Got any recommendations? It should preferably be the main or one of the main characters.
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Anonymous2006-07-25 16:51
Journey to the End of the Night
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Anonymous2006-07-25 23:24
The Bible
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Anonymous2006-07-26 19:59
Catch 22
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Catcher in the Rye
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Anonymous2006-07-29 3:01
the sorrows of young werther by goethe
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Anonymous2006-07-29 13:02
Ecce Homo
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Anonymous2006-07-29 13:59
Quo Vadis!
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Anonymous2006-08-05 4:02
The Bell Jar
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Anonymous2006-08-05 15:52
Huxley (Crome Yellow)
Nabokov (Bend Sinister)
Sartre (Age of Reason)
Turgenev (Rudin)
Beckett (Murphy)
Salinger (Franny)
Camus (A Happy Death)
Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury, Part 2, Quentin)
The Awakening (Chopin)
Many of their other books also qualify. Thanks for making this thread, too, I love depression literature, it's all I read. >>5 is a must-read. As with >>8: many feminist authors are good too, like Woolf, Chopin, and Perkins. They all seem to want to die in the end.
Woolfe is exquisite for the purposes, and if you can dig the subtext, Kafka is quite emo as well
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Anonymous2006-08-31 0:59
>>9
yes, turgenev is absolutely wonderful at making characters that are down on themselves, self loathing, manic..
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Anonymous2006-08-31 19:10
Anything by Stephen R. Donaldson. (Well I've only read the first few books of his various Leprosy Chronicles series, but that makes up a good portion of his published works.)
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Anonymous2006-09-06 22:45
Lord Sepulchrave in the Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake.