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Best portrayals of social anxiety in literature?

That chapter about sweating in The Pale King was pretty on the mark.

>> No.2848329

Try the other New Autists, and maybe some other DFW texts.

Tao Lin probably has something on being socially idiotic; I can't be bothered to read his oeuvre.

>> No.2848367

>>2848329
not "awkwardness" (quirky affected tics by hipsters), i mean proper anxiety and agoraphobia.

>> No.2848381

>>2848367
Perhaps you should actually read Tao Lin's work. If there's one thing he manages to pull off, it's communicating the terror and neuroses of everyday communication.

>> No.2848741

Hunger, somewhat

>> No.2848745

Franz Kafka's your man.

>> No.2849249

>>2848741
was expecting his to drop spaghetti at the end of every paragraph.

go for this OP

>> No.2849292

>>2848316
The double.

>> No.2849299

How has no-one said Notes From Underground yet?

What a vile man

>> No.2849303

The Double by Dostoevsky.

>> No.2849332

>>2849303
The only good thing about the Double is the fish cakes part. 80% of the story is boring garbage.

>> No.2849341

>>2849332
I had a pretty good time reading it, simply because of how fucking retarded Golyadkin was.
It was my first Dostoevsky, too, so it was a nice, light-hearted step into his works.
I smiled each time he referred to him as "our hero."

>> No.2849337

>>2849303
Anything by Dostoevsky really

>> No.2849366

>>2848316
Oh god, that chapter was painful to read. My anxiety has never been that bad, but I could still imagine exactly how he felt.