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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	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	1864
—	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	Ursula K. Le Guin	1973
	Zibaldone	Giacomo Leopardi	1898
—	The Conspiracy Against the Human Race	Thomas Ligotti	2010
—	Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy	1985
	The Road	Cormac McCarthy	2006
	The Book of Disquiet	Fernando Pessoa	1982
—	Infinite Resignation	Eugene Thacker	2018
—	The City of Dreadful Night	Thomson, James "B.V."	1874
—	The Schopenhauer Cure	Yalom, Irvin D	2005
	Candide	Voltaire	1759
—	Endgame	Samuel Beckett	1957
—	Lazarus (short story)	Andreyev, Leonid	1906
—	No Longer Human	Osamu Dazai	1948
	The Sorrows of Young Werther	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1774
	The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia	Samuel Johnson	1759
—	Confession (Leo Tolstoy)	Leo Tolstoy	1882
	Journey to the End of the Night	Louis-Ferdinand Céline	1932

References

1. ^ 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. ^ Feltham, Colin (2016). Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Explorations in Mental Health). Routledge. ISBN 978-1138823549.
4. ^ "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.

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