I like Hermann Hesse especially Steppenwolf, Osamu Dazai, When Nietzsche Wept, Nausea, The Bell Jar, Camus ofc… I need some melancholic middle-length depressive books with lonely people in it.
“I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman is a novel about hopelessness, absurdity, and the impulse to remain human in the face of such things.
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Love more of these books as well! 🙂 have you ever read Anna Karenina by Tolstoy?
Havoc by Tom Kristensen would likely also be of interest.
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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Last week when asked about On Swift Horses I described it as a melancholy book, mainly about two somewhat lost characters stumbling around mid-century south western US trying to find-themselves. Soon to be a major motion picture.
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How about The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I read it about two weeks ago. Very gripping, very sad. And it’s not a clever name, as you’ll discover in the first several pages.
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“I Who Have Never Known Men” by Jacqueline Harpman is a novel about hopelessness, absurdity, and the impulse to remain human in the face of such things.
Love more of these books as well! 🙂 have you ever read Anna Karenina by Tolstoy?
Havoc by Tom Kristensen would likely also be of interest.
Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Last week when asked about On Swift Horses I described it as a melancholy book, mainly about two somewhat lost characters stumbling around mid-century south western US trying to find-themselves. Soon to be a major motion picture.
How about The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides. I read it about two weeks ago. Very gripping, very sad. And it’s not a clever name, as you’ll discover in the first several pages.
Georges Rodenbach, *Bruges-la-Morte*.