Madmen
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Lately I have run across a few books and poems with mad characters and I want more.
Here's my list:
1. Bottom's Dream for Midsummers Nights Dream
2. Tom a Bedlam
3. Child of God - McCarthy
4.The Lost Scrapbook - Dara
5.The Recognitions - Gaddis
Give recs please
>>8019788
Define 'mad caracter' ?
>>8019788
the alice in wonderland
>>8019796
have you read the works I listed? Someone who makes no sense, or is heavily obsessive, the old definition of mad
>>8019788
op here, thought of another
The Tunnel by Sabato
>>8019788
Darl in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, although I think his whole family is a bit touched.
>>8019796
fookin mental innit
The Cat in the Hat
ophelia in the last act of hamlet
>>8021069
This, and also Quentin in The Sound and the Fury. Definition of crazy and obsessed, and extraordinarily interesting and well-written to boot. READ IT OP
>>8019788
King Lear
Also, motherfucking SAMUEL BECKETT
>>8023010
>SAMUEL BECKETT
Well which ones
>>8022735
ophelia's a corpse in the last act of hamlet
>>8023155
dead bitches be crazy
>>8019788
>Bottom's Dream for Midsummers Nights Dream
Bottom wasn't crazy at all. In some ways, he was one of the most sensible characters in the play.
