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Novels with mentally ill prota(...) 11/14/25(Fri)16:32:31 No.24880864

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Novels with mentally ill protags Anonymous 11/14/25(Fri)16:32:31 No.24880864 Archived

Anonymous
11/14/25(Fri)17:03:33 No.24880944

Anonymous 11/14/25(Fri)17:03:33 No.24880944

>>24880864
My diary desu

Anonymous
11/14/25(Fri)18:03:42 No.24881052

Anonymous 11/14/25(Fri)18:03:42 No.24881052

>>24880864
Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima (based on a true person which he spoke to for the book but is still halfway fictional since it's almost all internal monologues he could never have known)
The Lime Works by Thomas Bernhard

Anonymous
11/14/25(Fri)21:07:31 No.24881435

Anonymous 11/14/25(Fri)21:07:31 No.24881435

American Psycho

Anonymous
11/15/25(Sat)01:59:33 No.24881904

Anonymous 11/15/25(Sat)01:59:33 No.24881904

Dostoevskys "Idiot"

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11/15/25(Sat)02:02:09 No.24881910

Anonymous 11/15/25(Sat)02:02:09 No.24881910

>>24880944
Beat me to it.

Anonymous
11/15/25(Sat)02:09:41 No.24881920

Anonymous 11/15/25(Sat)02:09:41 No.24881920

>>24880864
Mine if it gets published eventually

Anonymous
11/15/25(Sat)03:13:27 No.24881994

Anonymous 11/15/25(Sat)03:13:27 No.24881994

>>24881920
Protagonist anon, not author

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11/15/25(Sat)03:42:33 No.24882029

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11/15/25(Sat)05:43:44 No.24882131

Anonymous 11/15/25(Sat)05:43:44 No.24882131

>>24882029
Not mentally ill.

Anonymous
11/15/25(Sat)06:18:05 No.24882177

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The Diary of a Rapist

Anonymous
11/15/25(Sat)14:05:26 No.24883171

Anonymous 11/15/25(Sat)14:05:26 No.24883171

>>24880864
Staying within Japanese literature, Dogura Magura

Anonymous
11/15/25(Sat)15:28:14 No.24883359

Anonymous 11/15/25(Sat)15:28:14 No.24883359

>>24883171
Not translated (yet)

Anonymous
11/15/25(Sat)21:47:44 No.24884116

Anonymous 11/15/25(Sat)21:47:44 No.24884116

>>24880864
>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
>The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
>Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen
>White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky (yes, maladaptive daydreaming)
those are the ones off the top of my head.

Anonymous
11/16/25(Sun)01:00:31 No.24884400

Anonymous 11/16/25(Sun)01:00:31 No.24884400

>>24882131
Psychosis isn't the only form of mental illness.

Anonymous
11/16/25(Sun)01:02:51 No.24884405

Anonymous 11/16/25(Sun)01:02:51 No.24884405

>>24880864
All of the characters in One Hundred Years of Solitude are fucked up mentally

Anonymous
11/16/25(Sun)10:32:26 No.24885125

Anonymous 11/16/25(Sun)10:32:26 No.24885125

My autobiography

Anonymous
11/16/25(Sun)10:39:37 No.24885138

Anonymous 11/16/25(Sun)10:39:37 No.24885138

>>24880864
Mein Kampf

Anonymous
11/16/25(Sun)15:43:24 No.24885814

Anonymous 11/16/25(Sun)15:43:24 No.24885814

>>24880864
The bible