I'm looking for novels that insist on characters walking, preferably without a clear direction, preferably in cities...

I'm looking for novels that insist on characters walking, preferably without a clear direction, preferably in cities. I know it's one of the main point of Dostoyevsky, but I'm looking for a shorter (and, honestly, easier) read.

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Catcher in The Rye

Auster

kerouac desu

The second half of Damnation is absolutely god-tier cinema, good taste user

this^ specifically city of glass

it seems interesting. english is not my native language but I might be able to read it in english. is it "hard" to read? I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray these days and I have to admit it's quite hard sometimes.

thanks user, I agree. Bela Tarr is one of the best director who ever walked the Earth.

might consider it, thanks guys

not particularly, one of the characters speaks in a very stilted , unorthodox way which is very apparent to a native english speaker but I'm not sure how it would seem to someone less familiar with the language, you'll probably be fine

>Bela Tarr is one of the best director who ever walked the Earth.

Then naturally I suggest you check out Krasznahorkai, he wrote all Tarr's films from Damnation onwards

thanks a lot user, downloading it right now for my kindle

I actually thought about it but I think the french translations are very expensive, and I'm a poorfag.

Take up loaning from libraries and spend the money you save on food
My life quality has risen much and I've felt so much better ever since I started doing this

Bon chance, je vais dormir maintenant, c'est tard!

bonne* and il est*, french is a weird language.

Sleep well kind user

henry miller - tropic of cancer

>I'm looking for novels that insist on characters walking, preferably without a clear direction.

Lord of the Rings

Death in Venice by Mann

kek

Berlin Alexanderplatz, by Doblin.


Not short, but not difficult imo.

>no one posts Ulysses yet

journey by moonlight by antal szerb

Ulysses

Hunger by Hamsun is precisely what you want.

Robert walser, the walk

This, the #1 city walking novel

Open city.

seconded

Taipei desu
Shit book. All they do is wander haphazardly throughout various locales doing nothing so it's right up your alley.

Dangling Man - Bellow

This OP, look no further

so many books in the meme list fit this description

is traveling without direction some sort of story building technique? Or is because Veeky Forumszens can relate to this?

Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald. Walking by Thomas Bernhard.

Many of Frank O'Hara's poems (especially Lunch Poems) are about walking around. For instance, Steps:

How funny you are today New York
like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime
and St. Bridget’s steeple leaning a little to the left

here I have just jumped out of a bed full of V-days
(I got tired of D-days) and blue you there still
accepts me foolish and free
all I want is a room up there
and you in it
and even the traffic halt so thick is a way
for people to rub up against each other
and when their surgical appliances lock
they stay together
for the rest of the day (what a day)
I go by to check a slide and I say
that painting’s not so blue

where’s Lana Turner
she’s out eating
and Garbo’s backstage at the Met
everyone’s taking their coat off
so they can show a rib-cage to the rib-watchers
and the park’s full of dancers with their tights and shoes
in little bags
who are often mistaken for worker-outers at the West Side Y
why not
the Pittsburgh Pirates shout because they won
and in a sense we’re all winning
we’re alive

the apartment was vacated by a gay couple
who moved to the country for fun
they moved a day too soon
even the stabbings are helping the population explosion
though in the wrong country
and all those liars have left the UN
the Seagram Building’s no longer rivalled in interest
not that we need liquor (we just like it)

and the little box is out on the sidewalk
next to the delicatessen
so the old man can sit on it and drink beer
and get knocked off it by his wife later in the day
while the sun is still shining

oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke too many cigarettes
and love you so much

look up flâneur

The fall

Aylak Adam (The Loiterer) by Yusuf Atılgan, although I read it in Dutch. I'm not sure if there's an English version available, tbqh.

Nausea and Age of Reason by Sartre

>ctrl+f "hunger"

good man

lots of stuff by murakami.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flâneur