This genre should die a dog's death
>>25246260eh, I generally do like some kind of growth but when a story ends with "then everyone was happy" I'm rolling my damn eyes
>>25246260>and we laugh at them >the picaresque
>>25246260examples of that?
>>25246281StonerA Little Life
>>25246281my autobiography
>>25246289Wait stoner isnt that miserable
>>25246295The reader is while reading it tho.
>>25246260That would be keeping with the theme, wouldn't it?>>25246281Kind of the core concept behind "Don't play God" science fiction.
>>25246260That's the subtitleThe main title is "Being a Woman"
>>25246306Kek
>>25246272Such traditions should die a dog's death!
>>25246260The novel? I agree. Bring back epic poetry, plays, satires and romances.
>>25246403Especially romances
>>25246281What flavour of wretched misery were you after?JEWISH— Franz Kafka, everything he wrote, pretty much— Harold Pinter, everything he wrote, pretty much (yes, he's exclusively a playwright, but /lit/ needs to learn there is more to life than novels)— Joseph Heller, Something Happened (the quintessential "Miserable characters being miserable and never changing" novel)IRISH— Samuel Beckett, everything he wrote, pretty much (but Irish whining is, on the whole, less annoying than Jewish whining.)ENGLISH— Thomas Hardy, Jude The Obscure (plus a lot of other stuff. TH really has it in for his characters. If they survive their horses getting impaled by mail-coaches, their haystacks catching fire, their sheepdogs slaughtering their sheep, their children hanging themselves, their landlords seducing them, their lovers abandoning them and their husbands auctioning them off for booze money, he'll generally drop a tree on them in the last chapter.)— Graham Greene, The End Of The Affair (plus lots of other stuff.)AMERICAN— Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit To Brooklyn, etc.XX-CHROMOSOME— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (SYNOPSIS: "Despite the whole world basically being organized for her benefit, narrator is far too miserable to spare a single second's thought for anyone who might actually have, you know, legitimate reasons for misery.")POETRY— A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad ("oh woe, oh woe, we will soon all be dead, so let us act as if we were dead already", or however it was Pound expressed it)These are just the first things I thought of. Go back through the 20th century and you'll find truckloads of lesser stuff fitting OP's template. All ferociously praised at the time; all now utterly forgotten. And quite right too.
>>25246403Especially epic poetry, the highest form of literature.
>>25246260Schlop Schlop SchlopIch schlopp dich weg und fäll dein Holz. We all love pointless whining from our friend from Vienna. Do you hate him too?
>>25246260Don't you want relatable characters in fiction?
>>25246797I’m a happy boy anon :)
>>25246793>Do you hate him too?Obviously if I ever thought about him I would do. But there are so few hours in the day, and so many poisonous shabbos goys who haven't died yet. Gimme a break.
>>25246260>Miserable characters being miserable and never changingI know a lot of people like this.
>>25246775I'd file Richey Edwards under poetry tooTHE WEAK KICK LIKE STRAWTIL THE WORLD MEANS LESS AND LESSWORDS ARE NEVER ENOUGHJUST CHEAP TARNISHED GLITTER
or, My Diary Desu
>>25246820So do I but it gets to a point.
>>25246281one half of Anna Karenina
>>25246775A. E. Housman wasn't miserable out of boredom, he was miserable because he was gay (illegal at the time) and lonely. A posthumous essay by his brother reveals how anxious he was to meet someone who could understand him.
>>25246260>Miserable characters being miserable and never changing Sooo... Real life?
>>25247034Who wants real life in fiction? Just go out and look
>>25247134I think /tv/ is more your speed, kiddo.
>>25246281Infinite Jest
>>25246281no longer human
