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>Unreliable narrators
>Description (like gratuitous amounts of description. Like, Proust-level description)
>Realistic fiction with implied supernatural elements (like Marquez or Borges)

>> No.7056293

>Realistic fiction with implied supernatural elements (like Marquez or Borges)
This is called Magical Realism.

>> No.7056299

>>7056293
Wasn't aware of the name of that style. Thanks, anon!

>> No.7056403

>lots of characters
>intricate plots
>realistic dialogue

>> No.7056430

>>7056403
Same. Also dry humor or groaners.

>> No.7056432

>>7056288
I bet you would like shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz zafon.
Speaking of which.
Anyone know of any other books like this?
I love it. It's like a love letter to novels and books that whisk you away. It is the ultimate storytelling novel. The peak of fiction that doesn't aspire to "change the game."
Basically what I wish I wrote like.

>> No.7056437

Mystical/dreamlike feeling
Poetic prose
Nuanced character interaction

>> No.7056442

>unpredictable resolution

I really enjoy the hopelessness before the resolution (if there is a resolution)

>> No.7056444

Art about art (i.e. books about authors, artists, etc.)
Metafiction
Classical music

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>>7056288
>>7056437
>>7056444
all of you should read the unconsoled

>> No.7056455

>>7056451
I started two threads on it talking about how it's one of my favs and no one else has read it.

>> No.7056457

>>7056444
>>7056455
Samefag btw.

>> No.7056459

chicks with dicks

>> No.7056467

>>7056455
well, it's also my favourite. keep spreading the good word

>> No.7056542

>>7056451
I've only read The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant but both are A+. gonna look for this one and Never Let Me Go next time I'm at a bookstore

Oh and I like
>psychological depth
>ambitious novels of ideas
>work that straddles the literary/genre divide (Pynchon, Le Guin, etc.)

>> No.7057948

>>7056451
Thanks bro!

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>plots where it seems like "nothing happens" but when when you look for clues and change the perspective just slightly the most serious shit is going on in the background

>> No.7057961

De repente: Chico Buarque.

>> No.7057964

>>7057956
Guessing you already read Gene Wolfe's Peace?

>> No.7057965

>>7057956
book of the new sun

>> No.7057969

>>7057964
>>7057965

I actually haven't read Wolfe yet, but he's gone up in the reading list now.

>> No.7057979

>>7056288
Infinite Jest, not even trolling

>> No.7057981

>>7057969
For sure, infact Peace is notorious for that exact effect you've mentioned.

>> No.7058867

>Books where things happen that could not possibly be depicted in film, painting, or any other media.

>> No.7059045

>>7056288
Moby-Dick

>>7056403
Any Pynchon

>>7056437
Calvino

>>7057956
Warlock

>> No.7059073

>>7058867
Lovecraft?

>> No.7059107

>>7058867
house of leaves

>> No.7059125

>>7058867
The nose

>> No.7059175

>>7056288
Jane Eyre for the third bit.