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6673484 No.6673484 [Reply] [Original]

I think we may have done this a few times but it won't hurt doing another. Books that feature a character who is alone or simply a book about solitude.

>> No.6673496

>>6673484
I'll get us going.

The Crossing - Cormac McCarthy
Notes From Underground- Dostoevsky

And when I read Rimbaud by Graham Robb I had a strong feeling of aloneness also in the biography of Wittgenstein.

>> No.6673506 [DELETED] 

My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger- Elliot Rodger

>> No.6673552

>>6673484
Earth Abides

>> No.6673566

Kokoro

>> No.6673567

>>6673484
Motorman

>> No.6673611

>>6673506
Why do people care about this edgelord?

>> No.6673617 [DELETED] 

>>6673611
You are him whether you realize it or not. You just haven't put the theory into praxis yet.

>> No.6673634

>>6673617
I'm really not... His parents failed to raise him properly and he was simply crazy

>> No.6673651

Knut Hamsun's Hunger is pretty good if you want a book about a man going a bit mental in his own brain.

>> No.6673671

>>6673484

Surely, not Walden.

>> No.6673855

>>6673484
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/10/top-10-books-about-being-alone

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>>6673484

>> No.6674812

>>6673651
Ilajali! Ilajali!

>> No.6675411

>>6673506
>Tfw reading his manifesto and realizing he had a better social life than me

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>>6673484

>Lanark
by Alasdair Gray

>Stoner
by John Williams

The protagonists of both are distressingly relatable...

>> No.6675467

>>6673484

I'm currently reading The Fountainhead which has a character who is utterly lonely and with whom I can relate to.

Is it worth finishing the book? I'm about halfway done.

>> No.6675479

100 years of solitude

Obvious and if you haven't read it already you have no business being here

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>>6675467
A little strange that you asked if it's worth finishing since you (seem to) have no qualms with it

>> No.6675977

Grothendieck's Récoltes et Semailles.

>> No.6676012

>>6675977
>Récoltes et Semailles
Do you know English translation? All my efforts to find it (about two years ago) were fruitless.

>> No.6676033

>>6676012
i just found one here

http://www.fermentmagazine.org/rands/recoltes1.html