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Can /lit/ recommend me some books where the protagonist does not "belong" in their environment for lack of a better term? For example American Psycho and A Confederacy of Dunces would be books I consider in that category.

>> No.7052653

>>7052041
Thats a big theme of transgressive fiction, so I'd start looking into that.

>> No.7052659

>>7052041
L'etranger.

>> No.7052773

Steppenwolf
Notes From Underground (pretty much any existentialist novel)
Botchan
No Longer Human
Portrait of the Artist as the Young Man
Journey to the end of the Night

>> No.7052787

>>7052041
My diary tbh fam

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>>7052773
This and Marx's theory of alienation as well

>> No.7053717

Anything Kafka.

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>>7052041
Confessions of a Mask is pretty great. It's not too long, fairly easy to read, very well written and gets you meme-points for reading a meme-author.