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Books like Heart of Darkness 1899
Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Heart of Darkness
Books closest to Heart of Darkness
Owls Do Cry 1957Also grave, contemplative and prestige
Malina 1971Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Dora Bruder 1997Also grave, contemplative and prestige
Une saison dans la vie d'Emmanuel 1965Also grave, contemplative and prestige
A Pale View of Hills 1982Also grave, contemplative and prestige
A Mercy 1998Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Wide Sargasso Sea 1966Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Juneteenth 1999Also grave, contemplative and prestige
Go Tell It on the Mountain 1952Also grave, earnest and prestige
El llano en llamas 1953Also grave, prestige and earnest
The Sheltering Sky 1948Also grave, prestige and contemplative
A gesture life 1999Also grave, earnest and contemplative
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 1983Also grave, contemplative and prestige
No End 1985Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Fateless 2005Also grave, contemplative and prestige
Games
Désiré 2016Also grave, contemplative and prestige
Dull Grey 2019Also grave, contemplative and prestige
The Stillness of the Wind 2019Also grave, contemplative and earnest
Series
Aoi Bungaku Series 2009Also grave, prestige and earnest
The Narrow Road to the Deep North 2025Also grave, contemplative and earnest
Dekalog 1989Also grave, prestige and contemplative
Albums
- Last 2011Also grave, earnest and contemplative
- False Lankum 2023Also grave, earnest and contemplative
- White Chalk 2007Also grave, contemplative and earnest
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