Woah that's literally me

Which character made you say: "Woah, that's literally me"?
For me it's Angustina from "The Tartar Steppe" by Dino Buzzati

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Could someone redpill me on this novel? This is the one Taleb really likes

Read Nabby's translation of A Hero of Our Time. it's better.

I'll read that as well (I've read at least one translation of Hero), but could you tell me a little about what you thought of Tartar Steppe?

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Harry potter desu

I was reading The Catcher In The Rye and felt that way about the protagonist. I cringe myself to sleep every night I thought about it

It's shit. I have read it in italian, and its an half assed excuse for a novel, where he just wrote a forty pages plot and filled the middle part with eighty pages of basically nothing claiming it to be "a stylistic choice". His writing style is "journalistic" in the worst meaning of the word: so simplistic to the point of being clearly zero effort. I would have bought the "stylistic choice" of repeating again and again the same two concepts in the middle part, because they were boring but had some sense i them in the context. Then I read "Un Amore" and was the same shit all over again, an uninspired Lolita knock off with idiotic streams of consciousness here and there.

Buzzati is an hack, please read good authors like Pirandello, Vittorini (even if I have something against him as a translator), Calvino, Sciascia, Eco.

It's great don't listen to the other user

This
Not this

The MC of Temple of Golden Pavilion

The ubermensch from Also Sprach Zarathustra

Based

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The Nonexistent Knight in The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino.
Particularly the segment when he's about to have sex.

The horse getting beaten in the street in Crime and Punishment.

Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin.

Only differences are that I did not get cucked (until now) and that my passion is literature instead of legal and political work.

captain fracasse desu

Sorry to be so preachy but you sound like an inexcusably simple-minded and easily impressed poser who needs a dense prose to feel rewarded.

Besides comparing authors whose themes are worlds away, I too could say Pirandello is a hack: all of his short stories are rehashed around the same events, character stereotypes and concepts. He also has very little integrity when it comes to language, writing in a sterile Italian, whereas Dino's approach to Italian is very calculated, twisting the typically informal northern register of the time until it's plain and accessible; it's not simple because he's stupid, it's simple because he made it so that it was clear.
The proof you have is that 70, 80 years later, Dino's works read as something that could come out today, and anybody who can read Italian can see by comparing anything from his works to something recent. None of the other authors you named hold up this way, not even any verbose Eco extract they use in exams.

Talking about the book itself, the aim of Buzzati was to portray a common viewpoint that works on multiple levels, from the concrete (military life, the italian naja, etc.) to the social (subtle critique to fascism, hazing in a helpless setting with no hope) with a smooth approach that speaks a lot, with precision, behind the scenes.
It went over your head completely because you can't read between the lines: in fact, ironically, all the authors you named put things forward bluntly, are pushed forward by the academic scholars, and are read in middle to early high school in Italy. Dino is one of the last-year alternatives, tops.

Buzzati stood on his own and his influence is recognized because he was a different type of talent.

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Tobin from Blood Meridian
Colonel Aurelino Buendia from 100 Years of Solitude

This book produced very strong impression for me, and I am quite well read. To be honest I don't remember who was Angustina but the end was so discomforting that I couldn't shake off some uneasiness for several days.

Adolescent from The Adolescent, that is when I myself was an adolescent.

Julien Sorel

tfw Ned

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>For me it's Angustina from "The Tartar Steppe" by Dino Buzzati
Based and redpilled, I felt the same way.

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>Never seen this book ever before on lit
>pick it up at a free book give away in a random building at my university
>finished it today
Very spooky

Isn't his other book about bears included in the Italian high school curriculum?
(Also great book btw)

>That Morricone valse theme

Just a Kafka Copy-Cat

Very superficial reading. Kafka transmits a very different atmosphere. He suffocates you, while this gives a bitter sadness

great book.

Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch even though I'm a male (male).