freunde werden bei meinem Begräbnis sein und du mußt an meinem Grab eine Rede halten.“)
>>7713080
notes from the underground?
>>7713121
Lol, it's depressing but so detached.
he's just like, and my mom was poor and things were awful and she's dead now. oh well.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Ask the Dust
An Appointment in Samarra
Mrs. Dalloway
No Longer Human
Play it as it Lays
The Good Soldier
Tokyo Doesn't Love us Anymore
Giovanni's Room
the stranger
Of mice and men
Catcher in the rye
>>7713084
Haha! Pleb! Thanks, boy-o! I'm screenshotting this for r/books!
-a poster who came here from the /lit/ top 100 chart
Anybody here read "Good Morning, Midnight" by Jean Rhys?
I heard Tao Lin mention it a bunch of times and read it but I found it underwhelming. It had some good points and maybe I'm too conservative with regards to form but overall I found it pretty bad.
Texhnolyze was shit
>>7713095
Thats not ar all short come on
