/lit/ - Literature

people say no longer human but lets be honest, that guy is a chad

kobo abe's the box man

A Season on Earth by Gerald Murnane

Read the first chapter and you will immediately see why I suggest it.

Hunger

>>19793889
Diary of a wimpy kid

Oblomov

Herzog

buddhist literature

>>19793897
>>19793922
I read these books. What do they have to do with being a loser exactly ?

>>19793897
Post an excerpt please desu senpai

>>19793944
You can read the first dozen or so pages on Amazon

It is not the book but the reader

>>19793889
nobody would really lie around next to their piss bottles right...
right?????

>>19793889
The history of France

>>19793889
Bible

>>19793889
Paradise Lost

my diary desu

>>19793897
I got to the second sentence, starting with:
>His friends....
and then stopped reading

>"loser" protagonist
>has a job
>has his own place to live
>has friends
>has sex

>>19794027
serious question. why do you think those things disqualify you from being a loser?

>>19794033
SHUT the fuck up sex haver and give me some books where the protagonist is a REAL fucking loser

>>19793997
The opening is the product of the protagonists imagination, those aren't actual friends

>>19794041
Book of Disquiet

>>19794027
loser is all about perception, not about arbitrary list

you can have all of that and consider yourself a loser

you can have none of that (monk) and consider yourself a winner

>>19794027
what if you had a shitty wagie job, lived in a shitty apartment, had lame friends who inspired nothing in you and a fat pig of a girlfriend? would you not be a loser then?

Being a loser is passive. Aside from writing a Jack Sue type of story where external events are thrust upon the protag, how would it be remotely enjoyable reading about someone who does nothing, whines, and self pities the entire time?

Even catcher in the rye has a more active protagonist than "real losers"
>>19794041

>>19794093
So you want Murukami then.

>>19793894
Interesting point, mind to elaborate?

Bukowski

>>19793889
It's me, Eddie

>>19793889
My Friends (Bove)

>>19794027
Reminds me of the “”loser”” from Norwegian Wood who fucks every woman he meets.

>>19793889
any book by Houellekek

>>19794041

Real losers are unworthy of any attention from society. You're too much of a loser to even be bullied, people just ignore you. Normies have an illusion world of personal relations and communal ideas, and you are not in that space because they do not think you register as fully human. Your destiny is to die, early and unloved, unmourned, unremembered. Even your parents will secretly rejoice. And that's just the nature of sexual selection and genetic differentiation bud. They all secretly want you dead

>>19795911
Look at how angry you are on a Saturday, Mr. Winner.

>>19795911
have sex

>>19793889
Confederacy of Dunces

>>19793889
Notes from the Underground (Dostoyevsky)

>>19793889
Read Henry Miller for turnaroundcore

>>19793889
Robert Walser - The Walk and Helbling's Story
Hermann Ungar - The Maimed

>>19795966

the only good answer in this thread

Any books about losers who are fundamentally broken and end up giving in to their schizo tendencies, so that they don't care anymore about being losers, focus entirely on spiritual pursuits and slowly drift into madness as the average person becomes completely unrelatable to them in every way and they need to constantly wear a mask in order to even function during smalltalk interactions?

>>19795897
>Is the only person to make the girl who kills herself wet
> Has sex with the lesbian
Fuck Murakami and his self inserts

>>19795897
Was he ever even said to be a loser? The story is from his perspective so there isn't really much room for other opinions, but he seemed like he lived an average life, and was thought of as an average guy by others.at worst

>>19793889
Grendel - John Gardner

>>19796096
Temple of the Golden Pavilion

pleasant hell

>>19793889
Factotum by Charles Bukowski

What you probably mean is books dealing with others viewing you as a loser which is the actual problem. I'm coping with this, its hard to not care what others think 9f you desu.

>>19795971
This. This book made me feel called out, and convinced me to finally get my shit together..

>>19793889
Too Loud A Solitude

>>19793894
>thinking that gambling, banging prostitutes, and being a penniless bum makes you a chad

The phenomenology of spirit takes this concept to its logical conclusion.

>>19796986

Less than zero

>>19793889
Bukowski.

>>19793889
How Late It Was, How Late (Kelman)

>>19796096
Mishima's Golden Pavilion

meditations

>>19795966
This one. Quijote is the personification of delusional heroicism, Ahab is the maximum exponent of wasteful vengeance in Moby Dick, and Ignatius J. Reilly is the supreme lord of useless wisemen.

A triumvirate of loosers.

>>19793914
based

>>19793889
Book of Ruth from the Bible

>>19793900
I see you, based Sult reader

>>19795911
Why are you so mean?

>>19793889

64 posts. No Eliot Rodgers.

Here ya go OP.

>>19796478
came here to post this

Suttree

>>19795911
wow take it easy

>>19793916
Oblomov is a chad fuck you

>>19798946
Suttree foregoes an easy and comfortable life in order to live exactly how he wants to. He's not a loser. If you think he's a loser, you fucked up reading the book

>>19795911

>>19793889
No longer human

>>19795911
Right.

>>19795911
refuted by mass shootings

>>19793889
how the fuck has no one said Notes From Underground yet? or Crime and Punishment even.

>>19799955
Did you even read the thread?
>>19795971
>>19796648

>>19793889
The Sorrows of Young Werther, both the protag and the author are major fucking losers and I wish Goethe commited suicide before ever writing anything.

>>19795911
Yeah, and?

4chan.org
He, only half lit, facelessly pondered its existence.
So much had hindered on his success, but here he was, back again, on the doorstep of an internet madhouse — did he, could he, have anyone else to blame but himself? For these despicable sins commited against himself, inflicted by himself?
Yes.
There was blame to be had, but not to be placed. There was things to do, but not to be done. How moving, the skyline, he thought. From here, you can only watch the world.

>>19799955
>Crime and Punishment
Is handsome and has a cute girl waiting for his return. He us not a loser.

Joyce's A Little Cloud

r9k threads

>>19795966
This. 4chan the man.

>>>/r9k/67126456

>>19799542
>Oblomov has a Chad friend that gets him laid and savages his ruined land
>even then he manages to fuck up with former
FTFY

Book of disquiet

>>19793889

Al Qur'an

>>19798640
thats my diary desu

>>19793889
In Search Of Lost Time

houellebecq

>>19800244
Goethe buying the wedding rings for his oneitis and her husband is one of my favourite literary tragedies

>>19794795
chad of a person but his books were like listening to a drunk old man exaggerating how good his youth was and how he fucked many beautiful women.