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Book Recommendation

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  • 16-08-2009 5:05pm
    #1
    godspal
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭


    I am looking for literature where the protagonist/characters are obsessed with their legacy.


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    #2
    ilovenerds
    Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭ilovenerds


    Haha, that's an easy one! Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol... Also known as last months book club choice!:D


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    randomguy
    Registered Users Posts: 285 ✭✭randomguy


    Illywhacker by Peter Carey - an old unreliable Australian character trying to tell the story of his life so that he won't be remembered badly.
    The Untouchable, John Banville - the narrator keeps a journal to try to control how he is remembered after he is outed as a spy.

    Those two came to mind, but are both cases where the book itself, the narration, is an unreliable effort to control how the narrator is remembered, to control his legacy. Maybe you are looking for ones where the central character is obsessed with their actual legacy, if so will try to think of a few.


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    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    Death of a Salesman


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