Two examples:
1: “Death of Ivan Ilych”, Leo Tolstoy.
2: “Notes from Underground”, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Both involve contemplation, albeit different endings, yet neither saying “X is correct, Y is wrong”— there’s room to interpret and enough moral grey areas to make for an interesting story of a suffering man.
by Xanriati
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Thanks, found a compilation with both stories in it at my local library. Thanks for the suggestion.
Maybe “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
I’m not sure I follow, because I thought both stories were quite clear about their negative opinion of their main characters.
Behold The Man by Michael Moorcock