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I'm looking for a book to read that could be described as nothing.
I don't want drama or humor. I don't want romanticism or epiphany. I don't want philosophy or a point of view. I don't want nihilism or grittiness. I don't want lolsorandom or cleverness. I don't want cool or scandal. I don't want anything other than nothing.
Does such a book exist?
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Yeah.
It's called "Facebook"
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>>8421296
Look kids. It's another classic /lit/ zinger
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The novelization of Seinfeld ?
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Rosamunde Pilcher is the closest thing I can think of. Is this in the right direction OP?
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Nouveau roman is what you are looking for. Read La Jalousie by Alain Robbe-Grillet, for instance.
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>>8421313
I guess this isn't a serious suggestion.
I don't know if this film is what I'm going for but it's in the right direction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WcYY4WU7wM&list=PLfeduzA1hQ3Jg2ybHaBPw4b4wQgaA3VMJ
>>8421329
>Controversially, he argues against "several obsolete notions" such as character, story and depth.
Thanks, that does sound very much like it.
More suggestions welcome.
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>>8421294
Beckett?
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It's not really about nothing per se but "Something happened" by Joseph Heller sort of fits the bill. It's something like 500 pages of a guy telling you about his petty family drama, work drama, love life drama but the subjective experience of reading it feels pretty empty.
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>>8421294
What about that book your mom was writing that contains all of your achievements that she's proud of?
So far the pages are blank. That count as nothing, right?
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>>8421294
I'd recommend À rebours by J. K. Huysmans. It's just some rich dude being rich. A little plot at the beginning and the end, but nothing really happens. I think I read that the author wanted a book that did have a plot, or something of the sort; thus the name, which means "against the grain."
Of course, when I say that I recommend it, I mean that I think it fits your description. Personally, I couldn't fucking stand it.
>>8421357
It has humor, and quite a lot, given the nearly nonexistent plot.
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>>8421364
Top kek.
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>>8421294
The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker.
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>>8421294
https://www.amazon.com/What-Every-Thinks-About-Apart/dp/1849531986
this is what you're looking for
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