I'm depressed and lonely. What do I read that captures the absurd yet beautiful tragedy of human existence? No Camus, Dostoevsky, Kafka, etc.
Ernesto Sabato, on heros and tombs.
>>23546995Death of a SalesmanHarrison BergeronNightfall by Isaac Asimov Any book on symbolic logic will make you angry with the world
>>23546995Eugene Onegin
>>23546995I'm not recommending you shit, I want you to be happy
Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
>>23546995The Sound and the FuryHeart of DarknessJourney to the End of the NightMacbeth2666The Melancholy of Resistance
>>23547010my secret is that the aesthetic alchemy will make me happy
Solaris by Stanisław LemThe Road by Cormac McCarthyO Cortiço by Aluísio Azevedo
Mishima unironically
>>23546995Atomized by Michel Houellebecq.Snapped me out of a pretty severely anhedonic funk recently.
>>23546995A Short History of Decay - E.M. Cioran
>>23546995I'm lonely and miserable too, anon. Remember you have fellow sufferers, even if you're not aware of them.I want to give someone a hug. Someone who really wants me to give one to them.
>>23547336>Atomized by Michel HouellebecqI'm halfway through and struggling to get into it. I like the way he writes but the story and characters aren't really doing it for me. Is it worth pushing through to the end?
>>23546995A Farewell to Arms is a real gut punch
>>23546995The conspiracy against the human race by Thomas Ligotti.https://archive.org/details/conspiracyagains0000thom/mode/2up
>>23546995Death of Ivan Ilyich by TolstoyFathers and Sons by TurgenevIn the Ravine by ChekhovWard no 6 by ChekhovOblomov by GoncharovGerminal by ZolaL'assommoir by ZolaMayor of Casterbridge by HardyMy favourite is Oblomov, won't spoil anything but it gets pretty sad.
