pic related is one of my favorite novels of all time. What else

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2017-02-01 05:37:57 Post No. 9048009
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:37:57 Post No. 9048009 [Report]

pic related is one of my favorite novels of all time.

What else can you recommend that's similar? Something that is, essentially, just the surreal description of madness and chaos for the duration of an entire book? Possibly with some allegory or political/social commentary thrown in.

I've read my Kafka, so let's not go there, /lit/.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:44:52 Post No.9048044
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:44:52 Post No.9048044 [Report]

Irzykowski - Pałuba

Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:47:27 Post No.9048053
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:47:27 Post No.9048053 [Report]

>>9048044
Has this ever been translated to English?
I would love to learn Polish, sure, but haven't exactly made plans to do so any time soon.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:49:43 Post No.9048059
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>>9048053
nope

Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:53:23 Post No.9048068
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:53:23 Post No.9048068 [Report]

Great novel. The obvious answer is the good PKD books, like A Scanner Darkly.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:54:31 Post No.9048073
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:54:31 Post No.9048073 [Report]

>>9048068
I've given PKD many chances over the year without ever connecting to any of his work and his name always comes up, so maybe there's something wrong with me

Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:56:23 Post No.9048079
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 05:56:23 Post No.9048079 [Report]

>>9048073
A lot of his books are dumb. A Scanner Darkly is just a good ol American novel though, about paranoia and drug abuse and government surveillance.

Maybe I'd also recommend Huysmans, 'La-bas' and 'En Rade,' it's not sf or anything but it is jut a narrator wandering through craziness

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>>9048009
Haven't read Memoirs Found in a Bathtub, but based on your description Titus Groan and Gormenghast fit. There's a plot, but it's really backstage to descriptions of setting and characters, all of whom are bizarre/mad. Sort of a social commentary.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 06:28:12 Post No.9048191
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Ernesto Sabato's The Angel of Darkness, maybe.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 06:42:38 Post No.9048233
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Beckett's trilogy works for this.

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>>9048009
The Other Side by alfred Kubin
it fits all criteria
pic related, he was an illustrator too —this is not one from the book itself

Anonymous 2017-02-01 07:23:47 Post No.9048343
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 07:23:47 Post No.9048343 [Report]

Thanks for all the top tier recommends, /lit/.
Shame on me for making this thread after just digging into something else, but it's all going on my to-read list.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 08:27:30 Post No.9048584
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 08:27:30 Post No.9048584 [Report]

>>9048009
Gogol's Diary of a Madman. It's short and very funny, it has a bit of social commentary and just that tiny pinch of the tragic that Gogol likes to hide at the core of even the most lighthearted pieces and that always hits you when you've let your guard down.

Anonymous 2017-02-01 08:45:14 Post No.9048673
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Anonymous 2017-02-01 08:45:14 Post No.9048673 [Report]

I haven't read Memoirs yet and I'm sure they are very different, but have you read A Perfect Vacuum by Lem?
There are a couple "stories" in there you might enjoy.

Anonymous 2017-02-02 03:37:38 Post No.9049837
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Anonymous 2017-02-02 03:37:38 Post No.9049837 [Report]

>>9048053
it has been translated, twice.

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