What are some books where the main character is decidedly the

>>9846470
Melmoth the Wanderer, The Petty Demon, Lolita

>>9846477
>Melmoth the Wanderer
I've seen it more often than usual on /lit/ these past months and it looks wild, I'll give it a go

Paradise lost
1984

Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great parts 1 & 2.
MacBeth
The Human Beast (Zola)
Madame Bovary
Crime and Punishment

>>9846470
Iliad.

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American psycho

The Stranger, depending on your interpretation. my interpretation is that the character is obviously a narcissist with definite sociopathy, or some other personality disorder

>>9846470
The picture of Dorian Gray

>>9848297
>Madame Bovary
>vilain

wtf

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MONTRESOR

>>9849597
She is kind of terrible. Maybe he meant Vanity Fair?

>>9849597
Thought query was something like CONSCIOUSLY chooses to be the bad guy. In Bovary that would have to be the Madam, much as we perhaps sympathize. Her crime was to expect life to yield more than it is capable of yielding, i.e. of not becoming some femme philosoph, -Bouvard's sister, or Pecuchet's!

>>9848378
delet this

Diary of Anne Frank

Bel-ami by Guy de Maupassant

>>9848297
>Madame Bovary
>Crime and Punishment
THE villain; not, has villain-like characteristics, but, is literally THE villain. In C&P that asshole who tries to marry Dunya is more the villain than Raskolnikov is, and Madame Bovary --- well, she's very unlikable at times, but I wouldn't call her the villain of the novel, lmao

>>9849291
Again, he explicitly said not The Stranger.

>>9846470
Perfume

120 Days of Sodom

The fountainhead

>>9848991
Kind of.

Always thought that point is he is really a victim. I mean, by the end I felt sorry for the fucker.

>>9849291
>we could read interesting philosophical ideas into this text and then discuss them by themselves or in relation to the text
>but no he was just crazy lol
I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying you're boring.

>>9851938
Protagonist of Less Than Zero is much closer to Villain when you think about it. You kind of understand Bateman's emotions while Clay does not seem to have many, or just does not give a shit about anything.

>>9846611
But Jesus is the main character of paradise lost.