Are there any books about unreciprocated love? I'm going

>>9225679
my diary tbqh

>>9225679

goethe's werther.

>>9225689
his diary

>>9225679
The Portrait of a Lady
Caspar Goodwood is the ultimate robot in literature
Ralph Touchett is a NEET.

>>9225679

ishiguro's remains of the day
sorry if thats a spoiler

El túnel

Swann's Way, Lolita, Don Quixote (in Spades), King Lear.. unreciprocated love comes in many flavors.

>>9225793
>King Lear.. unreciprocated love
For who? Edmond and Regan? or do you mean to implicate familial love?

>>9225799
Lear for his daughters; Lear's daughters, with the exception of Cordelia, for Lear. Of course, Cordelia begins as the one non-lover of the bunch, the irony on which the world of the play turns.. Lear only finally learns to love, but must pay for it with his life, and with the life of the precocious daughter who loved him all along. This is a harrowing tragedy.

>>9225949
All the 'love' in other words is unreciprocated. In fact, 'unreciprocated love' is -actual love's- stand in. Only Cordelia really loves, perhaps because she's the only one in the play who really knows how. In this play, love is a kind of genius, Cordelia its sole possessor, until the end, of course.

Objectively: Cordelia's love for her father is not reciprocated, until the end, when there's no term to receive it.

>>9225949
I was more touched by Edgar's love of Gloucester desu.

I also think its dishonest to classify Cordelia as a'non-lover' of Lear in the beginning. She just doesn't want to be fake. Her sisters are tremendous boasters, and Cordelia is too principled to go along with it. She professes to love him as much as her bond demands (evidently quite a lot), and makes the reasonable assertion that she cannot be wholly devoted to her father as her sisters claim, for what of her future husband? I know that if my wife was more in love with her father than with me, I would not be pleased. It's unnatural.

>>9225987
>Only Cordelia really loves
see: Edgar's love of Gloucester
see: Goneril's love of Edmond
see: The servant's love of Gloucester
see: Kent's love of Lear

>>9225993
Well, youre correct, it's unfair. But it's precisely this unfairness that moves the play, Sempai.. I did throw it in quotes..

>>9226004
Yes, but in each of these there is a master, and there is a servant. The entire play is clearly ABOUT love relationships of all shapes and sizes. But the KEY instance of LOVE UNRECIPROCATED is clearly Cordelia's for Lear.

>>9226025
you said:
>Objectively: Cordelia's love for her father is not reciprocated, until the end, when there's no term to receive it.

which isn't true (depending on what you mean by 'term'). she lived to see her father slay her executioner, and before that he had praised her as they went merrily along to jail.

It's nearly a 1:1 parallel of Edgar's situation.

>>9226040
Ok, by 'term' I meant a living Cordelia to receive her father's love, poor fool. Often, the actress who plays Cordelia plays the fool, as well..

>>9226060
She eventually received everything but the inheritance- I believe in material aspect it was enough for Cordelia that she became Queen of France. Compare her with Antigone, who necked herself before anyone could vindicate her self-sacrifice.

Love is reciprocated in Lear, it's just daunted by insecurities preyed upon by wretched upstarts.

>>9226081
I agree, but that's how the play resolves. Getting there was all plotting murder and madness. The older I get, the more I love this play-- I absolutely hated it as a kid, along with As You Like It.

A recent one

The Goldfinch

It borders on YA but I enjoyed it