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Sick of asshole protagonists give me some books not like pic related where the main character is not a massive douche.

>> No.8484917

>>8484913

More Russian Lit? The antidote is The Idiot by Dostoyevsky

>> No.8484927

>>8484917
Came here to post this

>> No.8484932

>>8484913
>not like pic related
???

>> No.8484938

>>8484913
is this the new dark souls

>> No.8485003

>>8484932
In regards to the character not being a cunt. Yes.

>> No.8485108

The Tunnel by William Gass
Notes from the Underground
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Odyssey
The Bible
Lolita
etc

>> No.8485122

>>8484913
Mason&Dixon
Père Goriot and Eugenia Grandet
The Tartar Steppe
The Plague
Candido
The Scarlet Letter
Calvino's Our Ancestors trilogy

>>8485108
>Lolita
lel

>> No.8485137

>>8484917
Prince Myshkin was a douche in his own frustrating and silly way.

>> No.8485150

>>8485137
what? being a failure and being a douche are completely different things man, Myshkin is the most "good" character of the russian literature

>> No.8485626

>>8485122
The main character of pere is an asshole tho

>> No.8485829

>>8485108
>The Odyssey
Odysseus is a bit of an arsehole but in a "ha what a guy' way