Fiction 引きこもり 12/19/18 (Wed) 05:13:15 a8b393 No. 6801
Lets recommend fiction where there's a strong theme of social isolation, solitude, avoidant inclinations, alienation etc. So far these books, which I've yet to buy (but will have by christmas), seem to meet the criteria (feel free to openly judge):
>Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
>Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
>The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
>No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
>Deadeye Dick: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
>The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
>Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
>Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse
> Hunger by Knut Hamsun
Perhaps over time we hikkis could create our own chart full of recommended books that deal with our world.
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引きこもり 12/20/18 (Thu) 01:47:35 a8b393 No. 6809
Here's an interesting chart from r9k
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引きこもり 12/20/18 (Thu) 05:54:04 77ce24 No. 6810
>>6801
>>No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
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I'm glad you mention No Longer Human. It's an incredible book. I've read it multiple times.
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引きこもり 12/20/18 (Thu) 07:49:01 5f5a9e No. 6811
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引きこもり 12/21/18 (Fri) 04:48:58 77ce24 No. 6812
This isn't a book, but have you guys seen Into the Wild? It's based on a real-life story about Christopher Mccandless who runs away from society to live in the woods as a hermit.
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引きこもり 01/23/19 (Wed) 22:46:36 a38f24 No. 6946
Stoner is quite the novel. I recently finished it and enjoyed what I took to be the overall theme of the book: rejection from the world. William Stoner is constantly rejected by the world, either because of his own fault or for no other reason than plain worldly indifference. Either way you can feel his isolation. I recommend the novel, and it's pretty short too.
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引きこもり 01/27/19 (Sun) 22:03:12 535a8e No. 6972
>>6811
I think it would count. Lord of the Flies is all about tribal tendencies in societies. If you can't fit in with the crowed, fallowing the fair boy and the fascist dressed Choir, then you end up on the outskirts of society or rather posting on chans and hikki neet.
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引きこもり 01/30/19 (Wed) 18:26:56 a38f24 No. 6982
I wonder if we could just turn this thread into a general fiction thread? Just so there can be more replies and such. Just a thought. I've just bought and ordered, and which are being shipped right now:
>Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
>Butchers Crossing by John Williams
>Hunger by Knut Hamsun
>The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
I think Hunger will be the most relevant to the original idea of the thread. I'll definitely give a little review of it when I'm done. What have you anons been reading lately?
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引きこもり 01/31/19 (Thu) 05:51:50 77ce24 No. 6987
>>6982
I prefer the alienation theme, but for more comments I'd do general fiction. I barely read fiction though.
I've been getting through Notes from Underground. The Underground Man rambles on a lot in the book.
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引きこもり 02/14/19 (Thu) 20:23:46 bc73d8 No. 7020
Not as literary as the other suggestions so far, but here are a couple stories from a collection I read recently if you like cats. They are relevant to solitude and social isolation, but the cat serves as a "guardian angel."
>Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Cat
Cat lives with a hermit out in a cabin in the wilderness sharing food and keeping him company.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30092/30092-h/30092-h.htm#Page_1
>William Livingston Alden: Monty's Friend
An ugly man is ostracized by a mining camp and suspected of witch-craft when he makes friends with a cat.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30092/30092-h/30092-h.htm#Page_203
These were two of the better stories from the collection. II, XI and XIII were also entertaining, but I didn't like the rest of them.
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引きこもり 02/20/19 (Wed) 10:29:17 5cde71 No. 7074
Picking up reading again, especially reading Pynchon, has made me aware of just how poor my reading comprehension is. And I read abysmally slow, as I read word by word, not chunks of words or sentences, and I subvocalize. I don't think there is any way to improve besides reading a lot so I'm trying to cut out porn and IRC so that I fill most of my time up with reading but I run into the problem of sustaining my attention, which again I think the only way to improve is by just paying attention for longer and longer periods of time. I'd really like if by the end of the year I was a better reader than I currently am.
Currently reading Vineland, next will be Inherent Vice, then The Crying of Lot 49, and then V. After I'll either take a break from Pynchon or read the rest of his works.
What have you guys been reading?
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引きこもり 03/05/19 (Tue) 09:15:02 77ce24 No. 7132
>>7074
>Currently reading Vineland, next will be Inherent Vice, then The Crying of Lot 49, and then V. After I'll either take a break from Pynchon or read the rest of his works.
>What have you guys been reading?
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I'm straying from the alienation theme, but I really liked Life of a Counterfeiter. It's a short story about a painter who counterfeited the works of a more successful artist, and could never find any happiness in himself.
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引きこもり 03/11/19 (Mon) 05:27:25 77ce24 No. 7164
>>6946
I just started reading Stoner, and I can already see his attitude of detachment right from the beginning. Hopefully I can keep myself focused on finishing it.
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引きこもり 03/11/19 (Mon) 22:15:46 cfeea7 No. 7176
"The Royal Game (also known as Chess Story; in the original German Schachnovelle, "Chess Novella") is a novella by Austrian author Stefan Zweig" deals with a guy who is put into an isolated prison cell with no human contact and it deals with his slow descend into madness and dealing with his boredom.
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引きこもり 03/16/19 (Sat) 14:58:26 8e9ce6 No. 7206
>>7074
Nice, I just finished reading Vineland a while back. It's definitely a good book, and Pynchon's style and technique is really entertaining. Best of luck at becoming a better reader.
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