/lit/ - Literature

So does he find the lost time in the end?

>tfw my self-published Conan the Librarian series was taken down from Amazon for copyright infringement

Books about escaping the mind prison

>be me
>31
>work part-time, live at home
>live a very cheap lifestyle mainly reading and doing stuff alone
>know people look down on me because of this
>know that women especially find someone like me repulsive and pitiful
>felt bad before and desperately tried to sacrifice my time and energy to fit in
>gradually starting to care less and less
>almost feel at east and contented with my peaceful, quiet, boring, relatively ascetic lifestyle

Are there any books about overcoming societal pressure and being at ease with yourself?

Anybody else here feel that "real life" (i.e. the material, non-digital / virtual world) is increasingly "cringe"?

It feels like reality is turning into a mixture of an industrial wasteland (e.g. warehouses for supplies), characterless living zones, and a kind of Ye Olde fake tourist town to desperately attract people there from the internet.

I've been reading some literary biographies recently (H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Philip K. Dick, etc) and one thing they all have in common is how energetic and interconnected the real world was. Like, if they were interested in literature they could go to a store in town and find magazines related to that niche, or they could correspond with or join an existing literary community dedicated to that niche, whose members lived in various parts of the country. When they submitted work for publication, their rejections were not cold and impersonal, but rather encouraging and full of advice etc. It feels like the world I am reading about has been neutered, lobotomized, or hollowed out. Where before there were hundreds of invisible strands in a person's life connecting them with others and with the world in general, it feels like the internet has pretty much reduced the number of strands to the minimum amount. There is no energy in real life any more.

People talk about neoliberalism, mass migration etc as having a massive influence on social relations and contributing to the atomisation of society, but I can't help but feel that there is something in the future that is sucking us towards it from the real (or even from the spiritual, per da gnooostics), via the digital, into the virtual, etc.

Are there any books on these issues?