Are there any books or novels that evoke the same mood as the "videogame" Dear Esther?
Desolated European locations, very few characters, high linguistic register and cultured background without it being cervellotic, themes of loneliness and spleen, achetypical stories told by second-hand... everything drenched in an abundant dose of ambiguity.
the unconsoled by kazuo ishiguro
>>8960585
Don Q?
bump with what I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9zHDgWha0
>>8960585
>cervellotic
did you honestly expect a single person to know what the fuck that means?
>>8962286
I'm sorry, English is not my first language.
It means "Smugly and intentionally complex".
>>8960585
read W.G. Sebold
>>8962321
Why did you think about him?
How did his writings make you feel?
Are you thinking of a book in particular?
>>8962500
He is a very good writer. Very strange. His books tend to not have a plot and are instead a weird mix of history and travel writings with many philosophical digressions. The Emigrants is probably his most accessible, but Rings of Saturn is my favourite.
>>8960585
Really hard to say. It is different genre. One thing that writing is bad at is describing locations. So finding something that's like a moody walking sim is hard, even if it has a backstory. You may like The Magic Mountain from Mann though. Maybe Lovecraft. Romantics. Sorrows of Young Werther could do as well.
>>8960585
Salad Fingers
>>8962184
Oh my god that was boring.
shitty coelho shit is right up your alley
that game was fucking pretentious shit
>>8960736
don q is short for "The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha" or Don Quixote
Nonfiction:
Walden
Desert Solitare
A Sand County Almanac
Fiction:
Robinson Crusoe
>>8960585
Molloy is the right fit, especially since there's a bit of landscape wandering. Except it's not shit.
>>8962321
I like New Times Roman thin better.