Melancholia


The Bell Jar
The Metamorphosis
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Stranger
Crime and Punishment
White Nights
The Virgin Suicides
No Longer Human
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Remains of the Day
Norwegian Wood
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Black Sun
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Writers & Lovers
A Literate Passion by Anaïs NinThe Lover by Marguerite DurasAnthony and Cleopatra by William ShakespeareThe Malady of Death by Marguerite DurasMedea and Other Plays by Euripides
Melancholikós
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Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Masters Of Misery
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Ain't this been a hell of a time? ...more
Larry McMurtry , Leaving Cheyenne

Michel Foucault
Hermann Boerhaave still defined melancholia as merely "a long persistent delirium without fever, during which the sufferer is obsessed by only one thought. ...more
Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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