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- Three Novels - Samuel Beckett
The Upanishads - Eknath Easwaran translation
Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud
Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung
Abandoned Fragments - Franz Kafka
Philosophical Grammar - Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche
Hapworth 16, 1924 - JD Salinger
The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop
- It's definitely not the hardest "arthouse" novel (or whatever you call it), I found Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon so much more harder, and Beckett's Three Novels (i.e. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable) was likely the most difficult text I attempted to read in my life. Even then, I think it's still pretty difficult for an average Western reader in 2020s, our literacy attention span and interest is very low. People should definitely attempt it though!
