Name a book with romance in it that isn't about a woman fixing all of a sad man's problems

Name a book with romance in it that isn't about a woman fixing all of a sad man's problems

1984 is about a woman derailing a sad man's problems even further

I was about to say this. Although thinking about it she does offer the prospect of fixing his problems. It just doesn't work out so well.

Gone Girl
She makes the sad man have even more problems.

A Clockwork Orange

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Romeo & Juliet

Hamlet, though it's not really a book

Giovanni's Room

Kierkegaard's biography

my only problem is not having a woman in my life

>not really a book

Do you read it on clay tablets or what?

...she fixed his problems. He loved Big Brother now. Now, life is much easier for him. He is at peace. He has no more threats because he himself in not a threat.

Whatever by Michael Smellbeoque, also my diary famalam

His Dark Materials inb4 genre shit
Any Shakespeare romance
The Divine Comedy

Can't think of anything else.

How could we go this long without mentioning the elephant in the room.

Tender as the Night by FSF

Maurice

ba dum tss

Ulysses could go either way.

Kafka's The Castle, lmao.

Honestly this isn't a v good bait thread I'm having trouble thinking of any decent literary works where the romance plays out the way you describe it, OP.

Even in Victorian lit I feel like more often than not the opposite takes place, where some virgin woman is rescued by Prince Charming.

Maybe what you describe happens more often in YA novels idk I'm not a plebchild

Lolita begins as a book about a troubled man who meets his muse, who he thinks will solve his problems, but eventually ends in his demise.

I would also argue that Lolita isn't a true romance. More of a story of one-sided infatuation.

Never Let Me Go

Madame Bovary...

What kind of stupid thread is this?

Kiku's Prayer by Shusaku Endo

laughter in the dark

The key by junichiro tanizaki