/lit/ - Literature

Are there any good books that take close friendship as a central theme? It could be between two guys or between a guy and a girl (with the requisite sexual tension).

It strikes me that much of literature doesn't deal with the subject. Maybe because writers don't have friends? I've been reading the letters of a great writer and in it he says to his editor that he never had a good friend until he met him. I found this striking, and also rather moving, that such a thoughtful man never formed a close bond with anyone else before.

I have a very close friend that I've been struggling to comes to term with recently. Sometimes we fight, sometimes we fuck, sometimes we just sit and listen to each other. We also both share a passion for literature. I'm trying to get to understand the nature of our relationship better since I struck me that I really don't understand the concept of friendship at all.

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