It seems that since
The World's second unsuccessful suicide attempt every work of classic
literature is very
dark. Most are
satire or
dystopian.
For example:
Catch 22, The Catcher in the Rye, anything by Kurt Vonnegut. Neuromancer. Snow Crash. Any other cyberpunk. Then all the way over to John Steinbeck or Arthur Miller. 1984. Animal Farm. Brave New World. Fahrenheit 451. Anything by Philip K. Dick. Most of Heinlein.
Perhaps its just my taste but I cant think of a single major utopian in the Engish language in the last 100 years. Most writers seem pretty sick of life. The Cold War cannot explain this completely can it?
Can anyone shed some light to this idea or give some counterexamples? (or more dark examples)