1. Dark, brooding, avoids sentimentality
2. Isn't formulaic, doesn't fit snugly into a particular genre, is layered
3. Possesses an underlying beauty and humanity
Quite specific I know, but I'll really appreciate any suggestions.
1. Dark, brooding, avoids sentimentality
2. Isn't formulaic, doesn't fit snugly into a particular genre, is layered
3. Possesses an underlying beauty and humanity
Quite specific I know, but I'll really appreciate any suggestions.
The Portrait of a Lady!!!!
(But then, I would suggest that, wouldn't I...)
Crime and Punishment would probably also fit nicely.
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham. Great sci-fi horror, Alex Garland/Danny Boyle borrowed from it for their horror film and novelization, 28 Days Later. Many parallels.
Story from the Underground
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
Name of the Rose or Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre by The two elder Bronte sisters.
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Count of Monte Cristo/The Three Musketeers/Les Miserables/The Hunchback of Notre Dame
My hide hides the heart inside
Rabindranath Tagore's "Home and the World."
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
I'm not sure if this is gonna fit, but I believe George Orwell's 1984 is quite gloomy, yet has an underlying beauty and humanity!
I'm the patron saint of the denial,
With an angel face and a taste for suicidal.
Nossa, 1984 is indeed a good choice! Beg to differ in the beauty point thoughThat Beauty/Humanity point really spoils my advices; I was going to suggest Beckett's Murphy or Watt (haven't yet read Watt till the end, but I definitely intend to).
I have the feeling that you guys are all going to assault me for this, but I think The Little Prince covers all of your points perfectly. You read it in a day, but unless you're heart is made out of stone, or if you consider yourself to be superior to such a (seemingly!) simple book, you will love it.
The Island of the Day Before by Eco
Perfume by Patrick Suskind.
The Island of Dr Moreau by HG Wells
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Faerie Tale by Raymond Feist
American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
first thing that came into my mind when I saw the requirements.
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution" - Hannah Arendt.
"Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance" - James Joyce
Currently reading:
Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath - Anne Stevenson
Anything by E. M. Cioren, Notes from the Underground, Dostoyevsky, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, Edgar Allen Poe. quasimodo1
Without renaming any all I can really think of is Lord of the Flies by William Golding... at least in my opinion...
Of those who say nothing, few are silent - Unknown
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