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What is some literature with the theme Man vs. Nature.

>> No.16521580

>>16521563
Jack London's works

>> No.16521679

>>16521563
Moby Dick

>> No.16521697

>>16521580
>>16521679
No Americans please.

>> No.16521708

Robinson Crusoe

>> No.16521887

I'm more interest in man against author. Legitimely can't think of an example aside from don Quijote and that would be a stretch

>> No.16521933

>>16521679
This is only an aside as the true theme from OP’s grid is a combination of vs god and vs no god

>> No.16521945

>>16521563
Late capitalism.

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16521960

>>16521563
It's 3rd down on my to-read list.

https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfred-Lansing/dp/0465062881

>> No.16522001

>>16521563
The Old man and the Sea

>> No.16522037

Walden, Frankenstein.

>> No.16522049

>>16521887
Same

>> No.16522098

what about nature vs reality? technology vs society? author vs self? god vs no god?

>> No.16522116

>>16521887
I've gotten a "man vs author" feeling from some of Pynchon's books. The part in lot 49 where the hairspray can is whizzing around the room and Oedipa thinks about all the calculations that some "god" would have to make to "plot" out the chaotic path of the can — that scene made me think of the author as the "god" of the world controlling the "plot" of the book.

>> No.16522150

>>16521697
Horcynus Orca

>> No.16522180

>>16521887
i think it lends itself better to other mediums like film (Blazing Saddles, Monty Python & The Holy Grail, Rejected by Dan Hertzfeld, Stranger Than Fiction)
Deadpool
Sophie's World, Redshirts

>> No.16522208

>>16521563
Lennigen versus the Ants

>> No.16522218

You ever read Hatchet ? My side of the mountain ?

>> No.16522248

>>16521887
Read At Swim-Two-Birds

>> No.16522267

>DQ is pretty much all of these

How in the hell did he do it

>> No.16522288

if you have a moment give this a read. its a good one
https://americanliterature.com/author/jack-london/short-story/to-build-a-fire

>> No.16522541

>>16521887
Anons give a lot of examples that miss the point in these threads. Author himself must literally be the antagonist and the character must be aware of it, anything else is stretching it.

>> No.16522549

>>16521563
hemmmmingway

>> No.16523318

>>16521887
House of Leaves

>> No.16523355

>>16521563
The bit in the illiad were achilles is fighting a river

>> No.16523381

>>16521887
screwtape letters. that being said, it's a completely reddit concept and is cringe. C.S. Lewis is in hell for not being catholic and also for being cringe.

>> No.16524941

How come Man vs. Nature is a classic conflict, but people here are only recommending literature from the last two centuries?

>> No.16525023

>>16521563
Epic of Gilgamesh

>> No.16525419

>>16522288
That and Leaf by Niggle are my two favorite short stories.

>> No.16525447

>>16521887
Homestuck

>> No.16525487

>>16521887
That one book by Calvino that talks about itself and berates you

>> No.16525564

>>16522267
By failing upwards

>> No.16525580

>>16521887
Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno

>> No.16526265

>>16525487
love that one