Why Modern Fiction Is So Obsessed With Lonely People

Loneliness has become one of contemporary fiction’s most persistent emotional climates. Its protagonists live in crowded cities, work beside colleagues, maintain relationships and scroll through endless streams of other people’s lives, yet somehow remain unreachable. The paradox feels distinctly modern because physical proximity no longer guarantees intimacy. Increasingly, novelists are interested in what happens when connection is technically everywhere but emotionally unavailable.

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