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I'm looking for a protagonist who is actually alienated from humanity and not just a disturbed human like in pic related.
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make it about an AI that was put into a human body and dropped into a city with nothing.
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Steppenwolf?
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>>8221499
Old Axolotl by Dukaj (polish sci-fi writer)
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>>8221551
>>8221597
Not looking for science fiction, sorry.

>>8221556
I have this on my reading list, guess I'll move it up. Thanks.
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>>8221556
The protagonist in Steppenwolf is definitely disturbed.

How about The Stranger? The protag isn't really disturbed, just super bored.

Or pretty much anything by Bukowski.
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>>8221499

Anything by D.F. Wallace
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Vitangelo Moscarda
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>>8221665
>The Stranger
This is in part what I was thinking of when I created this thread. He isn't nearly a Stranger enough for me. Sure he's different from most people, but he has no issues interacting with them. There's a certain distance that I'm looking for that's missing from The Stranger.
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>>8221499
Try Metamorphosis?
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>>8221678
idk if this is a joke but i laughed
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>>8221499
/lit/ is the only place I know where people frequently complain that Yozo had it good
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Notes from underground
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>>8221776
You can take a walk at /r9k/ and portrait their dialogues.

I'm serious
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My diary desu I'm sorry not sorry, sempai~
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Notes from Underground is probably your best bet
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>>8222955
I'm not saying Yozo had it good, his problems are just on a different level to the ones I'm interested in.
I don't think "No Longer Human" is a fitting description of Yozo's conditions though.
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>>8222962
>>8223807
I've read it. I guess it sort of goes in the right direction, with the story with the policeman and so on, the story with the prostitute kind of ruins it though. He doesn't live in great enough (figurative) distance to the rest of humanity.
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a rebours?
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>>8221499
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Michel from The Elementary Particles
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>>8221499
>Boborikine is now my favourite name
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