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Norwegian Wood

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A Murakami novel featuring a quiet, intellectual, passive protagonist unlucky in love, used as an example of the 'sensitive young man' archetype.

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"Like, would a book with a protagonist like that of, say, Norwegian Wood, get published today? Could a man who is quiet, intellectual, passive, unlucky in love and with a since interest in the arts be presented as a protagonist without being viewed as, I don't know, some incel apologia?"
The 'Sensitive Young Man' trope · u/Mobile-Scar6857 · ↑139 · 2024-03-15
"It's depressing and funny. I'm in a good relationship but it makes me want to go hook up with some BPD girl just because."
Norwegian Wood by Murakami is a redscarepod essential · u/the_big_jeff · ↑31 · 2021-11-21
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