I’m looking for a book about longing but with a few specific parameters:
– Longing is due to unrequited or impossible love.
– There isn’t a happy ending.
– There isn’t a dramatic ending (such as Wurthering Heights or Ethan Frome).
I’m basically interested in the dynamic of restraint that never gets a satisfying or neat ending.
Not sure if something like this exists, but I haven’t been able to find anything that seems to fit the bill in previous threads.
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Ethan Fromme….ahhh…the good old Ethan Fromme.
Remains of the Day
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
(Don’t be fooled by the movie adaptation you may have seen. The book and the move are nothing alike.)
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Woman, Eating comes to mind!
More surreal than traditionally romantic but Y/N by Esther Yi fits all your parameters and is the most intriguing book I’ve read about longing and love in a while.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh; Giovanni’s room by James baldwin
*A Month in the Country* by J.L. Carr would do very well. It’s a novella. The writing is beautiful without being florid. It’s one of my favorite books.
Less Than by A.D. Long might be a good fit