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I know that that's an unusual requeste but I really need novels or plays with a lot of bad words inside! I need it for my graduation thesis, cause I'll probably write a thesis about bad words in literature. Can u recommend me any book? thank u so much!
Okay. . .. .
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius - Dave Eggers
Naked Lunch - William S. Burroughs
Basically anything written after 1950 will have the "bad words" your looking for. Though books should be appretiated not for their "bad words" (which is one aspect), and for their stories, characters and themes.
First of all thank you sooooooo much!Quote:
Originally Posted by DanielBenoit
Have you ever heard about Dan Fante? read "Chump Change" and "dongiovanni" even if it's a play. It's full of bad words but it's wonderful. Anyway, I'm studying this aspect of the modern literature, I'm not just looking for books with bad words for fun :)
Thank u again.
Junky by Burroughs has lots too :)
Crash by J.G. Ballard
Divine Filth by Georges Bataille
Flesh Unlimited by Guillaume Apollinaire
"Last Exit to Brooklyn", by Hubert Selby Jr. perhaps ...
Thank you all guyz... please write something more if you can..
The Canterbury Tales - the Peter Ackroyd "translation" has modern "bad words" in profusion, if you want to avoid the old originals...
Shakespeare uses words like "cut" and "blank" a lot. That is, he has no hesitation in making bawdy jokes. But are these "bad words"?
The Confederacy of Dunces uses the f word a few times, but only a few.
Nicholson Baker's "The Fermata" has a lot of 'bad words' and he even makes up a new one.
Lady Chatterley's Lover by DH Lawrence (many bad words and explicit scenes. It wasn't published in Britain until 1960 and faced an obscenity trial)
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Any David Mamet play
The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard
For the time, those were considered "bad" words. Another example is s'blood.Quote:
Originally Posted by mal4mac
Thank u all guyz! You're helping me so much!
How about Little Women?
:p
Ah.
Trainspotting. Irvine Welsh.
If you don't mind the dialect.
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