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Name a book with romance in it that isn't about a woman fixing all of a sad man's problems

>> No.8439664

1984 is about a woman derailing a sad man's problems even further

>> No.8439672

>>8439664
I was about to say this. Although thinking about it she does offer the prospect of fixing his problems. It just doesn't work out so well.

>> No.8440407

Gone Girl
She makes the sad man have even more problems.

>> No.8440702

>>8439644
A Clockwork Orange

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>>8439644

>> No.8440717

>>8439644
Romeo & Juliet

>> No.8440773

>>8439644
Hamlet, though it's not really a book

>> No.8440778

>>8439644
Giovanni's Room

>> No.8440787

Kierkegaard's biography

>> No.8440823

>>8439644
my only problem is not having a woman in my life

>> No.8440839

>>8440773
>not really a book

Do you read it on clay tablets or what?

>> No.8440844

>>8439664

...she fixed his problems. He loved Big Brother now. Now, life is much easier for him. He is at peace. He has no more threats because he himself in not a threat.

>> No.8440969

Whatever by Michael Smellbeoque, also my diary famalam

>> No.8441068

>>8439644
His Dark Materials inb4 genre shit
Any Shakespeare romance
The Divine Comedy

Can't think of anything else.

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>>8439644
How could we go this long without mentioning the elephant in the room.

>> No.8441803

>>8439644
Tender as the Night by FSF

>> No.8441824

>>8439644
Maurice

ba dum tss

>> No.8441829

Ulysses could go either way.

>> No.8441835

Kafka's The Castle, lmao.

Honestly this isn't a v good bait thread I'm having trouble thinking of any decent literary works where the romance plays out the way you describe it, OP.

Even in Victorian lit I feel like more often than not the opposite takes place, where some virgin woman is rescued by Prince Charming.

Maybe what you describe happens more often in YA novels idk I'm not a plebchild

>> No.8441836

>>8441156
Lolita begins as a book about a troubled man who meets his muse, who he thinks will solve his problems, but eventually ends in his demise.

I would also argue that Lolita isn't a true romance. More of a story of one-sided infatuation.

>> No.8441847

Never Let Me Go

>> No.8442132

Madame Bovary...

What kind of stupid thread is this?

>> No.8442134

Kiku's Prayer by Shusaku Endo

>> No.8442142

laughter in the dark

>> No.8442671

>>8439644
The key by junichiro tanizaki