What's a writer you'd recommend to a drug addict? I want some literature that has something to do not with the aspect of the addiction itself but with the alienation that comes with it.
Dostoievski, Nabokov, Saramago, Pessoa and Milton are some writers I really enjoy.
De Quincey and Baudelaire, for starters.
>>9642713
You're being overly romantic about your alienation.
Just git gud.
Hunter S. Thompson and William Burroughs
>>9642781
Disregard Thompson.
He's only intersting to losers. I should know. I can't think of anything he's published that has had a lasting effect once you get past "ITS ME LMAO." Gonzo journalism has single handedly skyrocketed journalism back into the Jurassic era.
t. Drug addict
>>9642713
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
No Longer Human - Dazai