Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming
Le Rivage des Syrtes

Thomas Bernhard:
The Lime Works
Walking
Frost

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The Gospel of Matthew
I'm also gonna suggest On the Road by Jack Kerouac despite the ending, cause it's just so full of vitality and energy, and from a much better time too. Add to this The Dharma Bums.

pretty obvious selection but all good:

Sartre's 'Nausea'
>jaded bachelor has a crisis and doubts the legitimacy and very existence of the outside world despite living an eventful life filled with travel and affairs
Hesse's 'Steppenwolf'
>middle-aged misanthrope struggles to reconcile the part of him that yearns for bourgeois comfort and the part of him that demands wildness and solitude
T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'
>relatively short poem that you can read right now, snippet:
> For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
Any of the short story collections of Robert Aickman
>perhaps an usual choice being short weird fiction, but Aickman's protagonists are often slightly aged, slightly out of place men who's world-weariness collides with bizarre situations
McCarthy's 'Suttree'
>outcast from a wealthy family faces barely relenting suffering, nonetheless beautiful prose
Celine's 'Journey to the End of the Night'
>"The fact is that when you're at war you say peace will be better, you bite into that hope as if it were a chocolate bar, but it's only shit after all. You don't dare say so at first for fear of making people mad. You try to be nice. When you're good and sick of wallowing in muck you speak up. Then everybody thinks you were raised in a barn."
Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and 'Macbeth'
>Both Prince Hamlet and Macbeth are great examples of world-disgust
Rilke's 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge'
>hard to explain other than to say it's the autobiography of a deeply sensitive man