we had a talk the other day but never made a definitive list. add some and if there are enough, we can make a chart.
>the stranger
>amsterdam stories
>sun also rises
>hindoo holiday
>a way of life, like any other
>this side of paradise
>nausea
>notes from underground
>steppenwolf
>berlin stories
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>siddhartha (kind of)
>catcher in the rye
>A hero of our time (kind of)
>No longer human (kind of)
>crime and punishment (although not really apathetic)
Hunger by Hamsun is literally the quintessential "apathetic man walking around" - book.
It's also sardonically funny.
you cant win - jack black
nyrb classics has a real fetish for these types of books in my experience
The Black Book, Pamuk
the glass bead game
Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque. The situation for three young men in the Weimar Republic, there is a lot of parallels to today's society
"the sound and the fury" by hemmmmingway - for the quentin bits
Black is anything but apathetic.
Oblomov.
Rilke's novel- Notebook of some cockamamie Viking name
Van Goghs letters to Theo
Are you kidding me? Rilke is the complete opposite of apathy.
read this around new years, freezing out.. Good book
Ask the dust by John Fante, it inspired Bukowski the most he said.
rum diary
Zeno's Conscience
>oblomov
>walk
Boi doesn't get out of bed for half of it
I remember The Sun Also Rises. When I finished it I was like, wait that's it? Nothing really happens. There's no tension, no climax, no denouement
Hunger by Hamsun
The Trial to an extent
crimes and punishment
totally about apathetic dudes just walking around
Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter
Fits in perfectly. NYRB. Great little book, especially if you're looking for something in this catagorey. Little more "plot" than a few of the books people have mentioned, though.
Like I said in the last thread, Un homme qui dort by Georges Perec is the definition of this. Unlike all the others, nothing else happens except walking around.
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>no tension
>TSAR
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The Book of Disquiet is the best book in the general.
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.
This one... more than anything else...
Aylak Adam is a Turkish novel that's a pretty stereotypical example of this trope. It's a good summer read. Don't think there are any English translations though. I read it in Dutch (translated as De Lanterfanter)
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.
Some user recommended it to me a long time ago. Thanks, user.
Agree
Fuck off Hard Rain Falling is full of rough dudes doing rough shit. There's nothing literary about that.
Steppenwolf
Tropic of Cancer
Walter Benjamin had some essay about The Flanuer. Can't remember which book though. Arcades maybe?
the one im writing
