One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand
Luigi Pirandello
the desire to be alone and the definition of solitude as being with a stranger (chapter III of Book I, chapter IV of Book I), the bitch in the empty lot to whom he confesses his fear of being looked at (chapter III of Book V), consciousness as the others within us (chapter IV of Book V), the horror of one's own solitude with no way out (chapter VII of Book V), the emptied house (chapter II of Book VI), and the irremediable solitude he describes to Anna Rosa (chapter VIII of Book VII).
White Nights
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
the three days of anguish when the city leaves and the faces known by sight disappear (First Night), the confession of one who has lived completely alone (Second Night), the pin that fastens Nastenka to her grandmother (Nastenka's story, Second Night), the solitude beside her at the moment she promises company (Third Night) and the same room fifteen years from now (Morning).