18th and 19th century writers sometimes took the idea of “self inserting” a bit too seriously

    by SatoruGojo232

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    1. Rubear_RuForRussia on

      Well, if you look on Dostoevsky biography, you’ll find funni moment.
      Namely he got arrested for participating in some illegal movement, got sentenced to death, sentence was revoked like in the very last second (as in exectuion was prepared to be enacted when he and others got news about it). And that moment hit him like a truck, changed his world view… really much. And the more i look on this and other moments, the more it seems that most of his main characters are in fact self-inserts.

    2. analoggi_d0ggi on

      Dante inserting himself in his poems, hanging with his fave roman poet & guided by his oneitis in Heaven:

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