What's the most depressive, dreary, dark and heavy book you ever read?
Young Torless
Therese Raquin
The Rape of Nanking
>>7724263
Nausea
Bukowski- Ham on Rye
>>7724277
How was that?
Notes
I know that it's meme but damn
>>7724495
It's quite biased in tone (it's clearly not the usual "historic non-fiction" with a scientific tone), harrowing read
>>7724263
My diary
>>7725927
d-desu
>>7724264
You're retarded.
The Idiot
White Nights
jude the obscure
>>7724488
this. I didn't felt it depressing until I finished it. I guess I was too sucked up in the events.
The Particular Sadness Of Lemon Cake hit me hard too
Night by elie weasel, it was a truly insightful read into the evil of nationalism
The Collector by John Fowles, two different perspectives still depressing as fuck.
1984
Flowers For Algernon was pretty fucked up.
Fucking Virgin Suicides.
>>7724264
You're a fucking cancerous faggot.
It's a shit-tier book.
>>7726481
wasn't *that* depressing
least he got to fug a qt
the mind games were fucked up but it could have easily been worse
>>7724263
The Book Of Disquiet
>>7726583
yup. Hell of a book
>>7726477
>>7726579
>least he got to fug a qt
You mean the old rotten prostitute or the young lass?
>>7726583
yeah, that's pretty fucked up.
>>7724263
Under the Volcano.
Journey to the end of the night
>>7726583
What's it about? The wikipedia page is very vague. The "quotes" on goodreads are accurate. Is the translation just the one or are there several?
The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
It is a dreary truth that will drench you to the bone.
>>7726583
>tfw when im brazilian and read Pessoa at all his greatness
anything jelinek t.bh
what's wrong with that broad (and austrians in general)?
>>7726694
No one cares huehue
>>7726499
Sofia's film was fantastic
>that prime Dunst
>>7726806
U jelly nigger?
>>7728324
Brazilian calling other people niggs.
Kek
Journey to the End of the Night
>>7728360
I'm white
>>7724263
>>7728366
what? that book is funny as fuck
The Trial made me really uncomfortable and depressed, I couldn't read more than 50 pages of it per day.
>>7728666
I thought it was pretty funny.
>>7726302
Lol, no.
>>7728560
Yeah Brazilian white people and honest Jews my favorite type of people
>>7729114
how about honest brazilian jews?
>>7729530
>>7728666
i couldn't finish The Castle
it's just too much
Abaddon el exterminador by Ernesto Sabato. My favorite novel, and the only true answer here.
El túnel, by the same author, is breddy despairing too, and more famous around these parts.
The Holy Bible
>>7726694
>thinking it makes up for being a hue for life
>>7726506
please kill yourself
>>7724503
It's a meme for a reason
>>7726477
>there's a chance this isn't bait
>pain
Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Dreary and depressive in particular. Also incredible.
>>7726687
Not to be a Camus-sperg, but that essay changed my life.
You gotta love the suck.
It didn't happen just from any single book, but the aggregate feels from several Hesse books in a row was devestating. It was several years ago but I think it was the combination of Steppenwolf, followed by Demian, Narcissus and Goldmund, and finally Beneath the Wheel (that last one in particular is actually pretty depressing on its own) that had me in a bad way. I highly recommend all of those works, but just not back-to-back like that.
