so I was just thinking today about how much I liked the trial for its ability to totally and completely annihilate any sense of reality without really relying on any special literary techniques/tricks; it's pretty amazing what he was able to do with just simple prose and strength of plotting. was thinking what other books have also done this for me, and of course there's philip k. dick, of which ubik stands out for me the most. and also 'the nose' (I will get started on dead souls this week, hopefully). so what other books are out there that do this? if it helps, I'm thinking sort of like the literary equivalent of after hours.
― dyao, Sunday, 24 January 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/f9/e1/fb5281b0c8a0ca8f89ce8110.L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n26/n131063.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)
http://davidlavery.net/Courses/6650_7650/Images/Third_Policeman.jpg
― Geoffrey Mujangi Bia-Curious (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:16 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.hamsun.dk/images/galleri/fronte/front_hunger_bly1967.jpg
― C0L1N B..., Sunday, 24 January 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)
^ this was gonna be my suggestion tooalso native son.
― harbl, Sunday, 24 January 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)
i don't know if the latter is like what you're looking for though
Ooh, Hunger and Third Policemen are great suggestions.
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:15 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n745.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:41 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n1/n5233.jpg
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n948.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:44 (fifteen years ago)
http://christybharath.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/waspfactory.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:45 (fifteen years ago)
http://media.us.macmillan.com/jackets/500H/9780312280444.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:47 (fifteen years ago)
http://media.us.macmillan.com/jackets/258H/9780312422332.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:52 (fifteen years ago)
http://meerchant.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kobo_abe_the_woman_in_the_dunes.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.faber.co.uk/site-media/onix-images/folded_leaf.jpg
― Blue Fucks Like Ben Nelson (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:54 (fifteen years ago)
http://forum.connpost.com/joe/baby.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 24 January 2010 23:59 (fifteen years ago)
http://226-design.com/web/rough-front/2008/strangers-on-a-train.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 25 January 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)
http://people.ucsc.edu/~jasalvad/Pictures/i-have-no-mouth.jpg
― Brad C., Monday, 25 January 2010 00:03 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n0/n709.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 25 January 2010 00:04 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.popcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/johnny-got-his-gun.jpg
http://www.jgballard.ca/images/highrise/highrise250.jpg
― Brad C., Monday, 25 January 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.mgodding.biz/bookpix/026435.jpg
― Brad C., Monday, 25 January 2010 00:08 (fifteen years ago)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3108/2699662857_b55d28a214.jpg
― Brad C., Monday, 25 January 2010 00:16 (fifteen years ago)
all of these look good - thanks guys!
― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Monday, 25 January 2010 07:03 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.larsenbooks.com.au/pix/11799.jpg
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Monday, 25 January 2010 07:34 (fifteen years ago)
And for something much trashier...
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0881847259.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
― Attention please, a child has been lost in the tunnel of goats. (James Morrison), Monday, 25 January 2010 07:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n25/n126153.jpg
― Geoffrey Mujangi Bia-Curious (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 January 2010 10:14 (fifteen years ago)
fukkin picture threads >_>
― thomp, Monday, 25 January 2010 10:36 (fifteen years ago)
relys lots of literary techniques but deserves be in a thread of such a title
http://ciccoricco.net/teaching/FinalProject07/Todd_House_of_leaves.jpg
― dumb mack maine follows (a hoy hoy), Monday, 25 January 2010 10:41 (fifteen years ago)
http://images.indiebound.com/312/725/9780679725312.jpg
― 'virgin' should be 'wizard' (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 25 January 2010 14:00 (fifteen years ago)
Anything by Jim Thompson or John Hawkes.
Also: everybody otm.
― the clones of tldr funkenstein (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 January 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/greatest-book-covers/48-1.jpg
― the eagle laughs at you (m coleman), Monday, 25 January 2010 20:40 (fifteen years ago)
paul auster's new york trilogy. actually kind of a horrible experience reading those.
― aarrissi-a-roni, Monday, 25 January 2010 20:44 (fifteen years ago)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/17/Ambler_-_Passage_of_Arms.jpg
― the eagle laughs at you (m coleman), Monday, 25 January 2010 20:46 (fifteen years ago)
kinda lit 101 but it really freaked me out the first time I read it
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilyich.jpg
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 25 January 2010 21:31 (fifteen years ago)
speaking of tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata.
― scott seward, Monday, 25 January 2010 21:51 (fifteen years ago)
reading this thread w/imgs off
― b( ۠·_۠·)b (Lamp), Monday, 25 January 2010 21:53 (fifteen years ago)
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/8f/c5/71c1e893e7a0bdecb556f010.L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2362/2217685798_bae9e64224_m.jpg
― b( ۠·_۠·)b (Lamp), Monday, 25 January 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2166/2133925822_a0fea89a87.jpg
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 25 January 2010 22:09 (fifteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51i0h6QsTOL._SS500_.jpg
― scott seward, Monday, 25 January 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n11/n59960.jpg
^ seriously wish i'd never read it
― take me to your lemur (ledge), Monday, 25 January 2010 22:57 (fifteen years ago)
http://www.dandyism.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/a-rebours-cover-picture.jpg
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 03:14 (fifteen years ago)
also, a tip: don't GIS "against nature"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 03:15 (fifteen years ago)
http://penumbrae.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/maldoror.jpg
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)
http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/t0/t1039.jpg
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 03:22 (fifteen years ago)
passage of arms seems a bit of an odd one. kind of a cool book though.
― thomp, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 18:21 (fifteen years ago)
http://i.tkpf.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cosmos.png
― Zeno, Thursday, 28 January 2010 07:26 (fifteen years ago)
Thomas Bernhard and Elfriede Jelinek both spring to mind
― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 28 January 2010 07:46 (fifteen years ago)
i forgot one. Dyad by Michael Brodsky. made me dizzy. and it felt like i was stuck in a mad scientist's brain.
he writes like this (only even more extreme in dyad):
"The toy debauch, the toy affliction, the toy affair, demonstrates among other things that the act most loathed–encounter with a clerk of the court–is the act most devoutly wished because the only road albeit through shame to authentic warranty. The toy episode, the toy affair, demonstrates that the toymaker’s scowl, because it inflicts a painy shame and shameful pain, does not lie, installs me in a world beyond the need for verification where contradictions no longer rampantly subsist untamed by the law of mutual exclusion. The scowl ensconces at last in a world of either/or. Either the toys were returned or they remain on the highest shelf in the soccer field’s smallest closet. When my son came home the toys were definitively gone. He never suspected the enormity of my debt to toys, to their maker and taker. He never suspects that it is only through this marginal event that I am able for the first time to tell the father/son disease as I live it, as it was meant to be told. And by naming wrongly and in general–father, son, toy–marginality salvages itself from the slagheap of the too-specific and becomes everybody’s autobiography, that is, cure. Only through toys, oh my son, and the father-son-toy triad, oh my son, do I worm notochord into that robust territory (of father-son business ventures: foreign direct investment in good health and good housekeeping) too long estranged from a claimstaking prerogative as rightful as anybody else’s; my own."
http://www.literal-latte.com/1994/09/the-son-he-must-not-know/
― scott seward, Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:46 (fifteen years ago)
saw this title and said "HUNGER" but of course someone suggested it
i have images off so i dont know what else ppl have said but really any one of those first-half-of-the-20th-century-modernist-studies-of-consciousness about some alienated dude wandering around--i.e. hunger, anxiety of the goalie at the penalty kick, blind owl
― max, Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:48 (fifteen years ago)
er goalies anxiety isnt first-half-of the 20th century but evn so
― max, Thursday, 28 January 2010 15:49 (fifteen years ago)