Why are there so few books where characters actually have to work? Seems like fiction is filled with people who have massive spans of free time or are students with magically regenerating pocket cash.
>but work is boring
>but muh escapism
ITT: books about people who work
Moby Dick
well i gather already you haven't read any classics
Well the Dresden files he's a detective and each book follows his case.
Also The Name of the Wind Kvothe is dirt poor so he has to find money and do jobs to go to magic school
The Junglle- Upton Sinclair
The reason for this is literature is written for aristocrats by aristocrats. If I had it my way you wouldn't even be allowed to read
Often books are written to skim past the part where they work for the sake of sparing the reading the grueling boredom of work for 90% of the book.
Or you're only reading books about upper class people that have never worked other than pursuing whatever academic pursuits they feel like.
>people need to work
Kafka, Camus, Faulkner all come to mind.
I don't think you've read enough.
Maybe they don't depict modern wage-slavery, but that's likely because life is heavily restricted and lacks depth in that system. Imagine a book about someone working >40 hours a week just to pay the bills, getting home and scrolling facebook and watching netflix until they fall asleep, only to get up in the morning and do it all again.
How could this book explore any complex ideas without having them realise that it's not how a person should live?
Do you realise that in non-USA countries it's fairly common to only work 3-4 days a week?
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
>Do you realise that in non-USA countries it's fairly common to only work 3-4 days a week?
Where? Every Anglo country is exactly the same, aside from things like guaranteed sick days that the US doesn't have
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In Germany you have to work 5 days a week.
Kafka - The Trial
A fiction about modern wage slavery sounds dope 2bh
Lord of the Rings. They work pretty hard in those books.
It's comforting to know that normies' lives are as empty as mine.
This is one of the reasons that bukowski is so popular since he talks about having to work quite a lot and he also talks about the shitty consolation one gets for being a slave.
>Who is Zola
>Dickens
>Hugo
>Sinclair
>What is realism
Is this any good? I picked it up based solely on its cover.
>3-4 days a week
What the fuck are you talking about you delusional retard, name 2 countries that do this
J.J. Voskuil - Het bureau
Good point.
Chad
Kekistan
The angry Balkanian.
I don't think that one is translated
this, fuck peasants
Read The Fountainhead; both white collar and blue collar works are described in detail. As well as the social and political stuff surrounding it.
Well-crafted bait. I did enjoy Name of the Wind, though. It was fun, but not really anything that's going to stand the test of time.
Platonov's the Foundation Pit is both the best and only novel you have to read about "work"
I liked this one
yeah, but that book fucking sucks, though.
Oblomov features many working characters
You could make an amazing Kafkaesque novel about this, borrowing heavily from the themes of The Trial
What don't you like about it?
Fuck Rand. If i wanna read cardboard cutouts I'll go to walmart. At least there im not wasting my time
here's a synopsis of every chapter:
>people want to subvert his ideals, but Roark is ubermench and rejects their attempts.
>for like 500 pages of wooden-assed prose
she cannot write, she cannot think. there is no discernible talent.
incoherent "philosophy" delivered by repetitve monologues, mc is a gary stu, oh yah and a woman enjoys her own rape and falls in love w the rapist. im pretty sure this "novel" was a thinly disguised power trip fantasy written by a woman who hated herself. the only ppl attracted to it are 15yo boys and potential rapists
does it say who drew the cover? i have a nostalgic fondness for that particular style
Because fictional works are for escapism. Why wage slaves want to read about working?
Because reading is work enough.
Fair enough, I didn't care for the cringe sex parts either and tried to hurry past them, the main character was brilliant but people like that do exist, so why not? I think there has to be more to call someone a gary stu. Main female character is the worst which is ironic.
I still thought it was a good read, the characters and their lives were interesting, the prose was great, and the story kept me turning the page easily. I'm closer to 51 than 15 desu.
because authors as a whole tend to be workshy fucks who cannot for a moment imagine what the word means, let alone conceive of their characters having to engage in it.
especially those with left-leaning tendencies, the fucking two-faced hypocrites.
Or, back in reality, because books are written for people who'll pay 20 quid for a hardback the day it comes out, which working people can't afford to. So they're written for wealthier audiences, and tell them what they want to hear.
The Jungle
as I said, cunt communist with a blinkered view of the world and of man in general.
why don't you read a book for a change?
I wouldn't mind a book like this
It's only translated to German, apparently.
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
>literally all about how work allocations would function in a truly anarchistic society
>anyone who treats the working class like actual people is a communist
You sure showed him
Martin Eden
Grapes of Wrath (about lack of available work, but still)