/lit/ - Literature

>>13906333
No Longer Human; it has some """romance""" in it kind-of though

>>13906344
I've dropped that, the mc seems more like a failed normalfag than a social outcast and he makes a point that at least he can fake his way through social life.

>>13906333
Chaos and Night. Might be even too bleak for you tbqh

Notes from Underground

>>13906369
also finished that

>>13906352
>and he makes a point that at least he can fake his way through social life.
That doesn't really mean anything. For example, the phenomenon of the "secret schizoid."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder#The_'secret_schizoid'

>>13906384
>... the schizoid individual is able to express a great deal of feeling and to make what appear to be impressive social contacts yet in reality gives nothing and loses nothing. Because they are "playing a part", their personality is not involved. According to Fairbairn, the person disowns the part he is playing, and the schizoid individual seeks to preserve his personality intact and immune from compromise.[36] The schizoid's false persona is based around what those around them define as normal or good behaviour, as a form of compliance.
All of that would apply to the protagonist of No Longer Human, of course.

>>13906384
The thing that sets Holden apart from him is that he loathes his social life whereas the mc in no longer human plainly doesn't understand it, yet for some reason he gets his fair share of attention from girls. If he's a schizoid, so be it, but Holden's mental illness is social autism, not schizophrenia.

>>13906411
I don't know if I'd necessarily call him a schizoid, but he clearly fits the description I quoted. He plays the part of a clown in order to comply with expected human behavior.

>>13906359
I can't find a translated ebook anywhere sadly

>>13906422
nevertheless the difference between Catcher and no longer human is abysmal. There is barely any trace of angst and misanthropy in the latter and the whole book reads like him drifting quietly through life with a mask over his face. The two might look similar but couldn't be any more different.

>>13906456
>nevertheless the difference between Catcher and no longer human is abysmal. There is barely any trace of angst and misanthropy in the latter and the whole book reads like him drifting quietly through life with a mask over his face. The two might look similar but couldn't be any more different.
I agree they aren't the same (though I disagree about the lack of misanthropy you're claiming), but I think they fit a broader mold of alienation. But this isn't a thread about NLH so I'll stop arguing with you about it. I only intended to suggest it so if you didn't like it there's not much more I can say.

>>13906333
>>13906369
>>13906380
The Double

>>13906333
The Sun Also Rises is the closest thing to Catcher in the Rye

Poe's biography.

>>13906333
Steppenwolf