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Anonymous Sat Oct 20 11:55:37 2018 No.11962828 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books similar to this? Stuff like nightmarish surrealism and industrial landscapes

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 12:07:36 2018 No.11962866 It's not really like Eraserhead, it's a bit more Mulholland Drive-sy but if want something unironically Lynchian check out the short story Teatro Grottesco by Ligotti. It's a very short but entertaining and "nightmarishly surreal" read.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 12:08:53 2018 No.11962869 my diary desu

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 12:38:35 2018 No.11962952 >>11962828 Marx

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 12:47:19 2018 No.11962985 >>11962828 Maybe try Ballard

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 12:49:19 2018 No.11962999 File: 20 KB, 301x475, 9981457.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11962828

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 13:02:15 2018 No.11963046 >>11962999 Jesus christ, I remember reading this. This fucking book sat in the back of my mind like some grotesque fungal infection, one of the few things I regret reading.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:52:43 2018 No.11963451 File: 253 KB, 640x445, tetsuya_ishida_16.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11962828 bump, i too would like some surreal nightmarish /lit/ too please.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 14:57:39 2018 No.11963465 >>11962828 Michael Cisco, Jeff Milhauser, David L. Rice, Leona Carrington, Kafka.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:17:21 2018 No.11964283 >>11962828 bump

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:25:15 2018 No.11964324 >>11962828 Between heroes and tombs

Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:26:41 2018 No.11964332

Lynch is all-style no-substance shallow obscurantist fluff for pseuds who think art is about being wowed by surreal visual effects, so probably either Finnegans Wake or (depending on your opinion, and despite having some actual content to his fluff here and there by accident) Samuel Beckett, who incidentally sucked the dick of the guy who wrote Finnegans Wake.

You could also try Pynchon, if you want middlebrow shit that pseuds force themselves to think they like because they were told it's supposed to be prestigious.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:29:25 2018 No.11964346 >>11962999 >Customers who bought this item also bought >Funko POP Hellraiser III: Pinhead

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:34:49 2018 No.11964377 >>11964332 >pfft x is for people who y telltale pseud logic

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 18:35:38 2018 No.11964383 >>11964324 the "Report on the Blind" chapter specially

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 19:04:33 2018 No.11964523 >>11962985 Ballard and Burroughs has been the obvious answer since the mid-70's. History really did end, and we're all stuck in a vapid repetitions hell now, I suppose.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 19:08:22 2018 No.11964546 its not a book, but try out this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xynvrod0P6k

Anonymous Sat Oct 20 19:11:56 2018 No.11964559
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>>11962828
I remember when I read Molloy I imagined it being set in an Eraserhead world. Even though the book is set in the countryside, the bleak, absurd main characters reminded me of each other.
>"Imagery from Dante is present throughout the novel"
Wikipedia
>"Degradation and vagrancy vacillate within the strange, surreal and at times ghastly world of Samuel Beckett’s novels"
Some guy on goodreads.

Dunno...

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 20:24:05 2018 No.11964845 >>11964332 Lynch is all-style no-substance shallow obscurantist fluff That is not true. All his movies make sense.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 20:29:42 2018 No.11964873 >>11962828 I don't know about books, but you haven't experienced post-industrialism nightmare surrealism until you've watched Tetsuo The Iron Man.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 20:30:12 2018 No.11964876 File: 10 KB, 250x400, AC_SY400.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 20:31:11 2018 No.11964882 >>11962999 Top 10 Books You Didn't Expect To Give You A Boner

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 20:44:55 2018 No.11964928 >>11964873 Drilled and rustpilled

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 20 23:39:07 2018 No.11965443 >>11962952 This, it's an economic novel

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 01:08:23 2018 No.11965700 >>11963046 >>11964882 Is this that alien parasite thing?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 01:13:58 2018 No.11965711 >>11964332 based

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 01:24:33 2018 No.11965736 >>11964377 Honestly

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 04:20:54 2018 No.11966086 motorman by david ohle

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 10:25:04 2018 No.11967022 File: 209 KB, 620x350, the-master-poster.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Any books like The Master?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 12:20:40 2018 No.11967411 >>11962828 Edward Gorey.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 12:39:17 2018 No.11967501 >>11967022 also curious about this. PTA is very literary yet nothing i've read has been similar

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 16:23:09 2018 No.11968633 21 days of Turin

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 17:08:46 2018 No.11968865 >>11964332 Eraserhead deals with some very clear themes. it may use surreal visuals to explore that but if you can’t understand that movie then I dont know what to tell you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 19:05:38 2018 No.11969407 >>11967022 This

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 20:28:27 2018 No.11969780 >>11962828 bump

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 22:27:31 2018 No.11970184 >>11964332 t. tryhard brainlet

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 22:28:59 2018 No.11970191 File: 716 KB, 1600x1065, AnimalMoneyfinal.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11963465 How good is Michael Cisco stuff?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 22:31:08 2018 No.11970199 >>11967022 Dianetics by L RON HUBBARD

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 21 23:50:51 2018 No.11970476 File: 24 KB, 324x499, 51LeCU+7zXL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] the lime twig, i've heard other john hawkes stuff is similar in nature but i haven't read anything else

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 01:32:19 2018 No.11970826 Naked lunch makes me feel grosser than 4chan

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 04:56:29 2018 No.11971355 >>11962828 Roland Topor: The Tenant (also a film by pedo Polanski)

Anonymous Mon Oct 22 05:54:08 2018 No.11971456

>>11964332
> Finnegans Wake
> Samuel Beckett
> Pynchon
> not substantial

"waaaaah look at me I don't understand thing therefore thing has no inherent merit also I was last chosen in gym class and my parents nicknamed me Duncan the dunce waaaah waaaaah diaper needs a change Duncan made a dundun"

That's you. That's what you sound like.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 05:55:11 2018 No.11971460 >>11964332 > he didn't realise the obvious "father struggling to accept fatherhood" theme how fucking dense can you be

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 05:56:12 2018 No.11971464 >>11967501 i'd like a book like Phantom Thread where some eccentric introvert makes beautiful dresses and becomes entangled in a dangerous relationship where "mummy" makes him better

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 06:02:22 2018 No.11971476 >>11962828 BECKETT E C K E T T

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 06:19:32 2018 No.11971509 File: 711 KB, 611x569, top smeck.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11964346 you've just sold me on it

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 06:31:09 2018 No.11971531 >>11964346 man I watched Hellraiser the other day, the original film, and it was sure as heck a very campy and silly movie but afterwards I actually had some awful nightmares about the cenobites so I suppose I must've found it scary

Anonymous Mon Oct 22 08:24:27 2018 No.11971785

>>11968865
Care to elaborate on those themes?

I'm not the guy you're responding to, I'm just curious.

Something about meagerness and how people just pretend things are fine and good (especially regarding horrible little babies) when in fact everything is terrible...is that at least partially correct?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 08:59:31 2018 No.11971890 >>11970476 This, his first novella Charivari is similar thematically regarding childbirth and presents that sort of external depication of fear and anxiety but not to such a surrealist level. It's the most similar thing to Eraserhead that i've read.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 11:16:05 2018 No.11972259 eraserhead

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 12:17:20 2018 No.11972436 >>11971531 since this is a /lit/ thread try the short story the film is based on, The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker. Also /mu/ recommendation for Coil's unreleased Themes for Hellraiser

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 12:18:37 2018 No.11972439 >>11972436 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4XidFz3NIg

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 22 16:30:30 2018 No.11973275 The Red Tower by Thomas Ligotti, quite literally. Some other stuff by Ligotti too, get a copy of Teateo Grottesco.

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