books about apathetic men walking around

>>9525163
>siddhartha (kind of)
>catcher in the rye
>A hero of our time (kind of)
>No longer human (kind of)
>crime and punishment (although not really apathetic)

Hunger by Hamsun is literally the quintessential "apathetic man walking around" - book.

It's also sardonically funny.

you cant win - jack black

nyrb classics has a real fetish for these types of books in my experience

The Black Book, Pamuk

the glass bead game

>>9525163
Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque. The situation for three young men in the Weimar Republic, there is a lot of parallels to today's society

>>9525163
"the sound and the fury" by hemmmmingway - for the quentin bits

>>9525183

Black is anything but apathetic.

>>9525163
Oblomov.

Rilke's novel- Notebook of some cockamamie Viking name

Van Goghs letters to Theo

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/18/anhedonia-here-i-come-by-colin-barrett

>>9526193

Are you kidding me? Rilke is the complete opposite of apathy.

>>9525177
read this around new years, freezing out.. Good book

>>9525163
Ask the dust by John Fante, it inspired Bukowski the most he said.

rum diary

>>9525163
Zeno's Conscience

>>9526141
>oblomov
>walk
Boi doesn't get out of bed for half of it

>>9525163
I remember The Sun Also Rises. When I finished it I was like, wait that's it? Nothing really happens. There's no tension, no climax, no denouement

Hunger by Hamsun
The Trial to an extent

>>9525163

crimes and punishment

totally about apathetic dudes just walking around

Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter

Fits in perfectly. NYRB. Great little book, especially if you're looking for something in this catagorey. Little more "plot" than a few of the books people have mentioned, though.

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Like I said in the last thread, Un homme qui dort by Georges Perec is the definition of this. Unlike all the others, nothing else happens except walking around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaIXUXdYthA

>>9527088

>no tension
>TSAR

aspergers detected

The Book of Disquiet is the best book in the general.

The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra.

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This one... more than anything else...

Aylak Adam is a Turkish novel that's a pretty stereotypical example of this trope. It's a good summer read. Don't think there are any English translations though. I read it in Dutch (translated as De Lanterfanter)

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy.

Some anon recommended it to me a long time ago. Thanks, anon.

>>9527146
Agree

>>9527114
Fuck off Hard Rain Falling is full of rough dudes doing rough shit. There's nothing literary about that.

Steppenwolf

>>9525163
Tropic of Cancer

Walter Benjamin had some essay about The Flanuer. Can't remember which book though. Arcades maybe?

the one im writing