List of pessimistic literature

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List of works of literature that have expressed themes closely related to philosophical pessimism.

List

Image Name Author Date of publication
Notes from Underground[1] Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1864
— The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas[2] Ursula K. Le Guin 1973
Zibaldone[3]: 54  Giacomo Leopardi 1898
— The Conspiracy Against the Human Race Thomas Ligotti 2010
— Blood Meridian[4] Cormac McCarthy 1985
The Road[4] Cormac McCarthy 2006
The Book of Disquiet[1] Fernando Pessoa 1982
— Infinite Resignation Eugene Thacker 2018
— The City of Dreadful Night[3]: 55  Thomson, James "B.V." 1874
— The Schopenhauer Cure Yalom, Irvin D 2005
Candide Voltaire 1759
— Endgame[3]: 91  Samuel Beckett 1957
— Lazarus (short story)

Andreyev, Leonid

1906
— No Longer Human[1] Osamu Dazai 1948
The Sorrows of Young Werther[3]: 56–57 [1] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Samuel Johnson 1759
— Confession (Leo Tolstoy)[5]: 147–151  Leo Tolstoy 1882
Journey to the End of the Night[6]: 54–55  Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932

References

  1. ^ a b c d Thacker, Eugene (2018). Infinite Resignation. Repeater. ISBN 978-1912248193.
  2. ^ Contestabile, Bruno (2 January 2016). "The Denial of the World from an Impartial View". Contemporary Buddhism. 17 (1): 49–61. doi:10.1080/14639947.2015.1104003. S2CID 148168698.
  3. ^ a b c d Feltham, Colin (2016). Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Explorations in Mental Health). Routledge. ISBN 978-1138823549.
  4. ^ a b "Cormac McCarthy: An American Philosophy". The Artifice. May 26, 2014. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
  5. ^ Ligotti, Thomas (2018). The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143133148.
  6. ^ Thoma, Merlin (1980). Louis-Ferdinand Céline. New York: New Directions. ISBN 0-8112-0754-4.