Does anyone know of any books with plots in which not much happens,

>>8801916
To the Lighthouse or Mrs. Dalloway, both by Virginia Woolf. Some might argue that they aren't interesting throughout, but I wouldn't.

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>>8801916
Things happen but in a detached and dreamy way. Introspective and philosophical. It's a beautiful journey piece.

Ghormenghast trilogy is 1200 pages of poetic depressing nothing

Cannery Row

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>>8801947
>>8801942
>>8801936

Thank you for the suggestions, I've recently read The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway and it was only at the end of the story that I realized the whole thing was about a group of guys who wanted to watch a bull fight.

>>8801949
>Cannery Row

Also known as, that one great depression book that isn't To Kill a Mockingbird.

It's still good though.

>>8801916
Ulysses

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Enthralling, too.

>>8801947
The most beautiful book of non-events ever written

>>8801916
The Afternoon Men by Anthony Powell
Nothing happens, yet remains fascinating and incredibly depressing. 10/10

>>8801953
this book came to mind for me too. steinbeck is great

Moby-Dick

>>8802129
>yet remain interesting throughout

>>8802135
Spot the pleb

>>8802137
spotted

Basically every Gerald Murnane novel

>>8801916
Stoner

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>>8801916
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

>>8801916
Dead Souls

>>8801916
The novels of William H. Gass. I like Middle C and The Tunnel over his first novel Omensetter's Luck personally. Right now I'm reading End Zone by Don DeLillo and I'll post on it once I'm finished with it. It's mainly characters talking to each other like the other books of his I've read.

The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

>>8802247
Will I enjoy this book if I absolutely adore Pessoa?

>>8802250
No. Pessoa and Saramago are very different authors and Saramago's prose reads nothing like Pessoa's. You may or may not enjoy the book, loving Pessoa or not.

It is, however, a book where nothing happens: Reis returns to Portugal to attend Pessoa's funeral and after almost nothing happens. It is, however, in my and many's opinion, Saramago's masterpiece.

>>8802195
Ceci.

>>8801916
À rebours

I don't know how is called in English, but there must be a translation

>>8802168
It only starts getting good half-way into it.