Books like Sur les Cimes du Desespoir

Sur les Cimes du Desespoir by Emil Cioran reads as melancholy, provocative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

De l'inconvénient d'être né

Emil Cioran · 1973

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

78% genome match

Comment c'est

Samuel Beckett · 1961

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

Far away

Caryl Churchill · 2000

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

Sobre héroes y tumbas

Ernesto Sabato · 1961

Shares the bleak + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Short stories

Tadeusz Borowski · 1959

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

Try

Dennis Cooper · 1994

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist

Friedrich Nietzsche · 1969

Shares the vhypno thread

69% genome match

A educação do estóico

Fernando Pessoa · 2001

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

The End of the Fucking World

Charles Forsman · 2013

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

The fever

Wallace Shawn · 1991

Shares the vspare + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis · 1985

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match

Altmann's tongue

Brian Evenson · 1994

Shares the bleak + vspare thread

69% genome match