Hey, I have been searching for the books I describe below for a long time and with very weak victories. Hope you’ll know something.
I’m searching for literature where no one is killed, raped, has a terrible painful past or present, was physically or emotionally abused, has monstrous parents or partners or friends, no one is being manipulated, threatened, bullied etc., no one is seriously ill. No politics, economics, theme of power, no any big troubles in the world of any kind, no conflict as it’s traditionally depicted, no irritative characters. No small kids or caring about kids/elders topic. No traumatic relationships and betrayals. No evil in general, no evil machines, no evil within oneself etc. No one is fighting to survive. No social issues. No sacrifices. No moralisation. No vulgarities.
These things shouldn’t exist in the text even in the background. A nice text about a musician in the background of WW2 is a strong no.
I checked other nonviolent book requests. *Going Postal, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Perdido Street Station* aren’t what I’m looking for.
I can’t make a full list of no’s, but I hope the idea is more or less clear. I know I am cutting off a lot, but I’m sure this literature exists somewhere. The text should still have a good plot and good text quality. Also preferably not about the cosmos, but if it really fits then please mention it still. Characters who are deeply in love with each other are cool. Every character should be smart in their own way.
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If you know the text about, I dunno, guys working on a master’s paper, or a professor writing a phd in fictional architecture, or a 300-page text about the team of geographers that explore some hills where this is the content, not a background for a story about who sleeps with whom and who has the worst childhood memories.
A cool mystic realism text without the theme of blood connections and generations would be amazing.
A text about bookbinders, cartographers, researchers, about how some guys are making an encyclopedia or a botanical dictionary. Ship sailing is very welcome.
A text about weird ways of doing something? Alternative architecture all around the world or alternative internet?
Heavily magical texts are good too if they really don’t have any power/tragedy/everything-comes-with-a-price/rejection/ecological-wars/being-hired-to-do-stupid-stuff/etc theme.
Maybe you know an academic detective story? A restorer worked on an art piece and found a hidden second text in it and so on, with details.
If you by any chance know a good academic text that fits — I gladly read those too.
Thank you.
by corontario
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How about something like “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson?
Though I gotta say… your list of exclusions basically excludes “life”. Even in children’s literature you’re likely to find topics like conflict (resolution), (overcoming) grief, self-reflection (including one’s negative traits), etc.
What you’re looking for might actually be research papers or studies on non-social-science topics. Wholly scientific publications that exclude the human factor entirely. You can find them via pages like researchgate, jstor, google scholar, etc. Just type in a topic that interests you.