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Anonymous Mon Jul 22 06:29:44 2019 No.13508802 [Reply] [Original]

What are some books set in infinite, endless structures such as labyrinths, or maybe even cities? Where the "outside" if it exists is never shown or briefly, maybe at the end. For example some works of Kafka or "Library of Babel" by Borges. There are other examples not really /Lit/ related like Blame!, Portal or the movie Nirvana.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 06:30:37 2019 No.13508804 My psychiatry report desu

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 06:34:16 2019 No.13508812 Borges and Kafka suck, discuss

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 06:35:48 2019 No.13508817 >>13508812 You're a bore and cack, dick suck

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 06:38:02 2019 No.13508825 >>13508802 >Where the "outside" if it exists is never shown or briefly gormenghast

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 06:50:15 2019 No.13508874 >>13508802 There's that one Lovecraft story. The Outsider.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 07:02:32 2019 No.13508917 >>13508874 Nice story >>13508825 Interesting, thank you

House of Leaves Guy Mon Jul 22 07:16:19 2019 No.13508955
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>>13508802
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski.

The Navidson Record in the book is about an extradimensional space in his house that is an endless black labyrinth.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 07:19:37 2019 No.13508969 >>13508802 Thomas Jech - Set theory

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 07:20:25 2019 No.13508972 Anti-Oedipus

Anonymous Mon Jul 22 07:27:29 2019 No.13508999

>>13508802
Samuel Beckett’s How It Is. The story is confined to the perspective of a man crawling face down through the mud, doesn’t know where he’s come from nor where he’s going, yet feels compelled to recite an ancient story. It’s not quite what you’d call labyrinthine, but the way the narrative is structured means there are near infinite permutations of how the story unfolds. You can read it as a cyclical loop, a mobius strip, an interminable chain or even a singular non-decomposible unit that is multiplied to the nth term. It’s at once excruciatingly solipsistic and yet hints towards an unfathomable totality just out of reach.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 07:33:51 2019 No.13509022 >>13508969 >not Enderton

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 07:36:06 2019 No.13509033 >>13508999 Sounds interesting.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 22 07:40:09 2019 No.13509048 >>13508812 Borges sorta sucks, but Kafka's just a hit or miss genius.

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