Any good book/s on isolation? I am not talking about going to the mountains to be alone or being rejected by society. I am referring to meeting people and never connecting with them even when they are the "right kind" of person on paper. Never opening up, keeping to self... like an alien, as if to protect oneself, but then feeling the isolation.
>>25220920you know what would be fun. if we wrote this book together. draft blocky style only with little bits of prose. like i write a chunk and then you write a chunk and see if our experiences match up
>>25220920The Road by Cormac McCarthy
>>25220920The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
im thinkin, im thinkin.in the meantime have a solidarity-bump
>>25220974That’d be awesome, unfortunately my writing is pretty terrible.
>>25220920On Walden pond
>>25220920I believe I share the same or a similar emotion to what you are looking for. I have also been looking for such books; however, everything I have read contains some degree of rejection rather than straight up feeling like an alien, but I do think that the thought process of characters are fairly similar. I liked "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" and "Convenience Store Woman". CSW is not so much about loneliness or a sense of despair at being different, but merely the resulting frustration and confusion that comes from it. Murata mentions feeling like an alien in interviews and in her other book "Earthlings" (which I didn't like as much as CSW).Do you have any books you can recommend or are close to what you are looking for?
>>25222281okay ive been doin some thinkenthe answer is so obvious that i didnt even think of it the stranger by camus is exactly what you are looking forand as it pains me to say, but no longer human by dazai toothe protagonists are both normalfags from an outside view with social connections but are still completely alienated and putting on a charade >>25222568seconding these, to pile on, confessions of a mask might scratch OPs itch too
>>25222590>seconding these, to pile on, confessions of a mask might scratch OPs itch tooI agree with Confessions of a Mask; I forgot to add it. Many consider the character in COAM fairly similar to the character in TTOTGP.I don't really agree with The Stranger; it never scratched the itch for me. It lacks any form of introspection and all we can do is observe, but never get into his mind. I feel that the key thing I want is to see a perspective like my own in a different character. No Longer Human has been recommended by too many normalfags for me to trust it would be good; I will read it at some point, but I have deprioritized it for that reason. Perhaps that is too prejudiced of me.
Swedish classic "Doktor Glas" by Hjalmar Söderberg is basically exactly what you're talking about. Maybe not the absolute focus of the book but a big theme.
>>25222615no longer human describes the main question with all attributes perfectly, just read it, its not long.I have to admit that i personally did not like it either, but still, it just fits like a glove for what you are searching for, and is way more introperspective than the stranger, maybe you will hate it too, but i would advice to read it. Describes the self-sabotaging type that wallows in self-pity while having everything handed to him perfectly. Maybe because deep down it hit too close
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>>25220920No Longer Human. He got a lot of pussy tho
>>25222700paid for*
>>25220920Maybe Thomas Bernhards Frost and Old Masters. The guy is pretty much going to the mountains or is kinda alone, but he talks with the main character about how he is/was alone and why he hates everybody. Very introspective with not really much happening besides an old guy rambling about everything from hate for society, people, art, toilets in Vienna, barking dogs, isolation, etc. Not sure if that fits though. Maybe read a little more about it. Maybe Woodcutters too. Knut Hamsun Pan.Nature guy tries to hit off with some people from a city. He is too different and he somehow stays isolated. Though he also opens up to other people, it still somehow fails. The short last part of the book might be a little better suited for what you are looking for. But the book is short in general. No Longer Human. The others already recommended it a few times. Solid book. Overrated because tiktok sluts pretend like it is the best book ever written, but still solid. Fits very well.
Any good books on how to eradicate blogposting sissies from the face of the earth? You are not some unique special snowflake, there is nothing original about these types of threads, nor has any erudite thought ever passed through this empty skull of yours. Delete this thread immediately and go to the fucking archives and read through the thousand other threads that are about this exact same self pitying rubbish. I doubt you are even going through any sort of crisis at the moment, you are most likely not even going to read a single page of any of the books recommended fucking troll subhuman faggot.
>>25222748That book is called a razor blade and it is read from top to bottom. Speedy reading.
>>25220920A Christmas Carol perchance
That one Kafka short story collection
