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Just finished Hans Fallada's 'The Drinker'
An autobiographical account of alcoholism then being put in an asylum was never going to be anything other than bleak I suppose... Like the teutonic existentialism of Hesse but without all the flowery tributes to nature or more poetic bits... far more grating-you can't help but get increasingly frustrated with the main character and his misanthropic, egocentric views as he fucks everything up and blames everything on other people, but then he's so pathetic and his life becomes so shit in prison and in the asylum you can't help but reserve a base level of pity.
Very good but glad it is finished-though I'm intrigued enough by Fallada to read 'Every Man Dies Alone' as it is supposed to be excellent, but might leave it a few months till I've read something a bit more upbeat-next on the list is Adolfo Bioy Casares 'The Invention of Morel' for a bit of magical realism...