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Pechorin

Hmm he would probably be like Pechorin

>>19583365
He would be an incel who got rejected by Stacy in high school but then a Chad after fucking lots of hookers in SEA or something.

literally me

Kyle Rittenhouse

>>19583365
That Raniere guy who made a cult

>>19583365
A Twitter poster with 5000 followers. He manages to get sex from his selfies, and eventually has a fued with another Twitter poster who keeps replying to him too much. They challenge each other to a fight, but it eventually dies down and never happens.

Patrick Bateman

I just read this book a couple days ago, read it all in one night, fucking awesome. Other books of the same vibe? Other than Eugene Ogenin

>>19584005
god-tier shitpost, intentional or not

>>19583365
probably someone like Sam Hyde idk, definitely not an incel like some anons here always imply

>>19584064
Sam Hyde can only fuck uggos and trannies, he's a dysgenic loser with a low IQ and no motivation.

>>19583365
Pechorin represents the so-called "superfluous man". This character has been a fixed entity in our society over the last halfdozen centuries, at least since the Renaissance.

This novel really spoke to me during a course I took in the mid-2000s on "the history of the novel". We read about 10 of the greats from the 19th century and put them into historical context.

This novel did a great job of describing the deep fractures within Russian society that led to their own sort of Sonderweg towards a violent revolution and upheaval.

Cultural mores weren't at the level they've reached today, but at the time, I thought Pechorin's decadence reflected a the same sort of yolo culture that seemed prevalent on college campuses during the 2000s. The feats of drinking, the tailgaiting, the efforts made by fraternities to win the affections of the sororities, it all seemed superfluous. I think pechorin would be a frat boy.

>>19584077
Pechorin is a kind of sociopath really. He does have some emotions and empathy but they're buried pretty deep beneath scorn and hedonism and pride. He feels bad mostly only for himself in the end, despite doing a ton of terrible stuff.

>>19584094
Agreed, but it's the Russian Ruling Class Ethos that makes him act like this. Society expects him to treat people like shit.

>>19583365
he would post on /lit/. probably under a beautiful and alluring but simultaneously dangerous name like LeSilkySnake

>>19584077
>muh Sonderweg

>>19583365
That guy