Who has written most compellingly (broadly and deeply) about the varieties of human experience? I'm struggling to articulate quite what I'm searching for here. I loved William James' book "The Varieties of Religious Experience", but it's quite descriptive, not quite internal enough I am, in part, talking about people who can capture many different types of interiority. Perhaps I should read Proust? The famous passage of the madeleine certainly captures something. But I suspect someone else has done this much better. Maybe Dostoevsky? I only read a little, and too young to really appreciate it; perhaps I would get more now Some very good fictional writers struggle with this. Cormac McCarthy is a wonderful writer, but every McCarthy character seems like a McCarthy character Answers to my question welcome, especially if you can articulate what they do well. And if you can deepen the sense of my question that'd be great, too

Oh, obviously Shakespeare! It *is* a great thing about Shakespeare. And, I suspect a great thing about plays (and movies), in general - the actors and directors can bring much more to it than even the script