Which books are essential for paranoid people?

you must think you're really cool having graduated from romanticizing depression to romanticizing the MUCH MORE LITERARY paranoia

o, us damaged souls? why does nobody get us? why will women never love us?

>>8397560
unironically very good post

>>8397551
kafka
pynchon

>>8397551
Crime and Punishment

philip k dick, of course.

>>8397705
This. Start with VALIS.

Part 2 of Sound and the Fury

>>8397560
>>8397663
kys

>>8397551
The proper terminology in this case is woke

A Scanner Darkly

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>>8397671
Seconding.

>>8397551
Chekhov's "Ward №6" might be interesting.

>>8399160
I think Poe and Kafka are both better writers of paranoia, even with Pynchon being the self appointed paranoid king.

Pynchon engages with paranoia not so much as a feeling as a narrative technique. There's really no room for paranoia in Pynchon's writing because there's no room for doubt. We know from the onset everything IS connected and everything will fall into place. Characters always return, and links between one plot or another are written in on the fly, we are never fearing the ultimate structure that lies beneath because we're seeing it put together in front of us. And his characters so often labeled paranoids could not be more trusting of others and unafraid to make a move.

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Artaud
Deleuze
Fouccault