Dear /lit/, I have been reading lots of postmodernism but I

Look at the sticky, wiki, etc.

>>8818150
>I am getting tired of le 20th century difficult prose man
You'll enjoy Joseph McElroy

revert to the greeks

The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone.

>>8818194
is he not more of the same? i picture W&M as the epitome of 'le 20th century difficult prose book'

>>8818150
This might be a very un/lit/ choice but I really love The Secret History by Donna Tartt. You get some fun friend-group-dynamics shit, some greek/other lit references, and a whole lot of tension. I thought it was really fun to read but also 'literary' enough to really feel worth reading. Really great characters IMO

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>>8818236
yeah I was shitposting. But to be fair, his prose is in a different class than Pinecone's. Pinecone's prode is difficult because it's so overloaded with details and cultural references that it's hard to keep everything straight. McElroy is difficult on a sentence-level, where the meanings of the sentences themselves are obscure.

It makes for a reading experience that's either pleasantly disorienting or frustratingly disorienting, depending on your disposition. Sometimes to escape you must go deeper.

>>8818282
er... not exactly sure how I managed to misspell "prose". My bad

>>8818282
>>8818286
no prob im thoroughly intrigued. what's a good starting point with mr mcelroy?

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>>8818407
I followed the /lit/ flowchart and started with the "Night Soul" short story collection. I liked some better than others, but all of them were the type that I struggled to get through but then they would pop up in my subconscious a few days later. I hear Smuggler's Bible, his first book, is a bit more "normal" since he hadn't quite found that obscure aesthetic yet, but that may not be what you're looking for. I have yet to read his other works, so I'd say start with the short stories - at least you won't sink a huge time investment into them if you don't like them, and can move on to Lookout Cartidge, Cannonball, etc. from there.

>>8818150
Unironically, George Saunders.

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>>8818567
just look at that doggo