>>25231337
Pierre; or, the Ambiguities
Portrait of a Lady
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Remembrance of Things Past

>>25231337
Ew is that Anne Frank?

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Unironically.

>>25231555
Great prose stylist, but not someone I'd think of when hearing "artsty, aesthetic".
>In one of his few interviews, McCarthy revealed that he respected only authors who "deal with issues of life and death", citing Henry James and Marcel Proust as examples of writers who do not. "I don't understand them ... To me, that's not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange", he said.

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>>25231337
if i was a tv production designer stocking the shelf of a self-consciously artsy student, it would be:
>Sweet Days of Discipline (Jaeggy)
>Hebdomeros (De Chirico)
>Illuminations (Rimbaud)
>Anecdotes (Kleist)
>A Barbarian in Asia (Michaux)
>The Plumed Serpent (Lawrence)
>Blue of Noon (Bataille)
>Hyperion (Holderlin)
>Supermale (Jarry)
>In the American Grain (Williams)
>The Thief's Journal (Genet)
>Double Heart (Schwob)
which are all actually good books as well as being SuperCool

>>25231337
Wilde, James, Proust, and the great master, Flaubert

>>25231337
The Portrait of Dorian Grey

>>25231573
That's because you're retarded

>>25231573
McCarthy is an aesthete through and through. Without the aesthetic, his books won't even hold up as decent novels.

>>25231712
>>25231721
If you can't see the difference in tone between:
>A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoons, frogged and braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear or cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of bull or buffalo and one in a pigeontailed coat worn backwards and otherwise naked and one in the armor of a Spanish conquistador, the breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses' ears and tails worked with bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse's whole head was painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of Christian reckoning, screeching and yammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools.
And:
>Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do,—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour.
Then YOU are retarded.

>>25231734
An aesthete doesn't have to be a limpwristed faggot like youself, fag. Lautreamont was also edgy, but he was an aesthete as well

i blame op for not clarifying what they were after

>>25231754
I love Corncob. In fact, I like him more than any other author mentioned ITT other than Melville, Joyce and Rimbaud, but he's not what OP was asking for.

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A Rebours

>>25231783
Doesn't change the fact that you don't know what you're saying

Donna Tartt seems more your speed