J.D. Salinger, Dostoevsky or... who shall I read next?

[noname223]

I read almost all David Foster Wallace stories. I need someone new to stan. Maybe also someone with dark themes. Maybe suicide and depression related. Who comes to your mind?

 

[Thisisnotaname]

Céline

 

[SVEN]

Nietzsche "Beyond Good or Evil"; Osho.

 

[avalokitesvara]

Jean Améry

 

[Alexei_Kirillov]

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?

 

[leloyon]

Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima.

 

[noname223]

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?

Both is good.

Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima.

Sounds interesting.

 

[unknown_xav]

Don't know if you'd like these:

Osamu Dazai - No longer human

Albert Camus - The stranger

Horace McCoy - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Also the movie adaptation is cool)

Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dollaway (Also her other works, The hours is also a good movie that deals with her life, and novels)

Édouard Levé - Suicide

Édouard Levé - Autoportrait

Sylvia Plath (Her whole catalogue of poems if interested in poetry)

Thomas Ligotti – The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Jeffrey Eugenides - The Virgin Suicides (Also available as a movie adaptation)

Zapffe - The last Messiah (it's an essay)

 

[Tuonetar_]

The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

Mason & Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, or really anything written by Pynchon

The Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima

Correction by Thomas Bernhard - this one is explicitly about suicide

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[noname223]

Thank you for all your recommendations. I highly appreciate it and it means much to me. And it will help many others.

My two favorites of the listed ones are Yukio Mishima Life for sale
And No Longer human from Dazai Osamu.

I tend to the first one because I like dark themes with witty humor. And I read about Mishima even as a suicidal teenager. I was sort of fascinated by this guy.

 

[Aergia]

Maybe also someone with dark themes. Maybe suicide and depression related.

Considering this and that you liked DFW's short fiction, you might like Zero-Sum by Joyce Carol Oates.

 

[Apathy79]

The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai

Mason & Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, or really anything written by Pynchon

The Temple of the Golden Pavillion by Yukio Mishima

Correction by Thomas Bernhard - this one is explicitly about suicide

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I think Brothers Karamazov is still the best fiction I've ever read. I'll upvote that one. Although very broad themes only some of which you asked for.

 

[leloyon]

I tend to the first one because I like dark themes with witty humor. And I read about Mishima even as a suicidal teenager. I was sort of fascinated by this guy.

Yeah, I'd heard about the Mishima incident before I'd read any of his works, though Life For Sale was the first book of his that I read.
I'd be interested in seeing a SaSu member's feelings on Hanio Yamada, I remember relating to him a lot when I read it.
I feel like I should have put some kinda description of the book for anyone curious, be it OP or just someone else in the thread.
So it follows Hanio Yamada, a salaryman who, one day, just loses the will to live. He overdoses on pills in a suicide attempt but fails to die. With this, he quits his job and places an ad in the newspaper advertising his life for sale, resulting in people buying his life to put him in situations that would likely result in his death. That's basically all I can say without spoiling.

 

[noname223]

Life For Sale by Yukio Mishima.

I started reading it today. I am already at page 95. I definitely don't regret buying it. It is dark and quite funny. I needed that.