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Any good books out there about accepting loneliness & isolation? Or, just protagonists that try & fail to make meaningful relationships. Something that fits this criteria, /lit/ help a person out.

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>>11213285
Honestly this. It may seem like a basic request, but it feels like I've read a lot of stuff but I've never really found something that really plunges into extreme loneliness and the failure to have meaningful relationships. Of course there's notes from the underground and the elementary particles, but I am not resentful like the underground man, and I honestly cannot relate fully to the loneliness of the characters of elementary particles. but anyway I recommend those two books, and I want to see what anyone else has to say on this matter.

>> No.11213375

>>11213359
i just thought of:
araby
a painful case
uncle vanya
the seagull
pnin
stoner ?
winesburg, ohio (but i thought this was too subtle)
the overcoat
misery (chekhov story)
good old neon

>> No.11213386

No longer human

>> No.11213736

>>11213285
Suicide (Leve)
My Friends
Book of Disquiet
Unironically The Young Hitler I Knew

>> No.11214599

>>11213386
Now this one is good.

>> No.11214937

DSM-5, Cluster A

>> No.11215178

>>11213285
>>11213359
What about no longer human?
Literally about a person who feels so different from everyone else they feel inhuman. Of course this causes extreme loneliness that he tries to remedy but inevitably fails at.