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>see enough of yourself in the protagonist that it makes you feel physical pain and you have to stop reading

>> No.18997132

>>18997125
>see enough of yourself in the protagonist
>keep reading so you can understand your own psychology better and utilize it against others

>> No.18997133

Yeah Mein Kampf will do that to you.

>> No.18997171

>see myself in the antagonist

>> No.18997187

Yeah when I read the illiad

>> No.18997197

>>18997187
There are no protagonists in the iliad

>> No.18997210

>>18997125
This was A Confederacy of Dunces for me. No work of fiction has made me laugh and cringe to the extent that book did.

>> No.18997212

>>18997197
There is when I read it pussy

>> No.18997268

>>18997125
When I was in high school, this was me and the monster in Frankenstein.

>> No.18997692

>>18997125
>physically pained to behold your own self
Vile freak scum in perpetual denial

>> No.18999034

Picrel is Zizek

>> No.18999611

>>18997133
I´m not a successful revolutionary though.

>> No.18999876

>>18997125
>>18997132
I was particularly sympathetic to the protagonist of No Longer Human and I do believe that reflecting on myself throught this character has actually helped me to some degree.

>> No.18999943

>>18997212
fuckin lol