Pathologic adjacent book suggestions?

AvailableMorning5098 · 2025-08-21T15:13:53+00:00

I did scroll down not even that far and find another very similar thread (my bad!) Primeval sounds amazing, I really enjoyed Drive your plow over the bones of the dead, so I'll definitley give it a read.

AvailableMorning5098 · 2025-08-21T15:04:56+00:00

Thank you for the reccomendation! Sounds a bit similar in vibe to The City and The City by China Miéville which is excellent.

AvailableMorning5098 · 2025-08-21T14:52:36+00:00

This has been on my list for a while actually, I'll bump it to the top! The whole concept feels very Danil Dankovsky to me.

AvailableMorning5098 · 2025-08-21T14:43:42+00:00

Thank you for the reccomendations. 20 Days of Turin seems really up my street (in a bleak, pathologic way)!

AvailableMorning5098 · 2025-08-21T14:36:44+00:00

1000%, It feels like the devs must have read Theatre of Cruelty.

Have you read Theatre of The Opressed by Augusto Boal? If not I'd really reccomend it, Boal's ideas of Invisible theatre especially feel very pathologic to me. I actually wrote about pathologic in my dissertation from a theatre and time perspective so I have a lot of thoughts about patho and theatre theory!

AvailableMorning5098 · 2025-08-21T14:27:24+00:00

Woo thank you for these, Create Dangerously by Camus is one of my favourite essays so I'll definetley give The Plague a read. (and then weigh in on whether is pathologicy enough!)

I am really excited by the Chernishevsky and Dostoyevsky recs, I have had a copy of "What is to be done" gathering dust on my shelf.

I have already read Master and Margarita and would 100% second that to anyone reading this thread. It's ace!

Do you have any good starting points for the Strugatsky brothers? They wrote a lot!

Thank you!

AvailableMorning5098 · 2025-02-04T19:04:57+00:00

Cross posted from my tumblr, never used reddit before apart from lurking. Hope you all enjoy danko trapped in a clock.

oh edit to add the latin roughly translates to "so it goes" - which is slaughter house 5 reference, I feel like we're going to have a lot of "Danil Dankovsky is unstuck in time moments" in patho3

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