List of pessimistic literature

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

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Image Name Author Date of publication
Zapiski iz podpol'ia. Povest' F.M. Dostoevskogo (1866) oblozhka.jpg
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)

Andreyev, Leonid

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

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