/lit/ - Literature

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The whole point of the Stranger it's a character study analyzing if it is legitimate to kill somebody. That's literally the only thing Camus cared about; in "the Myth of Sisyphus" he's asking if it's legitimate to kill oneself, in "the Just Assassins" he's asking if it's legitimate to kill a monarch, in "The Rebel" he's asking if it's legitimate to kill for the revolution, in "the Stranger" he's asking if it's legitimate to kill somebody else just for the sake of it.
That's literally all there is in Camus, he even said it himself, and if you didn't noticed yet, the answer to all those questions it's just "no", according to him it's not legitimate to kill anybody, not even oneself (we should imagine Sisyphus happy).

If you want to read a story about an absolutely delusional incel that hates his life, it's broke as fuck, but still believes he's going to make it as a writer because he reads things that he actually does not understand (a.k.a. your average /lit/ poster), read John Fante's "Bandini Quartet": "The Road to Los Angeles", "Wait Until Spring, Bandini", "Ask the Dust" and "Dreams of Bunker Hill".

Fante
Just finished Ask the Dust. I really enjoyed reading it. What else should I read that is in a similar vein? I know Fante frequently gets roped in with Bukowski (at least by Bukowski) but I think Fante's Italian Catholic background strongly shapes his writing. Looking for more American lit from a similar milieu.

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