The protagonist is not interested in the plot or is just apathetic to life. A kind of disconnect between reality and the character.
Similar books I feel exhibit this:
– We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
– The Stranger by Albert Camus
– Perfume by Patrick Süskind
– Novels by Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night especially
– Several short stories of Jorge Louis Borges
– Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin
Thank you
by IlCiompi1378