What are some of the edgiest classic books out there?

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>>8680189
Faust is edgy as fuck

>>8680189
You could argue Raskolnikov is the proto-edgelord (as a consolidation of, like, Hamlet and Werther and the like) that inspired every edgelord to come, so Crime and Punishment.

Though I guess if we're going straight japanese edgelordism, No Longer Human (with Oba being clearly inspired by Raskolnikov) is the go-to point where the lot stems from.

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>>8680189
>"Talk not of life, or ransom," he replies;
>"Patroclus dead, whoever meets me, dies:
>In vain a single Trojan sues for grace;
>But least, the sons of Priam's hateful race.
>Die then, my friend! If what boots it to deplore?
>The great, the good Patroclus is no more!
>He, far thy better, was foredoomed to die,
>And thou, dost thou bewail mortality?
>Seest thou not me, whom Nature's gifts adorn,
>Sprung from a hero, from a goddess born?
>The day shall come, which nothing can avert,
>When by the spear, the arrow, or the dart,
>By night, or day, by force or by design,
>Impending death and certain fate are mine.
>Die, then!" he said, and as the word he spoke,
>The fainting stripling sunk before the stroke;
>His hand forgot its grasp, and left the spear;
>While all his trembling frame confessed his fear.
>Sudden Achilles his broad sword displayed,
>And buried in his neck the reeking blade.
>Prone fell the youth; and, panting on the land,
>The gushing purple dyed the thirsty sand:
>The victor to the stream the carcass gave,
>And thus insults him, floating on the wave:

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I am evil incarnate. Within my mind lies the power to reduce you peasants to naught but ash.

Having evolved beyond the pitiful distractions you fools call "emotions", i spend my days and nights perfecting my craft - that of crime, lies, manipulation, and other unspeakable acts that would make you ill with fear.

I don't go to the bathroom without a plan B. I'm 15 steps ahead in every interaction with a peasant. It's quite laughable the way you peons execute my every whim, all while under the delusion of free will.

Your will is my will.

>>8680189
A lot of Shakespeare's work is edgy as fuck. Taming of the Shrew is basically proto-frogposting. Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello are edgelords too.

>>8681798
Taming of the Shrew is great for trolling artsy feminist chicks.

>>8681391
Rodya is indeed a bit of an edgelord but he redeems himself at the end. He represents the modern nihilistic man (in 19th century Russia, that is) which Dostoevsky disagreed with.

>>8680189

Agree with >>8681391, Raskolnikov is edgy as fuck. Underground Man is even worse.

Apart from that, de Sade is one of the first edgelords in literature, and his fiction reads like /b/-tier pasta today.

For contemporary lit, Brett Easton. Combine it with some of his podcasts where he's butthurt about some other author having more success than him for maximum effectiveness.

Journey to the End of the Night is a high point of edginess

>>8681391
Raskolnikov's philosophy is literally just Nietzhsche's

>>8680189
what game is that?

>>8680189
Sade's Justine

>>8682040
I think you mean Juliet.

>>8682012

other way around actually

>>8682138
I think Justine is edgier because you have this moralfaguette and everything bad happens to her precisely because she is a moralfag.

>>8682035
Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

>>8681787
E D G Y

Wuthering Heights is pretty edgy.