/lit/ - Literature

i love lit but i have never really been able to connect with character. growing up on movies i think i became used to the character as embodied by the human subject, it's the same with theatre, photography, painting, the eyes.
for me characters in literature are always more representation than actual humans, symbol, rather than dynamic being. only the most idiosyncratic or bold characters like Don Quixote, Hamlet, or Stephen Dedalus really take root in my mind as individuals but still not as human beings.

thoughts? is it autism?

>>6692051
>19
>a portrait of the artist as a young man

my first time reading joyce, kind of underwhelming. i do enjoy his prose and can relate to stephen on some level, but i'm not enjoying it as much as i thought i would.