/lit/ - Literature

Basically I want a book that reads like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WQCzcHsAYg&t=0s&index=9&list=PL5UyaJ4tfEqxL5snKrrBGKC_PS2Tn9Maa

Which writers other than Wolfe and Pynchon have a knack for creating a character that lives in a different time - past or future - and makes you feel like he also THINKS different than people from our era?

Where do I begin in order to become a narratologist?

I already marked down Avatars of Story and Saussure's lessons. Help me create a curriculum.

Everyone should read Chiang's story about Golems (forgot the title). Possibly the biggest example of anti-literature I can think of, when someone who's not smart enough to be a scientist and not interested enough in writing to care about prose goes off on a tangent(s) about golem splicing and speciesm. Jesus Christ it comes back page after page to torment you.

That being said, he also wrote the best sci-fi short I've ever read, The Lifecyle of Software Objects. Strange man.