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Anonymous Mon Feb 19 17:19:45 2018 No.10725591 [Reply] [Original]

What are some works of literary merit with absent minded/anxious characters?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 17:22:00 2018 No.10725609 >>10725591 Only books with literary merit is with white male characters, who exhibit virtue, nationalism, and disdain of women and nonwhites. Has to be an anti-semite too

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 17:25:29 2018 No.10725628 >>10725609 Underage love interest is needed too

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 17:27:06 2018 No.10725641 >>10725628 >spotted the libcuck degenerate back to ribbit, son

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 17:47:22 2018 No.10725794 >>10725591 >The Catcher In The Rye >Alice In Wonderland (Alice isn't especially anxious but the March Hare is) Of course most absent-minded/anxious characters will be women. Examples: >Northanger Abbey >Mansfield Park >Jane Eyre

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 17:50:55 2018 No.10725819 Knut Hamsun, Hunger Sartre's Nausea, I guess

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 17:52:54 2018 No.10725832 >>10725794 Salinger is quite big on absent-mindedness and/or anxiety. As well as the obvious Mr Holden C, we have: >Franny & Zooey >Seymour: An Introduction >Raise High The Roof Beams Carpenters >For Esme With Love And Squalor

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 18:36:38 2018 No.10726123 >>10725832 >Seymour: An Introduction This is one of the best things I've read yet it seems to be universally hated by everyone. Am I a pleb?

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 18:37:57 2018 No.10726131 Waiting for godot

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 18:43:47 2018 No.10726172 >>10726123 Salinger is one of those writers who can seem godlike if he catches you in the right mood, but after a while you realise he is a bit limited.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 20:23:39 2018 No.10726687 File: 8 KB, 208x250, 1518740449032.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10725794 >Of course most absent-minded/anxious characters will be women.

>>	Anonymous Mon Feb 19 20:24:44 2018 No.10726697 Kafka's works

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