>the protagonist is supposedly the one writing the book
>The protagonist is a sickly young man from a well-off family who kills himself at the novel's climax
>>8182077
The human stain pulled it off nicely
ulysses, technically.
Was it supposed to be so obvious in The Plague?
>>8182077
>One of the main characters is schizophrenic.
>>8182077
Ada was pretty good, though.
>the narrotor is the man that the protagonist talks too at the end and I was too dumb to understand that and would have missed it if I didn't read a review afterwords
>>8182117
Goethe is some real overrated shit
Napoleonic Twilight novels!
>>8183371
*talks to
>>8183236
Probably
>>8182077
>protagonist is writing the book
>protagonist dies at the end
>>8183363
How is that a problem. I'm reading kafka's metamorphosis and the whole thinking he's a bug sounds like a delusion he has. Words and phrases like Losing his mind, anxious, and disposition appear early on.
>>8182077
I'll do you one better
>Book is just preinternet creepypasta
>>8182077
>the opening scene is halfway through the book's plotline
>>8184225
How do you feel if the opening scene was from the viewpoint of someone at the very end?
>>8184225
What do you mean?
>the reader is writing the book
>>8184236
In media res??
>>8184225
En media res works well senpai
>>8184261
It's really hit and miss. Too many authors essentially make it *Record scratch* So I guess you're wondering how I got here? Funny story...
>>8184266
Here, I mean
Can be absolute patrician if done right, but its one of those things that will hardly ever be done right
>>8182077
>In the beginning the protagonist created the heavens and the earth
>>8185285
>the protagonist comes again to judge the living and the dead
>after the book ends
>>8182117
Tfw I was about to write about this