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Hey, pretentious pseudo intellectual neckbeards. I am looking for a novel that portrays a protagonist that is good at everything, but doesn't care about anything.

Thanks.

Hitchens unrelated because he is clearly not /lit/

>> No.1928361
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1928361

Projecting much, OP?

>> No.1928364

I forget his name, but try The Epic of Gilgamesh.

>> No.1928366

Lord of Monte Christos

>> No.1928371

Fight Club

>> No.1928372

>>1928366
Count, actually

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>>1928361

No, I don't own a beard. Too young.

I was thinking more along the lines of L'Étranger, but then again Meursault was a faggot

>> No.1928374

>>1928359

Murakami's protagonists are usually pretty careless and they are always very smart so they get all the girls and solve social adventure puzzles with sheep and a tree. Also, Jonathan Safran Foer's books have protagonists that are himself, and he really likes himself so they can do anything but they are also very full of care because he is very narcissisistic and likes to QQ about everything actually dont read his books they are very gay and make you wash yourself after finishing them.

>> No.1928383

>>1928373

Don Juan, by Lord Byron
Eugene Onegin, by Alexander Pushkin
Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov
The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern

>> No.1928385

>>1928383
Oblomov is only good at taking naps. That's a very specific skill, not what OP is looking for in my opinion.

>> No.1928388

>>1928385

Hmm. Okay. Locus Solus, by Raymond Roussel.

>> No.1928389

What about Don Quichot, he's very good at everything ehehehehe and hehe he doesnt care about anything aaahahaha hahahahahha ahahahahhahha

>> No.1928408

Didn't you do this same thread a couple of days ago?

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my autobiography

>mfw

>> No.1928458

>>1928373
Meursault wasn't all that good at avoiding being senteced to death

>> No.1928488

>>1928458
Or anything, really...

>> No.1928521

>>1928458
>Implying he gave a fuck

>> No.1928535

sounds like the semi-main character of the short book Rumble Fish.
coppola made a movie of it(quite good) if you're lazy

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sherlock holmes

good at:
- staff/cane-based combat
- martial arts, boxing
- violin
- cryptography
- swords
- chemistry
- logic
- disguises
- Parthian shots
- BEES

does not give a fuck about:
- literature. yea he'll spring some Shakespeare or Goethe on your ass when you least expect it, but i guarantee he dont give a shit
- philosophy
- astronomy
- politics
- food
- bitches
- the police

>> No.1928555

harlots web

>> No.1928560

>>1928535
It does. I agree, OP.

>> No.1928566

Pechorin from A Hero of our Times by Lermontov. The only Russian novelist/prose writer worth a fucking damn.