What alienation means in literature, why writers keep returning to it, and the 19 works in the StoryBites library that explore it.
Alienation is the experience of being cut off — from other people, from society, from one's own work or self. In modern literature especially it is the defining condition: a character surrounded by others yet fundamentally alone.
Alienation gives voice to a distinctly modern ache and lets writers critique the systems — industrial, bureaucratic, social — that produce it.
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