The protagonist is supposedly the one writing the book

>the protagonist is supposedly the one writing the book

>The protagonist is a sickly young man from a well-off family who kills himself at the novel's climax

The human stain pulled it off nicely

ulysses, technically.

Was it supposed to be so obvious in The Plague?

>One of the main characters is schizophrenic.

Ada was pretty good, though.

>the narrotor is the man that the protagonist talks too at the end and I was too dumb to understand that and would have missed it if I didn't read a review afterwords

Goethe is some real overrated shit

Napoleonic Twilight novels!

*talks to

Probably

>protagonist is writing the book
>protagonist dies at the end

How is that a problem. I'm reading kafka's metamorphosis and the whole thinking he's a bug sounds like a delusion he has. Words and phrases like Losing his mind, anxious, and disposition appear early on.

I'll do you one better
>Book is just preinternet creepypasta

>the opening scene is halfway through the book's plotline

How do you feel if the opening scene was from the viewpoint of someone at the very end?

What do you mean?

>the reader is writing the book

In media res??

En media res works well senpai

Referring to the first "in media res" example structure here

It's really hit and miss. Too many authors essentially make it *Record scratch* So I guess you're wondering how I got here? Funny story...

Here, I mean

Can be absolute patrician if done right, but its one of those things that will hardly ever be done right

>In the beginning the protagonist created the heavens and the earth

>the protagonist comes again to judge the living and the dead
>after the book ends

Tfw I was about to write about this