From Dante to Tolstoy to Dan Brown, it seems like self inserts are and old technique with very different results depending of the author.
What are your favorite and most hated self inserts books or characters?
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Confederacy
of Dunces is essentially a self insert
Conan the Barbarian is allegedly a self insert because Howard got called a strag virgin
so much with Dark Agnes de Chastillon being based 
on the school 
teacher 
he dated and when they broke up he shelved the unfinished second 
book
The Blind
Owl is a self insert and is very good
In Search
of Lost Time is essentially autobiographical
Self inserts are preferable to proxies given that sufficient sincerity is present, otherwise it comes across as shallow and self aggrandizing. Best to have your self insert novel
be your suicide 
note or obscured enough 
that people don't know that your talking about yourself.
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So No Longer Human is the peak of self-insertion?
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Yes.
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Slaughterhouse-Five has three self-inserts
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