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14612627 No.14612627 [Reply] [Original]

What person, real or fictitious, is or was the Joker of literature?

>> No.14612643

>>14612627
The author of Notes from Underground.

>> No.14612651

>>14612627
Gargantua and Pantagruel

>> No.14612656

>>14612627
Voltaire

>> No.14612729
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14612729

This nigga right here.

>> No.14612777

It would have to be someone who was cynical about all ideologies and systems and just wanted to see the world burn. An egoist. Maybe Stirner but Stirner is kind of chill. Someone more destructive.

>> No.14612794

>>14612643
So... Dostoyevsky or the underground man?

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>>14612627
Frankenstein's monster. There was a similar thread to this a few days ago so I'll reiterate what I said.
>Rejected by a corrupt society
>Leads him to kill those who've wronged him
>Wants gf
>Isolated and ridiculed
>Originally well meaning
>People made uneasy by his appearance

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14613488

>>14612627

Kurtz

>> No.14613832

>>14612627
buck mulligan