I wish to wallow in despair What are some books about characters

If you are interested in Dostoevsky, read Notes From The Underground. There's also Journey to the End of the Night, but I didn't think it was very well written.

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Without any irony, my diary desu.

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A little sour there, Alex?

It's a /lit/ meme but No Longer Human

The sorrows of young Werther is what you're looking for.

Paradise Lost.

Please allow me to introduce myself... missing you at lunch senpai.

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You may like Hunger by Knut Hamsun or THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY if you're new and haven't already.

L'Etranger?

>Half of all the presupposed great works of literature

most richard yates

Balzac's Lost Illusions.

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this is great self-destruction kino

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The problem with The Stranger and really Camus using it to explain absurdism is...the guy dies in the end. It's easy to be accepting of the benevolent indifference of the universe when your fate has already been decided and will be short lived. But to live is to have hope. And anguish.