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Anonymous Wed Jul 7 18:44:05 2021 No.18608892 [Reply] [Original]

Are there any books about a character who becomes jaded and introverted and essentially retreats into a life of solitude?

This isn't just a feels-related post, I'm genuinely curious about a book like this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 18:45:57 2021 No.18608897 Just read all of Herman Hesse. Start with Steppenwolf or Siddhartha (would probably be better if you read the Dhammapada first)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 18:49:18 2021 No.18608911 >>18608892 A lot of Kobo Abe books have his narrators do this but they are usually forced into isolation by some outside force or accident

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 18:52:10 2021 No.18608917 Against Nature by Huysmans' may be what you're looking fkr

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 18:54:50 2021 No.18608930 Against Nature by Huysmans may be what you're looking for.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 18:59:39 2021 No.18608957 >>18608892 Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 19:00:44 2021 No.18608960 >>18608897 is herman hesse compareable to hquellebcqc, and if so how? i love the french frogs suicidal writing

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 19:14:57 2021 No.18609020 >>18608892 Perfume, Patrick Suskind. Go away

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 19:17:14 2021 No.18609027 >>18608892 My diary desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 19:40:06 2021 No.18609108 File: 1.14 MB, 1904x3028, the stranger.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18608892

Anonymous Wed Jul 7 23:27:17 2021 No.18610168

>>18608892
Is there a writer that captures the milieu of 4chan more than Houellebecq? Something about Houllebecq is so easy for me to read, but I don't exactly feel like it's high literature. I can barely ever finish a book but elementary particles I read in a few days. The last time I felt that way was >>18608957 or Bataille. I'm not sure if it's the sex or the alienation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 7 23:28:18 2021 No.18610175 >>18608930 Is against nature the one where he is describing his house? how long does it take to get into it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 8 01:39:02 2021 No.18610807 >>18609108 thats so icy

Anonymous Thu Jul 8 07:09:07 2021 No.18611751

>>18610175
The whole book pretty much takes place in his house and there is no real plot persay. Most of the book is filled with him making stylistic choices about his house, relating old stories about people he used to know, and heavily critiquing other art and literature. If you think you'll enjoy that, then the book gets into itself pretty quickly as you immediately start getting a feel for Des Esseintes' mind and some of the introductory stories are very entertaining. That being said, the book certainly isn't for everyone and the a lot of people find this format boring.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 8 08:13:50 2021 No.18611949 File: 118 KB, 748x489, 1594432266933.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18609108 >El Camús de Alberto Estraño

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 8 09:47:31 2021 No.18612308 la sombra del cipres es alargada

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 8 14:13:06 2021 No.18613382 >>18608892 The Fall by camus

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