I'm looking for edgelord books
No exploitation or cheap underground stuff
I hear Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is edgy
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Edgelord books
Blood Meridian is a good read, probably the best book to come out of an American, perhaps with the exception of the old man and the sea by hemingway.
What do you mean by "edgelord" though? Do you just want some awful subject matter and tribulations? Do you want something that 14 year old edge lords would read because they think it makes them cool? Do you want something that makes you reconsider all your preconceived notions of what a book is?
>Blood Meridian is a good read, probably the best book to come out of an American, perhaps with the exception of the old man and the sea by hemingway.
Get butthurt nerd, Americans suck at writing
More like the 14 year edgelord one
e-girlta, atlas shrugged, teddy k's big book, ass goblins of Auschwitz, the lusty argonian maid
les chants de maldoror
Behead All Satans
>unboxing?
It's edgy as frick but still actually good. Just don't expect any good feels and get over always having protagonists you like. Dune meets Berserk meets Lord of the Rings meets Game of Thrones with ancient philosophy and Hegel injected into it.
how is it edgy?
Any other books?
So are stories by cormac mcarthy and
Chuck palahnuik something that 14 year old edgelords would read?, but in a good way
If so, which of their books?
Only Palahniuk. Most teenagers tend to dislike McCarthy, maybe because his violence is spontaneous and ugly unlike Palahniuk's passive embellishment of it.
The Saviors of God by Nikos Kazantzakis (most of his novels too)
Anything by Emil Cioran
The Theatre and its Double by Antonin Artuad
Mallarme, Baudelaire, Rimbaud
Georges Bataille
I guess the French have fueled a lot of edgelords. I've been reading Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard recently and they're pretty edgy. Post-structuralism can be edgy, get your hands on some Cixous, Derrida, and Barthes. Read some anarchist literature, like Hakim Bey maybe.
Maurice Blanchot is pretty edgy, I really liked Thomas the Obscure and The Writing of the Disaster.
Maybe try some occultist literature? Read Evola and the Ur-Group.
Oh, and Fernando Pessoa is edgy af.
Hope this helps, I'm sure there's a ton I'm missing.
>Blanchot
I liked his de Sade work. What else should I read by him? I want to read his Lautreamont essay soon
Thomas the Obscure was a mesmerizing read for me, personally I give it a high recommendation. Same for The Writing of the Disaster, I think that was his most philosophically compelling work.
As far as literary theory, The Infinite Conversation and The Space of Literature are top-tier entrances to his work. His essay "The Gaze of Orpheus" is indispensable if you're reading Blanchot.
Among his fiction, The Madness of the Day and The Last Man were the easiest reads, and most pleasing to return to, in my opinion.
The Work of Fire and The Book to Come deserve mention also just as phenomenal pieces.
I was thinking something more in the direction of Fight club or American Psycho or Blood Meridian
By edgy I mean shocking stuff a 14 year old edgelord would read, because he feels it makes him cool
But again not cheap underground stuff
The Red Laugh by Leonid Andreyev
my super edgelord cousin used to read the 120 days of sodom in highschool during recess. not sure if it counts as exploitation though.
The Dark Enlightenment and other books by Nick Land