/lit/ - Literature

>>20528322
my diary desu :3

>>20528322
the very hungry caterpillar
100 years of solitude (presumably)
the old man and the sea

>>20528322

— Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
More or less.

— Pincher Martin (William Golding)
Sailor in WWII, his ship gets torpedoed, he swims to a tiny island and tries to survive. There are flashbacks and a coda but he's alone throughout the main narrative.

— I Am Legend (Richard Matheson)
More or less.

— The Unnameable (Samuel Beckett)
If you last more than two pages you're a better man than I am, Gunga Din. (If you want a play rather than a novel, Krapp's Last Tape is much more readable one-character Beckett.)


>>20528579
>100 years of solitude (presumably)
hahaha

>>20528579
>100 years of solitude (presumably)
Went into it hoping it was, but it wasn't

reality
I am the only character

Not one of his better efforts

>>20528322
>>20528637
A good one I forgot:

— Wittgenstein's Mistress (David Markson)
Woman is all alone in the world. She types out individual statements in the style of Wittgenstein's Tractatus. It's quite fun in a quirky way.

>>20528322
Solipsist by Fredric Brown
All you, zombies by Robert A. Henlein.

>>20528322
the very hungry caterpillar
100 years of solitude (presumably)
the old man and the sea

Madness of the Day by Blanchot

>>20528322
Your diary desu

>>20528322
mdd

Didn't realise it was so hard for people to write stories with only one character

>>20528322
Yo el supremo

>>20528579
>>20530174

What the fuck is going on with these continually repeated posts?

>>20534111
I've noticed it in other threads too, might be a bot

The Fall by Camus

>>20534111
I figured it was some dumb meme

>>20528322
You

Notes from Underground

>>20528322
there are probably video games like this, they are technically fiction

>>20528322
My diary.

>>20528579
>100 years of solitude (presumably)
it doesn't.

>>20528322
walden?

Pessoa book of disquiet.
Song of Maldoror

>>20535554
>Song of Maldoror
Best translation of this? Hard to find a comparison online

>>20534111
I didn't post it twice, that's for sure.

>>20536656

I read the Penguin Knight once which was the basis for my overhauling of the Wikipedia article, but I put it down halfway through for a period of a few months before completing it. It sounds like other translations are better or just, y'know, learn French.

>>20534484
This VN more or less does it

Notes from Underground.

>>20538005
Oh, I found a comparison here
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProsePorn/comments/521mtz/les_chants_de_maldoror_by_comte_de_lautr%C3%A9amont/
I think I like Dent's the best, so I guess I'll read that. I do plan to learn French at some point, but I'm already learning Japanese. Seems like an interesting novel, thanks for mentioning it here

>>20536656
Lykiard's is generally taken to be the best. He points out several blatant mistakes in the others.

>>20528579
It apparently counts as solitude if every other character has the same name as you

>>20528579
>100 years of solitude (presumably)
no lol
it does however have like 10 characters that have the same name as previous characters

>>20528579
>>20528724
should've called it 100 years of multitude amirite?

>>20534111
GPT-3

>>20528322
Fight Club

>>20528579
>>20530174

What the fuck is going on with these continually repeated posts?

>>20529197
Should I read the Tractatus before reading this? It's currently on my shelf and I've been hesitating to read it.

>>20540442
you can find it online where you can click on all main points which then unfold into subpoints. takes two minutes if you only speedrun through the main points.

>>20538633
>He points out several blatant mistakes in the others.
Yeah, but that was back in 1970, no?