What book is this?

[kelby_lake]

I think the title starts 'Diary of A...' It's this man and he's dying of something, maybe something to do with the spine...?

[ImaginaryFriend]

You might be thinking of the diary of a madman by gogol but i think the character is just insane, not sure. hope that helped.

[billl]

I found this, you might want to look it over. Could be it.

http://www.amazon.com/Diary-Country-Priest-Novel/dp/0786709618/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246743007&sr=8-1

[Olga4real]

Maybe The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith?

[Frankie Anne]

I loved The Diary of a Nobody, Olga4real. :) Very funny.

[kelby_lake]

The book I'm looking for didn't look like it'd be funny. I think it was in a penguin classics cover, maybe modern penguin classics.

The guy might have been a cripple

[bazarov]

Hmmm... It's Dostoevsky - Notes from the Undergound.


I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor from spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it, though. Of course, I can't explain who it is precisely that I am mortifying in this case by my spite: I am perfectly well aware that I cannot "pay out" the doctors by not consulting them; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only injuring myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is from spite. My liver is bad, well--let it get worse!


http://www.online-literature.com/dostoevsky/notes_underground/1/

[kelby_lake]

Have done a search- think it must be Diary of A Dying Man. Wish I could find it online- it's not in my library :(

[JBI]

Perhaps A Madman's Diary from the collection A Call To Arms by modernist Chinese writer Lu Xun? (Wade Giles Lu Hsun).