What are some good novels that go into detail about human misery?

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2016-05-21 01:51:11 Post No. 8064663
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 01:51:11 Post No. 8064663 [Report]

What are some good novels that go into detail about human misery? Extreme hunger, torture, poverty, etc.

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Hunger:

Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Poverty:

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Torture:

1984 by George Orwell
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernières

Anonymous 2016-05-21 02:53:37 Post No.8064858
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>>8064735
Thank you very much.

Anonymous 2016-05-21 10:31:43 Post No.8065650
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 10:31:43 Post No.8065650 [Report]

>>8064663
my diary desu lad

Anonymous 2016-05-21 13:13:02 Post No.8065911
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 13:13:02 Post No.8065911 [Report]

120 Days of Sodom, duhhhhh

Anonymous 2016-05-21 13:30:32 Post No.8065938
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Anonymous 2016-05-21 13:30:32 Post No.8065938 [Report]

>>8064663
Not a novel but the Death of Ivan Illych by Leo Tolstoy was pretty gruesome. I've heard that doctors who read the story say it's pretty much to the tee of how Ivan's disease should be described.

Anonymous 2016-05-21 13:32:04 Post No.8065943
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>>8065650

Tfw

Anonymous 2016-05-21 13:41:20 Post No.8065961
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>>8064663
This, 100%. One of the absolute, most soul-crushing books I've ever read. ~~It has a happy ending however (fortunately).~~

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