Saw this meme online and it really reminds me of The Idiot by Elif Batuman, and the character of Selin. There's a key moment in the book where Svetlana tells Selin that both of them see their lives and experiences as part of a narrative about their lives, which means that other people they encounter aren't perceived as real human beings but rather as side characters - which leads Svetlana to conclude that two such people cannot truly be close, and instead such people should be close with normal people. That's why The Idiot feels like an absurd or surrealist novel even though it's entirely set in the real world - it's because of Selin's voice and how removed from reality she is, because she's constantly turning everything she sees into a narrative.
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