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 Dostoevsky 1864 "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" Ursula K. Le Guin 1973 Small Moral Works 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 ResignationEugene Thacker 2018 The City of Dreadful Night James "B.V." Thomson 1874
The Schopenhauer Cure Irvin D. Yalom 2005 Candide Voltaire 1759
Endgame Samuel Beckett 1957
"Lazarus"Leonid Andreyev 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 1882 Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1932 The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Carroll Wainwright 2023 The Fall Albert Camus 1956 Kaddish for an Unborn Child Imre Kertész 1990 Kappa Ryunosuke Akutagawa 1927 El Criticón Baltasar Gracián 1651
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