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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 Dostoyevsky	1864
	The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas	Ursula K. Le Guin	1973
	Zibaldone	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 Resignation	Eugene Thacker	2018
—	The City of Dreadful Night	Thomson, James "B.V."	1874
	The Schopenhauer Cure	Yalom, Irvin D	2005
	Candide	Voltaire	1759
—	Endgame	Samuel Beckett	1957
—	Lazarus (short story)	Andreyev, Leonid	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)	Leo Tolstoy	1882

References

1. ^ Thacker, Eugene (2018). Infinite Resignation. Repeater. ISBN 978-1912248193.
2. Contestabile, Bruno (2 January 2016). "The Denial of the World from an Impartial View". Contemporary Buddhism. 17 (1): 49–61. doi:10.1080/14639947.2015.1104003. S2CID 148168698.
3. ^ Feltham, Colin (2016). Depressive Realism: Interdisciplinary perspectives (Explorations in Mental Health). Routledge. ISBN 978-1138823549.
4. ^ "Cormac McCarthy: An American Philosophy". The Artifice. May 26, 2014. Archived from the original on July 28, 2020. Retrieved April 26, 2020.
5. Ligotti, Thomas (2018). The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143133148.

• List of pessimistic literature