/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12807620]

Looking for books where the author is trying to say something unnamable, like Pessoa, who talks about gardens of abandoned gestures, houses inside of his head where old ladies knit, and an imaginary shore over the skyline of a storm. I wish that there were whole stories dedicated to this sort of surreal dream like stuff.

I'm kind of surprised that there aren't more stories that run on a very ethereal dream logic besides Pessoa and Kafka. One could say Dante, but that's very structured and logical in it's own way.

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[Anonymous No.12808329]

>>12807620
Any idea worth conveying has coupled to it logical structure, and where it doesn't, analogies exist to fill in the conceptual gaps. If an author is trying to say something unnameable he is either a hack or you're reading a woman's work.

[Anonymous No.12808352]

The attempt to say something unknowable almost always makes it mundane and knowable and therefore not much worth knowing. You can only communicate what you know and want others to know.

Try The Figure in the Carpet for an explanation. It won't satisfy the feeling you're looking for, though. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/645/645-h/645-h.htm

[Anonymous No.12808668]

>>12808329
>>12808352
Idk about that. Pessoa and Kafka do it pretty well, and pretty much all poetry does too. I'm just looking for stories which say something which no two people will understand the same way.

[Anonymous No.12808990]

>>12808668
>say something which no two people will understand the same way
...e...everything anon...

[Anonymous No.12809820]

>>12807620

I like your examples very much, OP, do you have more to share? Also, from what Pessoa works they come? You can post the original Portuguese if you like.