/lit/ - Literature

The Device in Kafka's 'In the Penal Colony'

Oh god. So many parts of IJ. Scared me straight, no hard drugs for me ever.

>>2910764
like the part where the girl has a stillborn and carries it around with her until it's stuck to her stomach in the hot summer... DFW was one fucked up man

dont know OP, don't care, but just give me more of ''lovely raquel''

Lovely Raquel.

On-topic though, most of the Fantasy Game scenes in Ender's Game.

american psycho where he lets the rat eat one of his victims

randy lenz stabbing that dog was also pretty gratuitous

Many points throughout Blood Meridian.

>>2910758
That too.

>>2910776
That happens in Matthew Lewis's The Monk, which was written in 1796

Poe comes to mind, but nothing he wrote about was that shocking really

The part in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea where the kids disembowel a kitten. Or pretty much all of Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids.

>>2910830
Disgusting in whatever century it takes place in.

The little kid gang-bang at the end of Stephen King's It. Read that when i was 9 or 10 and it did not sit right.

A Clockwork Orange is pretty grim at times. It's not what happens that much, more the cheerful chummy way he describes breaking into a woman's house a raping her while her husband watches.

>>2910874

"...squirting the hypodermic like some bare doctor, then giving myself the old jab of growling jungle-cat secretions in the rooker. […] I felt the old tigers leap in me and then I leapt on these two young ptitsas. This time they thought nothing fun and stopped creeching with high mirth, and had to submit to the strange and weird desires of Alexander the Large which, what with the Ninth and the hypo jab, were choodessny and zammechat and very demanding, O my brothers."

In Germinal by Zola, the 'hero' watches his sweetheart being defowered by a douchebag. So cringe inducing.

>>2910872
You're joking, right? I've never read the book.

>>2911013

I'm afraid not.

Needless to say, this scene was left out of the TV mini-series.

>>2911023
W-why? What's the justification for it? What's the context?

The incest parts of The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan are a little weird at times.

Also Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.

>>2911029
If I recall correctly, it's just before the group of kids goes to confront the monster and the girl of the group decides it would be a great way for them to bond or something...So they pass her around and King goes on to describe how each of their little dicks feel.

King gets lots of shit for being a hack (I like him, but I won't disagree), but I rarely ever see people bring up the weird raunchy stuff that's in many of his books.

>>2911043
Oh Jesus Christ, what? Holy shit. what a fucking nutjob.

>>2911043
Is there any chance you could post an excerpt from that shit, or give me the page number?

>>2911066
Sorry, but I don't have a copy of the book handy. It's towards the end.

Here's a thread on his forum talking about it: http://www.stephenking.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-18567.html

>>2911077
Never mind, I found it. This is fucking weird.

>>2911085
spoiler:

"It" is sex. By having It, they're not afraid of It anymore.

but seriously wtf, king.

Pretty much any pf Sade's work get really tough on sexual depravery at some point.
There's a scene in a Jack London short story (I think) where the crewman decide to slit the throat and eat the flesh of the youngest of them (a 15 years old boy). It takes them long to decide, and by the moment they kill the boy another boat appears to save them. Not really gore, but still pretty disturbing. The are also those trees in the forests of suivided in the seventh circle of Inferno. The trees are the "new" bodies of the suicided. Dante break a part of one tree and it start crying and bleeding. Later, Dante meets two men in the ninth circle (covered by ice) who are virtually stick together by the ice. One of the is seen gnawing the brain of the other.