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Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano is about as disturbing as I can tolerate. Definitely in the Layer 1 category. It's an achronological story about the psychological effects of child abuse and has a largely schizophrenic organization. When I got my copy of the book, I read it twice in one day and then decided what I was doing was not healthy and stopped. Any of the cute physical humor or empathetic character pathos that's in Goodnight Punpun is absent in Holograph. It's just a disjunct hallucinatory dissociative nightmare of a book. the novel Earthlings by Sayaka Murata probably also fits the bill at level 0 or level 1. It's also kind of on the furthest edge of what I would personally consider tolerable to read. It's about childhood sexual abuse that leads into a ufo cult and cannibalism. I thought the first half of the book, for as incredibly dark as it is, was actually very moving. By the second half it starts becoming a cold analysis of extreme neurodivergence . Cephas fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Nov 23, 2021 |
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idk if Murakami really fits into the camp. He writes weird and dreamy stuff that sometimes can veer toward the nightmare side of a dream, but I don't think any of his works are actively frightening or repulsive the way horror fiction by King, or accounts of the holocaust by Wiesel, are. I think the closest you can get is Kafka on the Shore (has some pretty dark supernatural elements) and Wind-Up Bird (it's been a real long time since I've read it, but it has some depictions of the Rape of Nanking). tbh I think most people who read Murakami are more disturbed by his objectification of women lol. basically i think he's more "weird" than "disturbing"
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I would also recommend the book of poetry Ariel by Sylvia Plath for level 0. A posthumous collection of poems about suicide and madness and hating her father and her husband and being haunted by her miscarriage, and the inseparability (in her eyes) of blooming into something resplendent as an act of self-destruction. I think as a young adult it's easy to be seduced by her ability to elevate the banal domestic horrors of life into a self-mythology. Her skill with arresting imagery and lilting rhythm really is excellent. But in the end the poetry collection is unbelievably nihilist, and narcissistic, and she has no hesitation in using the pains of other people--black oppression, anti-semitism, the atom bomb--as fuel for her own suicidal self-beatification. Listening to her reading her own poetry is like listening to a sorceress incanting some witch's sabbath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0SREXcSUs quote:Fever 103° Cephas fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Nov 25, 2021 |
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