/lit/ - Literature

>>20208515
The first quarter of this (WWI). Biggest blackpill on war. Especially liked the bit where he's on leave and the women shame him for trying to avoid getting sent to the frontlines and then go out to fuck the foreigners coming in to get rich exploiting shortages

All of his books count, especially the Exile trilogy.

>>9037633

Journey to the End of the Night by Celine, most on this board will recommend Blood Meridian, but its serious nature doesn't allow it to grasp the same subtleties your picture reaches.

>>7566070

>>7561060

The worst part is wondering how you’ll find the strength tomorrow
to go on doing what you did today and have been doing for much
too long, where you’ll find the strength for all that stupid running around, those projects that come to nothing, those attempts to escape from crushing necessity, which always founder and serve only to convince you one more time that destiny is implacable, that every night will find you down and out, crushed by the dread of more and more sordid and insecure tomorrows. And maybe it’s treacherous old age coming on, threatening the worst. Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself

It's either the most depressing funny book of all time or the funniest depressing book of all time. I'm note sure.

>>7190681
Journey to the End of the Night.

/thread.

>>7001444
This cheeky bugger put it right in the title! The mad man!

>>6886269
forgot pic

>>6790510
At least it's better than bad-horror-movie cover

So is Robinson Bardamu's flashback or alter-ego?

Recommend me more books about poverty. Hunger by Hamsun is up next.

Literally the greatest book of all time. Everyone who has not read should read it immediately

when does it get good?