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ITT: Male narrators written by women or female narrators written by men.

>> No.12646507

women can't write male characters

>> No.12646509

My diary desu

>> No.12646510
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>>12646497
FN-MW

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>>12646497

>> No.12646547

>>12646507
Willa Catheter disagrees.

>> No.12646553

>>12646547
Fuck you, autocorrect.

>> No.12647125

>>12646497
Frankenstein

>> No.12647137

>>12646509
philip larkin pls go

>> No.12647305

>>12647125
Oooh, didn't think of that one.

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>>12646547
>Willa Catheter

>> No.12647388

>>12646497
family happines tolstoy

>> No.12647390

>>12646507
this. They try but their boobs get in the way.

>> No.12647406

Last chapter of Ulysses by jimmy joy

>> No.12647412

The Good Earth

>> No.12647501

>>12646507
Brideshead Revisited was good tho

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>>12646497

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>>12646497
Blast from the past, kapow you're welcome

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>>12646497
Male writer, intersex narrator raised as female until teenage years.

>> No.12647673

>>12646497
Goethe, Confessions of a Beautiful Soul

>> No.12647791

>>12646507
Carson McCullers wrote one of the greatest male characters of all time - Jake Blount.

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>>12647791

>> No.12647810

>>12647808
sry meants to >> op

>> No.12647867

>>12647808
That cover hurts my eyes.

>> No.12647879

>>12647501
That's not by a woman author.

>> No.12647895

>>12647879
What do you mean?

>> No.12647944

>>12647895
The post it was responding to was about women writers, but that book is written by a man.

>> No.12647948

>>12647501
lel

>> No.12647950

>>12646497
shit book

>> No.12648595

>>12647950
Boo!

>> No.12648699

>>12646507
Read Aracoeli by Elsa Morante and come back.

>> No.12648727

>>12647501
Lmao
>>12646497
The Secret History by Donna Tartt

>> No.12648789

>>12646497
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar

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Pic related is pretty solid

>> No.12649275

>>12646497
>>12646507
Marguerite Yourcenar.
(The Abyss, Memoirs of Hadrian)
OK she was an aristocratic lesbian so she had an unfair advantage, but hey...

>> No.12649279

>>12647660
sounds gay. read Wasp factory instead.

>> No.12649302

>>12647950

I did not enjoy it either, but I can’t call it shit because parts of it are memorable.

>> No.12649322

>>12648727
Good book, but Richard is hardly a protag worth praising.

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>>12647501
What did he mean by this?

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>woman writes 800 page novel about a jew
So I expect /lit/ loves this

>> No.12650365

>>12649275
Why would a lesbian know more about men?

>> No.12650371

>>12649279
How is that relevant?

>> No.12650393

>>12646507
This. They don't understand what manliness is other than big muscles. They don't understand the fundamental values that makes a man a man.

>> No.12650429

>>12649279
SPOILERS

>> No.12650464

>>12650365
eh, you haven't lived, have you?

>> No.12651647

>>12647125
Solid refutation. Loved that book.

>> No.12651652

>>12650371
See>>12650429.

>> No.12651659

>>12650393
>They don't understand the fundamental values that makes a man a man.
And what, pray tell, is the universal consensus on what these values are?

>> No.12651669

>>12651659
Manly virtues include honor, loyalty, bravery, etc. This is one of the reasons that men enjoy movies and history about war much more.

>> No.12651891

>>12647125
Isn't Frankenstein a special case, considering the involvement of Percy Shelley?

>> No.12651903

>>12646547
>Willa Catheter
based
I agree though. I've only read The Professor's House, but I thought it was fantastic. It's been a while so I don't remember if the narration is first or third person, but anyway, the male characters were good I thought. She and Flannery O'Connor are the only female authors I've really enjoyed. I guess I should read >>12647791

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>>12647879
>>12647895

>> No.12653139

>>12646507
FPBP

>> No.12653177

>>12651891

The extent of his involvement was getting his ass kicked in a spooky story competition among friends.

>> No.12653248

>>12646497
>male narrators written by women
I want more of these, preferably by women before this century.

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>>12646497

>> No.12654152

>>12646507
21st c female authors: *makes all the male characters mean stupid or unhelpful*
also 21st c female authors: men can't write women lol breasted boobily xD