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Fiction about self betterment Anonymous Tue Aug 14 06:04:20 2018 No.11619558 [Reply] [Original]

Give me a list of fiction (no philosophy) about a main character who is lost, weak and formless who manages to forge a path forward, reinventing themselves and transcending their weaknesses in the process.

Real zero to hero stuff.

Asking for a friend.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 06:28:32 2018 No.11619608 read all of schopenhaeur and then you're done

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 07:28:24 2018 No.11619739 >>11619608 >fiction >(no philosophy)

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 09:30:19 2018 No.11620019 >>11619558 A Christmas Carol :D

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 13:26:18 2018 No.11620776 >>11619739 Philosophy is fiction

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 14:14:33 2018 No.11620998 >>11619558 sidhartha

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 14:30:46 2018 No.11621087 >>11619558 how the steel was tempered

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 14:39:08 2018 No.11621118 >>11620998 ye

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 14:43:48 2018 No.11621151 >>11620998 Literally the opposite of what OP asked for but in a positive eastern way

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 14:56:16 2018 No.11621211 >>11619558 Naruto

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 16:56:45 2018 No.11621807 Is there really no fiction that fits this criteria? It seems to be such a common trope in our culture (Memerson's whole schtick is based around it), I'm surprised there aren't more actual examples of it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 16:59:37 2018 No.11621823 >>11621807 It's called bildungsroman, an entire genre.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 17:08:26 2018 No.11621867 Twin Peaks sucks

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 17:11:37 2018 No.11621885 >>11621823 That just means coming of age.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 17:27:41 2018 No.11621980 Parzival (by Eschenbach) Crime and Punishment Brothers Karamazov King Lear (Edgar especially) Pilgrim’s Progress Divine Comedy (in part) The Power and the Glory Lord Jim Great Gatsby (this trope as tragedy) The Magic Mountain

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 17:40:51 2018 No.11622051 >>11621885 exactly

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 14 17:47:58 2018 No.11622100 >>11621980 War and Peace Silas Marner Confessions by Augustine

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