What are some good books with mentally ill protagonists?
What are some good books with mentally ill protagonists?
The Bell Jar, though whether that is a good book is pretty subjective.
Dreaming of Babylon
Anything by Dostoyevsky
Anything by Kafka
Name me one Kafka protagonist who was mentally ill other than the hunger artist.
Pic related, about all of them.
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The fella who thought he transformed into a bug?
Mein Kampf
DIARY
Lolita
He did transform into a bug.
Nope.
kek
DESU
Is there any Dostoyevsky work with a mad but happy protagonist? Ive only read Crime and Punishment
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
To the White Sea
The killer inside me
All of them.
>(((mentally ill)))
Don't fall for the mental Jew. Only the brain gets ill.
If you have a few hours to kill 'I am the Cheese 'is alright.
This but only if you're willing to compromise on the "good" part.
"A rebours" by Huysmans. The protag might not be mentally ill, but he's definitely strange.
>dostoyevsky
>happy
>ever
if you can find a copy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Almayer's Fooly
for woman but ok. if you're young you might like it
very good recommendation. it's about the guy who's not crazy, but does everything in opposite to normal
get the fuck out of Veeky Forums. the memes are boring, you either are unable or unwilling to discuss anything. pure cancer.
My diary desu
Myshkin is sort of happy sometimes, but mostly crushed by the weight of everything
I'm going to read this book because I like the title
You can buy that exact edition on the NYRB website and it's on sale for 12.76 right now so that shouldn't be an issue.
Except Humbert is mentally ill so the Lolita user, while probably memeing, still has a point.
the hunger artist wasn't mentally ill he was an artist
>wasn't mentally ill he was an artist
That's an oxymoron ;^)
The New Testament
Is that Micolash?
infinite jest
Did you actually read the story? The whole point was that he did what he did because he hated food and eating.
I think its Laurence
The Art Of The Deal and its many sequels
The Blind Owl
This
U shuld right fir John oliver faggot
i never promised you a rose garden
Diary of a Madman by Gogol.
Despair by Nabokov
his most underrated book imo
Honestly I would bet a few hundred dollars the man is somewhere on the autism spectrum
Three cheers for Karamazov!
I guess im #MentallyHill now!