What's some good literature that deals with that terrible

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>>8430968

Proust might be the apex of this.

>>8430968
Have you heard of this French author called Proust?

Faulkner. Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!

death of a salesman

i guess all american fiction ever no exceptions

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>>8430974

lol don't listen to these plebs just read proust instead

Cien anos de soledad, anono.

"i could have won state if the coach just put me in" - all american fiction.

Literally anything written in Anglo-Saxon

You Can't Go Home Again by Wolfe gave me the most feels in terms of longing than any other book.

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>>8430968
My diary. I'm literally writing a short story that hinges on this theme.

>>8430993

Oh Fuck, this.

>>8430968
like half of all literature throughout fucking history you iun iunaiudfaiudbfiaubdfiubadifubaf

Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu. Gonna go with that as my answer.

the wholly bible

>>8430970
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>>8430981
Hi, Marcel. What are you doing on /lit/?

>>8431597

It's late and nightlife is a bore.

>>8430993
Yaaassss

>>8430968
Lolita

>>8431592
No, you are you yu bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!

>>8430968
Goddamnit OP the title of some of the greatest books of all time written by Proust is literally In Search For Lost Time. I mean... God damnit OP. You truly are a faggot.

Steppenwolf

>>8430987
kek

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>>8430987

>OP asks for literature about longing for the past
>half the thread literally recommends the author of "in search of lost time"

lit doesn't read

How about Davies's Deptford Trilogy?