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books that the protoganist lives in a world without hope.

>> No.17309576

my diary desu

>> No.17310057
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>>17309568
read At the Heights of Despair

>> No.17310232

The Road?

>> No.17310464

>>17309568
What about a world without cope?

>> No.17310474

>>17309568
The Gravity Rainbow

>> No.17310491

>>17309568
Unironically:
1984
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Gulag Archipelago

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>>17309568
Read this the other day, if you fancy something new.

Drags in the middle but has a strong opening and a somewhat decent ending. Mite be up your alley.

>> No.17310781

>>17309576
>keeping a diary

>> No.17310794

tartar steppe

>> No.17310801

>>17310781
Found the newfag

>> No.17310813

>>17310794
Are you by any chance illiterate?

>> No.17311400

>>17310464

>> No.17311642

>>17309568
1984, but only towards the end it emerges clearly to the protagonist that it truly is hopeless.
The Road, haven't read it.
Almost anything by Lovecraft.

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>>17309568
extremely underrated

>> No.17312031

>>17309576
fpbp

>> No.17312579

>>17311648
Ernst Junger is a very admirable man

>> No.17312623

The Elementary Particles

>> No.17313103

>>17310232
Did you not finish it? Carry the fire and all that?

>> No.17313112

>>17309568
No Country for Old Men

>> No.17314020

>>17309568
how it is

>> No.17314059

>>17310794
That's the opposite

>> No.17314201

>>17309568
The New Testament

>> No.17314209

>>17314201
Plot twist? He is hope.

>> No.17314272

>>17309568
Literally any Cormac McCarthy

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>>17311648
>Junger poster
high-T based forest rebel detected, B)

>> No.17315875

>>17314059
How so?

>> No.17315927

>>17310464
uff

>> No.17315941

Pretty much any novel by Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Dasa Drndic

>> No.17315950

real life

>> No.17316077

>>17315875
OP asks for no hope
Hope is the only thing Droggo and co have in fort Bastiani

>> No.17316095

>>17316077
I guess so but it's all lost and pointless by the end.

>> No.17316133

>>17309568
To Kill a Mockingbird

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>>17316133
lmao yeah ok, DUDE!

>> No.17316166

>>17314209

>> No.17316173

The Road

>> No.17316190

HOPE IS THE SWEET VENOM THAT GRADUALLY KILLS THE SOUL; HOPE IS THE DELUSIONAL COPING DEVICE OF THE FAITHLESS & INEPT.

>> No.17316193

Anything by the Brothers Strugatsky

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>>17316190
insufferable post

>> No.17316456

>>17316190
t po bin

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