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Ayo, /lit/,

So like many of you, I've been working on a short story under the delusion that I'm capable of writing fiction. In the story I'm working on, the narrator is solitary for about half of the story. As I am editing, I feel like my story reads like the drive through lane in the movie Dude, Where's My Car ("And then, and then, and theeeeeen"). I was wondering if you guys knew off-hand any short stories or novellas in which the narrator (or a single character if written in the third person) spends a significant amount of the story by himself or herself that I might use as a reference. I have some interjections of inner dialogue and emotion, but I'd really like the narrator's descriptions of his surroundings and his remembered anecdotes to reveal most of his personality and character. As it stands, the story is around eighty-five hundred words. Thanks in advance.

>> No.3349692
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3349692

Bamping on account of ineffectual use of the google.

>> No.3349727

The Old Man and the Sea?

>> No.3349768

>>3349727
Yeah, I thought of that, but I'm looking for some stories with a bit more pedestrian subject matter and setting.

>> No.3350009

Can anyone halp me?

>> No.3350132
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3350132

> Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov.

I hate pedophiles, but "Humbert Humbert" is hilarious...!

>> No.3350165

What about Quentin's chapter of The Sound and the Fury? You might be thinking of something more lucid, though.

>> No.3350181

>>3350165
I'm not really looking for stream of consciousness stuff, but I guess without it the story just seems like a long description of surroundings.

>> No.3350208

>>3350181

OP again, not really sure how this applies. I'm actually in the middle of Lolita and there's quite a bit of characters outside of HH in the novel...

>> No.3350330

*The Pedestrian, by Rad Bradbury;
*The Lurking Fear, by Howard Phillips Lovecraft;
*The Zahir, by Jorge Luis Borges;
*The Island Dream, by Hermann Hesse.

I don't know what you want.

>> No.3350375

>>3350132
>having to preface your enjoyment of Lolita with a denunciation of the protagonist's sexual inclinations
>2012

>> No.3350411

oblomov spends most of his time in bed

>> No.3350462

>>3350375
Hahaha. Read the prologue...

>> No.3350621

>>3350330
Any examples that aren't magic realism, science fiction, or horror? Y'know, just like a dude going back to a place of significance from his past, a place that evokes memory and detailed description?

>> No.3350717

>>3350621
>The Immortal, by Jorge Luis Borges;
>The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (just ignore the fucking kid).

>> No.3350723

>>3350621
oblomov, kinda.

>> No.3350767

>>3350723
>>3350411
Is there a lit recommended translation of Oblomov? Wiki says that the first translation is pretty severely abridged.

>> No.3351488

Bamping for help from late nite lit.

>> No.3353593

Saving yet again for help. I'm walking down to the library in a few to pick up some that have already been recommended.

>> No.3353605

Large portions of early and middle period JG Ballard. The Book of Disquiet.

>> No.3354342

OP here, could only track down oblomov today. More recommendations are always welcome.