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What is some good literature about ordinary, everyday quotidian life?

>> No.8522393

>>8522389
Ulysses. Portrait of the artist as a young man. Finnegans Wake.

>> No.8522427

>>8522393
Thanks LOL. And good normal lit expressed in a straightforward way?

>> No.8522437

>>8522389
The pale king

>> No.8522444

>>8522427
>And good normal lit expressed in a straightforward way?
...

>> No.8522449

Cathedral by Raymond Carver

>> No.8522546

My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard

>> No.8522587

Winesburg, Ohio

Dubliners

Both perfect 10s imo

>> No.8522594

>>8522587
>Winesburg, Ohio
JUST WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR, BIG THANKS ANON

>> No.8522603

>>8522594
Hell yeah. It's comfortable as fuck and you'll feel super content being an every day average citizen after reading it

>> No.8522607

>>8522449
I will second this OP

Carver may not catch every ordinary detail that someone from the east coast of the US would expect, because he captures a good amount very well.

What we talk about when we talk about love is another good one.