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....
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....
If you like Bukowski, stick to him for awhile, aside from his novels he has a lot of short story books all pretty crazy and fun to read if you like his style. Check out his poem compilations too. I can't really think of anybody else but I've read a lot Buks works and he's consistent...
Goethe- The Sorrows of Young Werther
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Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary.
Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
A novel with 3 or 4 suicidal characters. The whole story revolves around them. A good, heartfelt read.
But you, cloudless girl, question of smoke, corn tassel
You were what the wind was making with illuminated leaves.
ah, I can say nothing! You were made of everything.
_Pablo Neruda
Oh I just thought of The Stranger by Albert Camus, really good too.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Mrs. Dalloway
Ah, you beat me to it.Originally Posted by stlukesguild
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, by Dostoevsky,
Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse
Catcher in the Rye
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Sound and the Fury
A Perfect Day for Bananafish (short story)
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov
And then there is that wonderful parody of suicidal romantic heroes at the end of Thomas Love Peacock's Nightmare Abbey. The protagonist swears that he'll kill himself by a certain time if his lover doesn't return to him.
Scythrop laid his pistol between his watch and his bottle. The hour-hand passed the VII.---the minute-hand moved on;---it was within three minutes of the appointed time. Scythrop called again to Crow: Crow answered as before. Scythrop rang the bell: Raven appeared.
'Raven,' said Scythrop, 'the clock is too fast.'
'No, indeed,' said Raven, who knew nothing of Scythrop's intentions; 'if any thing, it is too slow.'
'Villain!' said Scythrop, pointing the pistol at him; 'it is too fast.'
'Yes---yes---too fast, I meant,' said Raven, in manifest fear.
'How much too fast?' said Scythrop.
'As much as you please,' said Raven.
'How much, I say?' said Scythrop, pointing the pistol again.
'An hour, a full hour, sir,' said the terrified butler.
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Demons by Dostoyevsky has a few suicides.
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