Ugly Literature?

[itsmepaul]

Ugly Literature?

Hello,

Im looking for something to read which should be in the direction of:
cynical, modern, fast, agressive, insulting.. or grotesque factbook. I can best coin it: Ugly Literature.

Details:


-style: dynamic, fast, not settled at all or longbreathed
-radical ("sick,crazy/")
-humor no problem
-mean in a gruesone way, not splatter, but abstract negativity
-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 (no spatter), mean, agressibe, sarcastic, cynic, politically incorrect, or any other negative property.
-not classical
-not emotionally-kitchy, not even the slightest hint
-no lyrical sentiments


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, John NIven, Banksy (genre overlaps no problem)

Absurd or exposing nonfiction as well

york - Dictators-Homes-Lifestyles-Colourful-Despots
kurz - blackbook capitalism


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!

[cacian]

i would say racist literature is ugly literature.

[itsmepaul]

i would say racist literature is ugly literature.

if its a style device maybe, otherwise plain stupid.

[cacian]

if its a style device maybe, otherwise plain stupid.

what is plain stupid? the style?

[itsmepaul]

what is plain stupid? the style?

content obviously. lets get back to the topic.

[stlukesguild]

I can't help you. I'm a sworn adherent to the philosophy of Oscar Wilde: "The artist is the creator of beautiful things."

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

[DATo]

Don't know if this is what you're looking for but the first book that comes to mind is The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass.

[itsmepaul]

Don't know if this is what you're looking for but the first book that comes to mind is The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass.

thanks, but no. Way to classical and nice.

[stlukesguild]

Jean Genet, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Georges Bataille, Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Blood Meridian

[Sospira]

A Clockwork Orange, Waiting for Godot

[wordeater]

Henry Miller?
Douglas Coupland?
Stephen Fry?
Bret Easton Ellis?
James Ellroy?
Michel Faber?

[itsmepaul]

Jean Genet, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Georges Bataille, Cormac McCarthy's Child of God and Blood Meridian

Thanks, but too classical, eg normal these days.

[itsmepaul]

Done, enjoyed. (to clockwork)

[itsmepaul]

Henry Miller? - too standrd..
Douglas Coupland? - on it, seems great.
Stephen Fry? - will try.
Bret Easton Ellis? - done, great.
James Ellroy? - will try.
Michel Faber?

- will try.

Thanks very much!

[amidnightdreary]

120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade

If you haven't read any of his stuff, it is not that sexy nice TV sadism at all. That book is disgusting to the point that I wasn't sure if I was supposed to laugh or not. But I marveled at the sheer creativity. Very ugly book, don't be fooled by the time period in which it was written. I have a copy of the book that says it was only saved (de Sade never saw its publication; he assumed it lost after the sacking of the Bastille) as an artifact of human depravity for brain doctor sociologists whatever to study lol. Later it became general fiction.

My history of the book is hazy because I haven't read it cover to cover, and I haven't read it at all in almost 2 years. But it's definitely a unique book, both for its history and its content.