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I'm looking for a hyper-real book. Some say a character is flat and one dimensional. I want hyperdimensional, interdimensional, and cross-dimensional characters. I want a book which doesn't only have real descriptions, but descriptions which are ultra real, like psychedelic drugs real, descriptions beyond what the mind can even perceive with the senses.

>> No.12762774

>>12762755
The Bible

>> No.12762788

>>12762755
ulysses

>> No.12762799

>>12762774
That's pretty much the opposite of the bible, particularly Genesis. Flattest characters and a story flow which is literally lists of family trees of characters who are never mentioned again.

>> No.12762801

>>12762774
unironically this, you can´t go much further with written language than the Apocalypse of John

>> No.12762816

>>12762755
Unironically Gravity’s Rainbow

>> No.12762824

>>12762788
unironically this

>> No.12762828

>>12762755
pm me and I will tell you.

>> No.12762847

>>12762801

you dont know nothing about writing.

>> No.12762879

>>12762755
David Foster Wallace

>> No.12762890

>>12762774
>>12762788
>>12762816
>>12762879
Wow, lit's top 10 picks of the yearly vote, and I can't tell whether they're ironic or sincere suggestions. Thanks lit.

>> No.12762899
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12762899

War & Peace

>> No.12762901

>>12762755
Tolstoy or Proust. They capture even the tiniest details of the scenes and character behaviour, I could spend hours analysing just one paragraph of Anna Karenina.
Also, maybe you'd appreciate Erich Auerbach's book "Mimesis".
Just keep in mind that realism in art is kind of a spook.

>>12762774
A great deal of the beauty of the Bible lies in its vague narrative style instead of realism or precision in description.

>> No.12762905

>>12762901
The Bible isn't beautiful you brainwashed pretentious pseud.

>> No.12762907

>>12762755
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

>> No.12762983

>>12762755
1q84

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12763112

>>12762890
GR sounds about right

>> No.12763208

Unironically my WIP novel

>> No.12763252

>>12762755
>>12762801
I'm writing one. Not exactly a book though. 3 parallel streams. One of music, one of text, one of video. It's based on revelation.

>> No.12763275

>>12762890
How unironically ironic

>> No.12763336

>>12762755
The Man Without Qualities or Proust

>> No.12764328

Proust, Musil, and Tolstoy are good recs in this thread. Updike also gets heavily into this hyper-realistic style, as does James. I’d recommend Updike’s Rabbit books.

>> No.12765013

Balzac was all about realism try Old Man Goriot

>> No.12765897

>>12762899
Prince Andrei feels more real to me than real people

>> No.12766088

>>12762899
>>12762901
>>12765897
I have slight autism and am incapable of small chatting and conversation, and I am bad a reading or employing body language. Will I understand Tolstoy?
I read Anna Karenin when I was 18 and didn't feel like I got much out of it, should I give war and peace a try now that I'm in my late 20's?