What are some examples of Man vs. Reality?

Steppenwolf, wouldn't recommend it though.

Synecdoche, New York

Don Quixote

Don Quixote can fit most or all of the the ones after "classical" depending on your interpretation, except maybe man vs technology, and even that is touched upon.

Shouldn't vs reality be "all the above"

Also, this

Man vs reality
Seems a bit too close to man vs society,
PoMos often cite that the "majority" have a monopoly on reality.

Maybe a better way to put it would be man vs conflict?

The trial
Lovecraft?
Ulysses
Finnegans wake
Myth of Sisyphus

neuromancer

The Republican Party.

The heros journey
The I ching

what do you mean "conflict?

Unless you want to read math and science papers proving the validity of quatum theory or parallel worlds theory, then my understanding that in a story/narrative conflict is what shapes its reality/universe.
When a character questions the nature of reality he is really questioning conflict.
Go on some world building threads in Veeky Forums to understand.

maybe you can say a conflict with reality because it contains fiction in itself. is he questioning the conflict itself or experiencing the conflict?

(((reality)))

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parodies, satires, surreal works, computer editing images, conspiracy theories

Kek

The Iceberg Hermit

great book no one has ever read

Child vs Reality

What Happened: Hillary Rodham Clinton

The crying of lot 49

How is the trial not man vs society? The whole book is a metaphor for social anxiety

my dream diary desu

top kek, whut? The Trial is about human condition, totalitarianism, and law.

Does Valis count?

Are you literally retarded?

the conflict is him questioning the nature of reality.

not like there's many books about destroying reality because it is out to get you.
you could also understand it about how reality seems to be punishing you for reasons far beyond than what you know.

Inception's script

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The opening line suggests that, man. "Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know." Your mother's death, arguably the closest relationship for many people, is usually a very remarkable event for most people. That he's unable to identify if it was today or yesterday suggests that he is not struggling with a simple memory problem; instead he's struggling with a perception problem. Reality is structured by days for the average person; this structure has evaporated for Meursault. He has no desire to abide by these "conventions of reality" anymore.

The Third Policeman

>That he's unable to identify if it was today or yesterday
Is it me, or is this very common claim plain wrong? IIRC he doesn't know simply because he got a telegram and it doesn't say exactly when the death happened.

What are some good examples of Man vs Author?

youtu.be/npTC6b5-yvM

Shit illustrators ripping off Tom Gauld's style.

Any religious text *tips fedora*

The Stranger is man vs everything tbqh.
But the Sun stuff should be the clearest man vs reality.

That's more 'first person man against basic logic' tbqh.

some of the Viriconium stories by M. John Harrison.

vast majority of stuff by Thomas Ligotti

man vs technology is arguably modern

the new york trilogy

At Swim-Two-Birds

An absolutely amazing book.

Lol every book

>ubik
>best
i know it's awesome, but what about Three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch ??

>The stranger is more about man vs. society

mega brainlet alert

Man vs Technology is definitely modern, considering that modernism was born of the anxieties and novelties of the modern industrial age. Maybe man vs internet is a better post-modern take on technology.

Holy shit! I didn't know people operated on such a low level. Do you think the Trial is about how tedious the legal process is?