Hi. Exactly as I said I’d like to know if anyone has any good recommendations that are similar to these books (but honestly I also like exploring so anything that might be very much the opposite of these is also welcome- or anything at all really):
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- Rashomon by Akutagawa Ryunosuke
- Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
- The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
- Nevsky Prospekt by Nikolai Gogol
- A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
- Knife: Meditations on an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- And Then by Natsume Soseki
- A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oe
I say books but short stories and poems are nice too! Thank you. 🙂
by nikolai0417
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Try the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake. Very well written classic.
The Stranger by Albert Camus is a philosophical modern classic that mostly focuses on absurdism (and existentialism) that you may enjoy based off of Sartre and Dostoevsky being on the top of this list.
If you’re looking for something a bit longer, try The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov! Another modern classic with themes of absurdism.
I would also recommend The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector. She’s a little less philosophical, but she’s translated from Portuguese (though all these authors are translated), has very interesting prose, and also focuses on philosophical elements in this book.