Main character is a self insert

>main character is a self insert

>main character isn't a self insert

>main character inserts self

>main self is a character

>villain is the writer's ex insert

>villains just the guy who bullied you in middle-school

>villain is a white male

>implying notes from the house of the dead is bad
Wew Nabokov

>villain is the guy who raped, killed, and ate all the author's girlfriends, and continues to do so.

I'd say the old drunkards are dosto's inserts. But there weren't any on that book

>main character is a single person

>Implying Joyce sucks

wew

>Dante's inferno
>Utopia

>main character is in prison
>dostoevsky wrote it after he was in prison
hmm

>main character

For once I actually have to agree with OP

What did he mean by this?

>character

...

>the villain is a self insert

Find me one book that has done this.

Paradise Lost

Catcher in the Rye

>main character is a shitty one-dimensional caricature of a person (a.k.a. postmodernism)

Most people are basically a one dimensional caricature of a person anyway.

>main character isn't a qtp2t anime girl

>author becomes the main character in real life

The short story that I am writing about fantasypunk masochism.

Lolita

But that's just the protagonist being an antihero.

For Paradise Lost we have god Yhwh as the villain, but in Lolita, can the other pedo be called a villain just because HH doesn't like him?

ORIGINAL JOKE

they function as protagonist and as antagonist

how does that not fulfill every qualification of "villain"?

if you clarify what you meant to exclude all instances of where the protagonist functions as villain, then i think at least in the case of Lolita that HH primarily functions as antagonist, and its his role as protagonist which is redundant