List of pessimistic literature
List of works of literature that have expressed themes closely related to philosophical pessimism.
List
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Notes from Underground[1] | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 1864 |
| — | The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas[2] | Ursula K. Le Guin | 1973 |
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Zibaldone[3]: 54 | Giacomo Leopardi | 1898 |
| — | The Conspiracy Against the Human Race | Thomas Ligotti | 2010 |
| — | Blood Meridian[4] | Cormac McCarthy | 1985 |
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The Road[4] | Cormac McCarthy | 2006 |
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The Book of Disquiet[1] | Fernando Pessoa | 1982 |
| — | Infinite Resignation | Eugene Thacker | 2018 |
| — | The City of Dreadful Night[3]: 55 | Thomson, James "B.V." | 1874 |
| — | The Schopenhauer Cure | Yalom, Irvin D | 2005 |
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Candide | Voltaire | 1759 |
| — | Endgame[3]: 91 | Samuel Beckett | 1957 |
| — | Lazarus (short story) | 1906 | |
| — | No Longer Human[1] | Osamu Dazai | 1948 |
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The Sorrows of Young Werther[3]: 56–57 [1] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 1774 |
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Samuel Johnson | 1759 |
| — | Confession (Leo Tolstoy)[5]: 147–151 | Leo Tolstoy | 1882 |
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Journey to the End of the Night[6]: 54–55 | Louis-Ferdinand Céline | 1932 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Thacker, Eugene (2018). Infinite Resignation. Repeater. ISBN 978-1912248193.
- ^ Contestabile, Bruno (2 January 2016). "The Denial of the World from an Impartial View". Contemporary Buddhism. 17 (1): 49–61. doi:10.1080/14639947.2015.1104003. S2CID 148168698.
- ^ a b c d Feltham, Colin (2016). Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Explorations in Mental Health). Routledge. ISBN 978-1138823549.
- ^ a b "Cormac McCarthy: An American Philosophy". The Artifice. May 26, 2014. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
- ^ Ligotti, Thomas (2018). The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143133148.
- ^ Thoma, Merlin (1980). Louis-Ferdinand Céline. New York: New Directions. ISBN 0-8112-0754-4.