Hello, if you don't mind recommending, what would be some of your favorite books that deal with the subject of loneliness (fiction or nonficion)? I thank you in advance - and sorry about the anon, I don't have a tumblr anymore but have always admired yours.
Ah loneliness, the winter companion, sister to solitude. While for the latter, aloneness is a comfort; for the former, it is an aching gap. This distinction is not always clear in the literature, first and foremost because individuals tend to fear solitude so very much, convinced wholeheartedly that it is a sign of defect. But taking pleasure in solitude is a tremendous feat of mental fortitude and character, realised best by Thoreau. There are of course many, many others that I’ve no doubt forgotten, but as the winter approaches (soon, soon!), settle in for the long sleep with any of the following:
Albert Camus, The Outsider
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Anneli Rufus, Party of One: The Loners’ Manifesto
Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild
Georgina Harding, The Solitude of Thomas Cave
Gretel Ehrlich, The Solitude of Open Spaces
Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf
Janet Frame, Towards Another Summer
Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road
May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
Sylvain Tesson, Consolations of the Forest
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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