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Books where the main character is degenerate, depraved, insane, etc?
My diary.
so my novel is about a misunderstand intelect who writes for a living. he's a virgin and finds an escort who not only takes his virginity but also falls in love with him. its also really witty
anything by dostoyevsky
SABBATH'S THEATER
Stavrogin hehe (was it rape?)
OP try reading "Gilles & Jeanne" by Michel Tournier. It's about Gilles de Rais who turned insane after the death of his lover Jeanne d'Arc. Fucking pedo psychopath. Worth reading. Both on libgen and openlibrary.
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Gilles de Rais is mentioned quite a bit in Huysmans La Bas, isn't he?. Interesting character, more exciting than de Sade.
>>Stavrogin hehe (was it rape?)
>tfw read a translation without the Tikhon chapter
>tfw didn't realise it until years after
feels bad man, but now i can have the pleasure to read it again
Already read Dosty my friend - C&P, TBK, Demons and Notes.
>main character is degenerate, depraved, insane
Isn’t that the case for most literature?
Anyways, a few especially noteworthy picks that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Hamsun: Hunger
Houellebecq: Whatever, Atomized &c.
Plath: The Bell Jar
Céline: Journey to the End of Night &c.
Handke: The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty
Kracht: 1979
Also there are a few "Madman’s Diary" texts, notably Gogol and Lu Xun each wrote one.
Book is called "The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" in English apparently.
Another nice book I just though of is "Almost Transparent Blue" -- it features (bi) sex orgies, heroin dependency and excessive violence. It also features a very well written psychedelics trips.
Maybe it's time to read The Idiot.
you can also read the gambler in a few hours
the story of the eye, the ending is shit but the travel to get there is very nice
The Double is purely about going insane
What Happened: Hillay Rodham Clinton
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Literally all books by Bret Easton Ellis
Lolita
I'd say Naked Lunch satisfies the whole criteria. Violent orgies, a narrator with a tenuous hold on reality, heroin use, pederasty, addictive life-prolonging semen solution, sexual mind-control experimentation.
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The Repairer of Reputations does this pretty well. Lolita and Pale Fire obviously.
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American Psycho
Confederation of Dunces
Sounds like that fag from /r9gay/ who slept with a sex worker and started dating her.
Into the Night
And the Ass Saw the Angel
Can't think of a better example than Moravagine. He's the most terrifying kind of madman.
F&LINLF
also stop being edgy