Quote: (11-12-2016 10:06 AM)TooFineAPoint Wrote:
Actually, some of the red pillest shit of all time is Balzac's The Human Comedy.
Human Comedy is just an overall title given to the entirety of Balzac's literary output (which is a metric dick ton).
Two I recommend to start:
- Le Pere Goroit: about a young man who learns to be a social climber, seduce women, and gain political power. Basically he sees enough shit happen to decent men and takes enough shit from women, that the book is like a shedding of blue pill down to the very last drop. The last line of the book is famous, as he has completed the transformation and, standing on a hill overlooking Paris, shouts "it's between you and me now" (kind of like a more classy Scarface moment).
- La Rabouilleuse: two grown brothers and their mother navigate financial hardship after the fall of Napoleon. It's too hard to sum up the plot because it is a roving story of backstabbing and family fighting and provincial politics. There are lots of dark triad alphas and manipulative sluts involved.
The novels in La Comédie humaine also have recurring characters, so for example, if you like Vautrin from Le Père Goriot, you can find him in
other novels too. What a great collection of books.
I would also consider Howard Roark, from
The Fountainhead, to be a Red Pill character, at least in the beginning, although maybe he develops one-itis later. I think the reason for the seeming contradiction is that the author had a fantasy of being with a strong, heroic man who would nonetheless be devoted to one woman, to the point of not letting the fact that she slept around with other men get in the way of the relationship.
Then there's Joyce Cary's trilogy (
Herself Surprised,
To Be a Pilgrim, and
The Horse's Mouth), in which the penniless artist Gulley Jimson is able to pull the amoral Sara Monday, who says, "I too was one of those who can put their conscience to sleep when they like, just to please themselves." (Although I guess a woman's having that much honesty and self-awareness is not all that believable.)