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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.
The forums are suprisingly active today. Usually it takes weeks for a persons question to get this many answers :lol:
How late it was, how late. by James Kelman
If I remember Catcher in the Rye had dome bad language in it. Everyone in my english class was happy because they got to swear in class without getting into trouble :]
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
William S. Burroughs The Naked Lunch.
thak u all guyz! you're great!
:confused: I'm confused, did I read the edited version of "Little Women"? I don't think I saw any "bad words"Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
'Once Were Warriors' by Alan Duff. And probably a few others by him.
It was a joke I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
Any of Kathy Acker's or Irvine Welsh's novels:
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Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ****ing big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of ****ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing ****ing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
(I am always surprised by the Kathy Acker books I find in my shelf unexpectedly. Never thought I had Don Quixote!)Quote:
The receptionist, knowing that all women who're about to have abortions're crazy, assured the woman her abortion'ld be over by nighttime. 'I, myself,' the receptionist confided, 'used to be mad. I refused to be a woman the way I was supposed to be. I travelled all over the world, looking for trouble. I prostituted myself, ran a few drugs- nothing hard-, exposed my genitalia to strange men while picking their pockets, broke and entered, lied to the only men I loved, told the men I didn't love the truth that I could never love them, ****ed one man after another while telling each man I was being faithful to him alone, ****ed men over, for, by ****ing me over, they had taught me how to **** them over. Generally, I was a *****.Kathy Acker Don Quixote
Well,Philip Roth and especially Jean Genet's novels and plays could be useful
Tropic of Cancer has already been said, but it seems to be your best bet.
It's also a pretty good book.