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What are some novels that deal with themes of extreme isolation and hopelessness? "Last-man-on-earth" kind of scenarios.

>> No.7769232

>>7769231
Notes from the Underground.
All of Dickens' stuff.

>> No.7769428

>>7769232
best translation for notes from underground?

>> No.7769465

>>7769428
Penis and Vagina.

>> No.7769519

>>7769465

Isn't P&V hated here on lit? Are you deliberately giving me bad advice?

>> No.7769561

>>7769231
Did Cormac lose his comma key and never bother to get it replaced? I read the first twenty pages of this and I never saw one, really bothered me

>> No.7769599
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7769599

>>7769231
The Painted Bird. It's about a very young Gypsy boy who gets separated from his parents during the Holocaust. He wanders from village to village in Eastern Europe, sometimes finding a safe place to stay, but more times often than not he's abused in a whole manner of ways.


It has a happy ending, however.{/spoiler]

>> No.7769600

>>7769519
I just wanted to call them that. I'm not even anglo.

>> No.7769605

>>7769561
Yes. He talked about it on Ophrah.

>> No.7769606

>>7769231
Johnny Got His Gun

>> No.7769633

>>7769561

That's just how he writes. He prefers not to "clutter pages with unnecessary punctuation," or something.

>> No.7769927

>>7769231
1984 seems too obvious a suggestion, but that kinda has what you're looking for.

>> No.7769948

>>7769633
same reason he doesn't use quotation marks and doesn't put an apostrophe in some contractions. it's particular to him but doesn't feel like a gimmick; not like some young writers who don't capitalize their I's or don't use periods to try and find their "thing", because in his case there's substance behind it.

>> No.7770033

>>7769599
The fact that the dude who wrote this killed himself over the criticism he received for the books blatant fake-ness is so damn funny

>> No.7770068

>>7769599
>It has a happy ending
the gyppo dies?

>> No.7770084

I want to say 'I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream' but I feel like there are other themes within it that are much stronger.

>> No.7770085

>>7769231
I've only read Last Exit To Brookly by Hubert Selby Jr, but 'The Room' & 'The Demon' may cater to the topics of isolation and hopelessnes in different ways.