Fiction Books that showcase the slow destruction of the protagonist's mind. Preferably 21st century...

Fiction Books that showcase the slow destruction of the protagonist's mind. Preferably 21st century, but suggest whatever you know.

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I kind of want to say Ballard's Drowned World

And of course Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Andreas by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Not 21st, far from it, but probably one of the earliest pieces of post-modern meta-fiction - sort of by accident.

Try Seiobo There Below or The World Goes On by Laszlo Krasznahorkai

A scanner darkly

jesus christ my lord and savior who is this black dress damsel in distress

She's not in distress, she's in dis dress.

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(not slow, obviously, because it's a very short story)

Unhinged protagonists are the lamest fucking characters ever because real life mental illness is boring, annoying, and something you never want to experience even secondhand. I instantly roll my eyes when I see any media with a crazy main character. If you wrote them well, they would ruin the entire novel, and I don't think you want to do that.

obligs Flowers For Algernon

shes nothing but click bait user

The Sound and the Fury

aunt julia and the scriptwriter

The Yellow Wallpaper was pretty good and short, if old.

Samuel Beckett - Molloy

The Crying of Lot 49
As I Lay Dying

If you're particularly interested in the 20th century, try The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Destruction is rather a side element, but becomes definite by the end. It's about a Vietnamese double agent, set during and after the fall of South Vietnam.

This. May seem reddit tier but it's actually a very well written book.

Turkeyhandle

Crime and Punishment, in a nebulous sense. I'm mostly recommending it because everyone needs to read it.

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my nigga Caleb Williams

I already read it in highschool. Required reading, good teacher

I don't need to read shit you dogma enabling coercive piece of wombat scat
>good teacher
No, worst teacher you can have

golden notebook, lessing

Nice

lel

You mean As I Lay Dying.

Is she holding a Russian translation of Arthur Conan Doyle?

The Butcher Boy by McCabe

Weird Д if it is.