>character is a jaded loner in his late 30s / early 40s who meets gentle but damaged woman who shares a small pocket of warmth and tenderness with him in an otherwise grim and ruthless worldAny books which includes this kind of storyline?
>>25257423No foid is coming to rescue your old ass.
>>25257426t. zoomer with insane amounts of time
Elementary Particles
>>25257423The first novel by Jose Donoso have a plot like that.
>>25257423Lolita
>>252574231984
>>25257423Take away the age requirement and you got yourself Crime and Punishment
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>>25257430You might be cool.
>>25257945im a bogman
>>25257423the bfg
>>25257423King Lear, kind of
>>25257738Is this a video game? The writing looks awful.
Re:Zero Volume 6
>>25257423isnt this what all books are about?
>>25257423Literally my diary desu
>>25257423Notes from Underground
>>25257423Lots of books written by women have this basic template ("gentle younger woman meets and fixes world-weary / cynical / otherwise emotionally damaged man") but they are usually told from the woman's perspective, of course.— Jane Eyreis a pretty famous example.— Persuasionsort of, with the twist that the couple knew each other before and didn't marry and have regretted it and get a second chance. Also the woman is feeling just as bruised by life as the man is.Still by a woman but not from the woman's perspective:— The Last Enchantment(the third in Mary Stewart's Merlin series) sorta fits the template. Not heavyweight lit but quite readable. Merlin is getting on by this point, Arthur is well and truly king, and Merlin (having been celibate all his life) gets a bit of rejuvanation from a young cutie. It's a twist on the classic episode where Nimue / Vivian / whatever seduces Merlin and steals his power and imprisons him. Here the girl isn't evil. You really would want to read Crystal Cave & Hollow Hills first though. Not worth it unless you want to read a series about King Arthur from Merlin's perspective anyway.— Silas MarnerNot quite the same but might give you the emotional food you're after. You get the "angelic female gives world-weary man a new lease of life" vibe, but the female isn't his wife, it's a random baby girl he finds on the doorstep and brings up as his daughter. (No, he doesn't marry her, this being a real book for adults, not a Japanese cartoon. She marries someone else.)By non-women:— The Count of Monte CristoHaydee pretty much fulfills this role for Dantes, but they only really get together at the end (or even after the end) so you aren't going to want to read the book just for this.I think your picture has it right in that there is surely a lot of noir stuff like this.— Build My Gallows Highstarts off with the set-up you want (cute young girl wants to marry and fix Man With A Past but he keeps putting her off because of moral code or something) but you can't always rely on a happy ending with these things.There must be dozens of better examples but I don't read novels much.
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by le Carre
>>25257426imagine op is actually the deranged but gentle woman and this is her fantasy. cope moar moid.
>>25257423Lots of genre stuff of varying quality has the trope, perhaps not as the overall theme, e.g.— The Terror (Dan Simmons)A big book (it's three different novels all jam-packed together really) but if you stick it to the end, the overall story arc does indeed turn out to be "angelic younger woman gives older jaded despairing man a new lease of life".The woman is (literally) damaged too . . .— NeuromancerCase isn't 30s/40s but he's still a jaded lonerLinda Lee is the younger damaged womanTheir scenes together are very much "oasis of tenderness in an uncaring world" (especially the episode on Neuromancer's beach).>>25258868Good call I shoulda thought of that one.
>>25257423Sounds a lot like Steppenwolf, but I don't recommend that book because it is bad. Wish I had a proper rec, can't think of a good version but surely it's out there.
>>25258206>I can't really say my writing is better than thisIt never began.
>>25258227Came here to say this.
>>25257423It's called A PAINFUL CASE, A SHORT STORY BY JAMES JOYCE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS COLLECTION "DUBLINERS". THAT'S THE ONE YOU WANT TO READ, OP. I realize that the caps are obnoxious but let's just say that it hit a little close to home.Unfortunately, Joyce himself seems to have (incorrectly) regarded it as one of the weakest stories in the collection, which just goes to show that artists can't always accurately evaluate the quality of their own work.
