What book that deals with a descent into deep darkness, either evil or just loss of sense of self, is more iconic?
The options are:
The Black Book:
By Orhan Pamuk, it tells the story of a lawyer who after the disappearance of his wife descends into the deepest, scariest secrets of his city and seemingly humanity
The Sheltering Sky:
By Paul Bowles, tells the story of a couple who goes to the Sahara to find themselves, only to get completely lost in it
Moby Dick
By Herman Melville, tells the story of a captain obsessed with getting "revenge" on a whale, with a resolve that leads to dark consequences
Heart of Darkness
By Joseph Conrad, tells the story of an explorer who descends deep in the African rainforest and where the boundary of right and wrong become dangerously thin
Choose wisely
The GP knows none of these except Moby Dick
