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ich555
09-08-2011, 03:35 PM
Hello,

Im looking for something to read which should be in the direction of:
cynical, modern, fast, agressive, insulting..



Details:


-style: dynamic, fast, not settled at all or longbreathed
-radical ("sick,crazy/")
-not too trivial, but can pretend to be
-challenging in literary terms (or scientific,etc..)
-dramatic concept beyond theory application must be there (no nouveau roman, expressionism,etc) and/or extremly

brutal, mean, agressibe, sarcastic, cynic, politically incorrect, or any other negative property.
-not classical
-not emotionally-kitchy, not even the slightest hint
-no lyrical sentiments
-humor no problem

Similar to: Victor Pelewin, Irvene Welsh, Charles Bukowski, Thomas Bernhard,Paul Auster,Danielewski, Ellis,
Thompson, Chuck Palahniuk, Houellebeq, Jelinek (partly), and most of all: Bernemann

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Then its just about how wired the facts are, but they should have a definite negative edge.

Anybody got a clue?

Thanks!


PS: Please refrain from discussing everything apart from the question. Thanks!

Desolation
09-08-2011, 03:43 PM
Not exactly modern, but Louis-Ferdinand Celine sounds right up your alley. He was a big influence on a lot of the authors that you mentioned.

ich555
09-12-2011, 07:23 AM
thanks, know him. too "slow2, aka not modern.

but thanks!

more sugestions please

Seasider
09-12-2011, 07:30 AM
Why not write it yourself?

Mutatis-Mutandis
09-12-2011, 04:24 PM
Thomas Pynchon.

Drkshadow03
09-12-2011, 06:07 PM
Nick Mamatas? I've only read his original short story collection, but a lot of his work is very political, really funny, and some of it is brutal.

mal4mac
09-16-2011, 08:36 AM
Clive James? He might not be cynical enough for you, but he's a great essayist.

For something harder, try Simon Gray "The smoking diaries".

Scheherazade
09-16-2011, 08:39 AM
Catch-22

A Confederacy of Dunces