Suggest some authors of pessimistic bent

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Seems to have been a temporary affliction, I guess I'm better now.

I watched this today

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDM4ybnCqYY&feature=relmfu

War Photographer. A film about James Nachtwey the (anti)war photographer. An incredible man and a harrowing wander through the abyss. It's a pretty sharp anathema to some of the confectionery miserablism that's been put forward on this list by myself and others too - with exceptions of course - but I don't see it as an alien inception into the argument here.

Joesph Conrad's Victory, infamously starting and ending with the secret phrase "there is... nothing," is worth mentioning.

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