Reading path

The Quiet Despair

For the days when nothing is wrong and everything is wrong. These are books about the slow ache of existence, the weight of ordinary life, the unnamed sadness that settles in without permission. No dramatic catastrophe. No villain. Just consciousness turned inward, observing itself with terrible precision. If you have ever sat in a room and felt the hours press down on you, this path already knows your name.

In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.

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The route

1. The Death of Ivan IlyichLeo Tolstoy, 1886
2. Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert, 1857
3. OblomovIvan Goncharov, 1859
4. The StrangerAlbert Camus, 1942
5. NauseaJean-Paul Sartre, 1938
6. Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf, 1925
7. The Book of DisquietFernando Pessoa, 1982
8. StonerJohn Edward Williams, 1965
9. The Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro, 1989
10. The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov, 1904
11. AubadePhilip Larkin, 1977
12. The LeopardGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958
13. The House of MirthEdith Wharton, 1905
14. Dom CasmurroMachado de Assis, 1899
15. DublinersJames Joyce, 1914
16. A Winter In HakkariFerit Edgü, 1977
17. The Copenhagen TrilogyTiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman, Tove Ditlevsen, 1967
18. The EveningsGerard Reve, 1947
19. The TruceMario Benedetti, 1960
20. Main StreetSinclair Lewis, 1920
21. The Death of the HeartElizabeth Bowen, 1938
22. Poor FolkFyodor Dostoevsky, 1846
23. Ode on MelancholyJohn Keats, 1819
24. Doctor GlasHjalmar Soderberg, 1905
25. Play It As It LaysJoan Didion, 1970
26. No Longer HumanOsamu Dazai, 1948