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Is there a book out there where the main character incidentally comes across a person/people throughout his life/book in need of help (either emotionally or anything trivial) and makes their day/life better with the advice he gives or opens up a whole new perspective for them. I hope I don't get any flack but I was thinking about a Mushi-shi type of novel or like a Gospel type of story.

If there isn't maybe I'll start one myself, under a different name, if it's shit which is often the case.

>> No.12772555

Narcissus and Goldmund

>> No.12772563

>>12772099
Too bad this kind of thing only happens in books.

>> No.12772568

Brothers Karamazov book 10

>> No.12772582

>>12772099
There is an incredible scene like that in Diary of a Country Priest.

Dostoievsky's novels are full of those kind of encounters (Tolstoy on the other hand seem to have many characters talking half-past each other).

>> No.12772585

Does Kokoro fit your description?

>> No.12772607

Notes From the Underground

>> No.12772620

>>12772607
It didnt happen there

>> No.12772629

>>12772099
try watching violet evergarden

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>>12772555
Thanks, I'm liking the premise

>>12772563
Yes, but I guess as long as you can help one person you've done enough. I come across some people but I can't always do anything to help them. Sometimes I think I'm doing them a favor but end up making things worse. At times it becomes exhausting and I just end up feeling terrible and avoid helping. Maybe a book might give me that escapism I need.

>>12772582
I have some of Bresson's movies on my watchlist. I'll look into Dostoyevsky, I always assumed his books were depressing (which can work with what I'm looking for).

>>12772607
It does in the exploration of looking for meaning in things but I'm somewhat put of by different cultures, I know this takes place around the early 1900's or I think the modernization of Japan. I was maybe looking for something more modern you know. But thanks.

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>>12772654
Meant to reply to this
>>12772585

>> No.12772685

>>12772629
Lol, I have this and a silent voice on a watchlist

>> No.12772719 [DELETED] 

>>12772099
Siddhartha. Maybe too obvious, but seems like a prime example of what you're looking for
Don Quixote
Baudolino, if you're really in it for this kind of thing happening constantly, and resolving itself on an extended time frame (bit of a slog, though)

[Spoiler] props for my favorite of big T's work

>> No.12772728

>>12772099 (OP) #
Siddhartha. Maybe too obvious, but seems like a prime example of what you're looking for
Don Quixote
Baudolino, if you're really in it for this kind of thing happening constantly, and resolving itself on an extended time frame (bit of a slog, though)

>> No.12772961

>>12772099
The new testament is full of that.

>> No.12774133

The whole of The Idiot.