Mean, evil Literature? Even funny?

Hey,

can anyone give me hints on that? Something like mean, evil, sarcastic, cynical literature. Not in plot (splatter, cruelty), but more in description, on the refelxive level. If even funny, id be delighted. Not too classical (sade, celine and the like).

Like: Dirk Bernemann, Irene Welsh, Thompson, Pelewin, Vonnegut.

Thanks!

Lolita

The chants of Maldoror- Lautreamont

Catch-22, of course

How about Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs? That's the funniest, most evil one I can think of.

Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time

Dostoevsky. I don't care if you don't want to read the classics. Fyodor puts everyone else down.

Hi,

thanks for all!

But all too classical and burrows, lolita and catch 22 i know. But even these are too solid, mainstream, undaring.

Any more ideas?

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Hi,

thanks for all!

But all too classical and burrows, lolita and catch 22 i know. But even these are too solid, mainstream, undaring.

Any more ideas?

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Yes...

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Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time

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Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy

The Man Without Qualities - Robert Musil

American Pyscho - Bret Easton Ellis

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Originally Posted by ich555

Hi,

thanks for all!

But all too classical and burrows, lolita and catch 22 i know. But even these are too solid, mainstream, undaring.

Any more ideas?

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The Pitchfork Disney by Phillip Ridley.

Evelyn Waugh and Saki were both fairly ruthless, as well as enormously funny.

Molloy - Beckett

The Tin Drum - Grass

The Fall - Camus

But these are all also classics, sorry...

Eastwood's speech at the republican convention.

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Lolita

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Hi Kelby which of the three descriptions do you apply to this book?

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Hi Kelby which of the three descriptions do you apply to this book?

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All of them. The novel is narrated by a deluded paedophile as a sort of love letter to a twelve year old girl he supposedly fell in love with, and it's essentially the Jamesian theme of Old Europe corrupting Young America. One of the most unreliable narrators ever.

The Story of the Eye by George Bataille:
http://ps28.squat.net/bataille_story_of_eye.pdf

Anything by Irving Welsh or Kathy Acker and obviously Songs of Maldoror.

The Saline Solution - Marco Vassi

The short stories of Somerset Maugham are extremely cynical. Whilst not explicitly nasty in the way of, say, Burroughs or Irvine Welsh, Maugham has a cold, deterministic view of human nature which I find far more unsettling.

Certain types of writers want to show humanity at its depths. I get the feeling that Maugham saw it as rotten all the way to the top.

The Master and Margarita

"My Life As A Small Boy" by Wally Cox ---really!