Recommendations for good books about a man living ahead of his time, struggling to share his ideas in the midst of a society of repression?
With a protagonist who's more clever than Winston
Mein Kampf
The art of the deal
>>7897151
If you're still thinking in terms of protagonists, you're actually 50-60 years behind the times.
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Dream of the Celt
The Recognitions
>>7897169
for the memes
>>7897151
Man Without Qualities perhaps?
the very hungry caterpillar
>>7897169
The OP perfectly described Hitler's situation as a young man after the war.
>>7897151
The Recognitions, kind of.
>>7897216
fair enough
>>7897151
The Book of Disquiet in some ways.. Pessoa comes across as incredibly well read in his numerous references to cosmology and modernist theory while both we're barely being fleshed out in the 20s. It's almost a shame he was never employed at a university.. but then we probably wouldn't have as much of his writings.
>>7897229
>today's lecture is about tedium, why I'd rather sleep than be awake for literally the rest of my life, and why lecturing in my minds fantasies is superior to doing it in class
The Seven Madmen/The Flamethrowers by Roberto Arlt
Hard To Be a God fits this pretty well.
Pretty short summary that doesn't reveal too much is
>Spacefaring society observes less advanced society secretly
>Main char is doing this during time of strife
>Struggle to stay passive and not intervene
Also has some pretty good stuff about the persecution of intellectuals and condemns fascism.
Last bonus is it's basically a 3 hour read (For me and I'm a very slow reader)
A Confederacy of Dunces
>>7897169
i chucked a bit
>>7897617
he's more le wrong generation
