List of pessimistic literature

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List of works of literature that have expressed themes closely related to philosophical pessimism.

List

Image Name Author Date of publication
Zapiski iz podpol'ia. Povest' F.M. Dostoevskogo (1866) oblozhka.jpg
Notes from Underground [1] Fyodor Dostoevsky 1864
"The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" [2] Ursula K. Le Guin 1973
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Small Moral Works [3] :52 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 [5] :55 James "B.V." Thomson 1874
The Schopenhauer Cure Irvin D. Yalom 2005
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Candide Voltaire 1759
Endgame [5] :91 Samuel Beckett 1957
"Lazarus"

Leonid Andreyev

1906
No Longer Human [1] Osamu Dazai 1948
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The Sorrows of Young Werther [1] [5] :56–57 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson 1759
Confession [6] :147–151 Leo Tolstoy 1882
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Journey to the End of the Night [7] :54–55 Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932
The Unbearable Heaviness of BeingCarroll Wainwright2023
The Fall Albert Camus 1956
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Kaddish for an Unborn Child Imre Kertész 1990
Kappa Ryunosuke Akutagawa 1927
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El Criticón Baltasar Gracián 1651

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Thacker, Eugene (2018). Infinite Resignation. Repeater. ISBN   978-1912248193.
  2. 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.
  3. Dienstag, Joshua Foa (2009). Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0691141121.
  4. 1 2 "Cormac McCarthy: An American Philosophy". The Artifice . May 26, 2014. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 Feltham, Colin (2016). Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Explorations in Mental Health). Routledge. ISBN   978-1138823549.
  6. Ligotti, Thomas (2018). The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. Penguin Books. ISBN   978-0143133148.
  7. Thoma, Merlin (1980). Louis-Ferdinand Céline. New York: New Directions. ISBN   0-8112-0754-4.