Any novels that feature a character who lives a very simple, repetitive, isolated life and spends his free time just quietly existing?Not trying to post a feelthread, I just don't know of many characters like this except for the narrator of TBOD.
>>24108357Essays in Idleness
>>24108357Yea why is every story about somebody who does something? I dont get why there arent more stories about a dude whos a failure and does nothing and nothing happens in it. Would be based
A simple heart by Flaubert
>>24108357>>24108401A Man with No Talents: Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer >The book was published in Japan in 2000 after Oyama had submitted his manuscript―on a lark, he confesses―for one of Japan's top literary awards, the Kaiko Takeshi Prize. Although he was astounded actually to win the award, Oyama remained in character and elected to preserve the anonymity that has freed him from all social bonds and obligations.
>>24108380>>24108423Really interesting, thank you.>>24108401Hopefully we'll find some in this thread!
>>24108357Pere Goriot by Balzac
>>24108517Le Rivage des Syrtes
>>24108357THE BOOK OF DISQUIET
>>24108532>TBOD
film but Perfect Days fits this
The Cossacks by Tolstoy kinda fits, it's been a while since I read it.
>>24108773Is there a dub for this or is it just subtitled?
Pessoa's other works besides TBOD fit your description more. Try Keeper of Sheep.
Paterson
Stoner? Been a while since I read it but it's the first thing I thought of.
>>24108357a king alone
>>24109039Huh, how does this fit?They ride around and fight eachother in this book, a lot of stuff happens. Not very simple life.
>>24108357Those books make plot-trannies seethe and kvetch about how boring they are, and this industry bends to their every whim - that's why you don't see books like that all that often.
>>24108357Huysmans, Downstream (À vau-l'eau)
Years ago some anon mentioned a book where the main character spent dozens of pages doing nothing besides rambling while dragging himself across the ground. Does anyone know what book this is? I recall it being compared to Oblomov.
Beckett Trilogy
>>24108357Maybe The Old Curiosity Shop (Dickens). A bit character that keeps the boilers going, at night, grew up around them and basically has lived in their glow, his entire life. 3rd-shift Hell, 1800's-style.
Septology by Jon Fosse
>>24110009This movie wasn't great imo. What was with the black and white home decorating thing? Seemed a little on the nose whatever it was supposed to represent.
>>24110159How It Is?
>>24110335what did you think about septology? I want to get into some fosse and one of my next reads will be either melancholy (1 and 2) or septology.
>>24110591I love it a great deal. The Melancholies are great too though, I find it hard to say which is my favourite
>>24108357>>24108434See also Rental Person Who Does Nothing: A Memoir by Shoji Morimoto
>>24110619Interesting.
>>24109039>Russia slop
>>24110354Since you haven't figured out what said motif was about, it hasn't been as on-the-nose as you make it out to be.
>>24110562I think that's it, thanks. Gpt suggested it was either Malone dies or Molloy, although he did tell me to check Beckett's other works if necessary. Honestly, how many "crazy nigga rambling and dragging himself" books has this guy written?
>>24108357Skylark by Kosztolányi, I think, I forgot most about it.
>>24108357sounds like the existence of most monks.https://i.imgur.com/wmdZuIc.gif
>>24110619Why does Japan have such a history with this stuff
>>24108357this would be the stranger if it weren't for that damned sun in his eyes
my diary desu
>>24108357Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov.
