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Books suggestions that have a central motif of aimlessness ?
I have searched a little and found "The Stranger" so im gonna go read it at my library in an hour, anything else that can suggest?
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franny and zooey by j.d. salinger
same author of the catcher in the rye; when u said aimlessness i thought of those two books, but everyone read the catcher in the rye in high school. i could be misremembering the themes of franny and zooey but i think it may have what ur looking for
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My Diary desu.
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Please stop talking to me. You're making me uncomfortable.
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>>25328105
A Man Asleep by Georges Perec is far more about aimlessness than the Stranger.
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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
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Le Feu Follet by Drieu la Rochelle
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Mikhail Lermontov, ‘A Hero For Our Time’

Samuel Beckett, <Practically everything he wrote>

Evelyn Waugh, ‘Vile Bodies’, ‘A Handful Of Dust’

Iris Murdoch, ‘Under The Net’

Joseph Heller, ‘Something Happened’
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no longuer human by osamu dazai has an aimlessness emement to it, but its much more about the weakness and of the main character
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>>25328105
>The Stranger
You have to be 18 to post here, Anon
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V. by Pynchon

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