Can anyone recommend some novels that deal with deterioration of mental state, social isolation, loneliness, paranoia, lack of self-worth, pressure from society, etc?
I've read most of Kafka and recently read Büchner's Lenz, which I loved, and need more like it!
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Read Crime and Punishment senpai.
JG Ballard's Drowned World kinda
Oh, good Lord, this is rich. Stop making shit threads and start critiquing good stuff like
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my diary desu
The Bell Jar or ANY hubert selby jr novel
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Last Exit to Brooklyn (novel, 1964)
The Room (novel, 1971)
The Demon (novel, 1976)
Requiem for a Dream (novel, 1978)
Song of the Silent Snow (short stories, 1986)[7]
The Willow Tree (novel, 1998)
Waiting Period (novel, 2002)
Thanks for these recommendations guys.
Hunger by Hamsun
Are you me?
Last Exit to Brooklyn is so fucking good. That chapter where the gay wants to chill with the drag queens is all sortsa what the fuck
Confederacy of Dunces.
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
Your autobiography
What books would you recommend, OP?
Also interested in what you listed.
El Tunel by Sabato
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Ahh, this has me tickled m8.
welcome to the NHK
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>deterioration of mental state, social isolation, loneliness, paranoia
gravitys rainbow
Oh God, my God. Why have you abandoned me?
"The Myth of Sisyphus" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" by Albert Camus
"The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Geothe.
Maybe, these two aren't a kinda books with the atmosphere u asked for, but you probably can find something, if you read "Idiot" by Dostoevsky, for example
Extension of the Battlefield and The Elementary Particles by Houellebecq
Your writing is shit
I got Requiem for a Dream for Christmas
But I've yet to read it. Have you read it? Is it good? I love the movie, but I've never read any Selby.
yeah your writing is shit unfortunately
Notes from Underground is the most honest fucking portrayal of loneliness I've ever seen. And it's a really great philosophical read too, but besides that, Dosto's narration captures perfectly that feeling of how repulsive a person can become when they have cut human contact.
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The Long Walk
Inferno by August Strindberg. Great novel, similar feel to Hunger which was recomended earlier.