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Obviously Proust, and Nabakov, but I'm looking for those baroque stylist's that dazzle with long rococo sentences of romance and melancholy. Thanks.

Looking for novels with men who have been somehow wounded sexually. There are numerous great gay novels, but what about heterosexual ones ? I can think of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and A little...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and This Boy's Like by Wolf are books crackling with rage ? What are some of the angriest newels you've ever read ?

Probably the most unrelentingly bleak vision I've read is H.P. Lovecraft. Michel Houellebecq's novels too seem fairly nihilistic. Any others ?

What are some good literature with suicidal main characters ? I can think of The Bell Jar, The Virgin Suicides, and pretty much every Bukowski book....

I feel the books of Michel Houellebecq are pretty bitter. Any others ?

Pretty much no one can beat Kafka's creations, especially good ol' Gregor. Also poor Humbert from Lolita is awfully tortured....Who else ?

What good books have failures as protagonists ? I'd say practically every Bukowski book. I'm thinking washed up characters, people struggling with bitter disappointments etc

Or just a book that deftly deals with themes of loneliness and isolation. The Heart is a lonely hunter comes to mind...

I also thought of The Sin Also Rises and, tho not explicit, Hunger.

What novels have sexually frustrated folks in them, or people who are tortured by lust ? Lolita, I know. What else ?