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What are some
Dream-like books
Books that read like dreams
Books with dreamlike prose
Books that are about dreams
Etc thanks lit

>> No.17230356

>>17230340
Your special by xim xom
I dont even know if you can still find it
One of my favorite book

>> No.17230376

>>17230356
Wtf is this

>> No.17230401

>>17230376
Read it youll see, first part is great but i think he forced his inspiration in the second part, still great read

>> No.17230405

>>17230340
Almost Transparent Blue gets increasingly dream-like/drugged up as the book goes on.

>> No.17230413

Bump for interest

>> No.17230418

>>17230340
Have you tried Finnegans Wake?

>> No.17230421

the unconsoled!1!1!!

>> No.17230462

>>17230340
Moscow-Petushki by Erofeev, which I enjoy shilling here, is very dreamlike. More of a fever dream. The Foundation Pit by Platonov and Envy by Olesha are both very dreamlike and borderline surreal. That is if you can stomach Russian 20th century post-modernism. I know a lot of people don't like postmodernism, but to me Russia postmodernism was different considering the historical context that the authors experienced. These are all short reads as well.

>> No.17230527

>>17230340
based whistler poster. ummm to answer your question kafka fulfills this in a sense where the absurd is just accepted similarly to how it is accepted in dreams as well.

>> No.17230536

Interested in responses. I can no longer dream when I sleep, so I'm kind of curious.

>> No.17230547

The Blinded Owl is pretty dreamlike.

>> No.17230556

>>17230536
what happened to you anon

>> No.17230571

>>17230340
Pedro Paramo is top-tier trippy dream core

>> No.17230613

>>17230340
The Man Who Was Thursday

>> No.17230620

nightwood by djuna barnes - she has such a sinister, intense prose style. it feels poisonous, but in a good way.

i remember liking this essay by tyrus miller, where he describes how the characters in nightwood flicker in and out of coherence - how they present as vivid, realist "individuals" one moment and then dissolve back into undifferentiated text the next. i think that helps explain why the novel is so slippery and uncanny.

but anyway it's very dreamlike. highly recommend

>> No.17230635

>>17230340
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

>> No.17230675

>>17230556
I'm not sure. I haven't had a dream in about a year in a half.

>> No.17230737

>>17230675
I can only dream when I sleep at odd hours. Like if I sleep in, and then go back to sleep after waking up. Or if I nap.

>> No.17230758

>>17230340
Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser
The Other Side by Kubin
On the Marble Cliffs by Jünger

>> No.17231314

>>17230340
>>Books that read like dreams
>Books with dreamlike prose
>Books that are about dreams
Just pick any book by Haruki Murakami mate.

>> No.17231318

>>17231314
No. Just no.

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>>17230340
Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz

>> No.17231328

bruno schulz is great

>> No.17231466

>>17230340
Ex Oblivione by Lovecraft, though that is a prose poem and not a full on story. It takes place in Lovecrafts "Dreamlands" world, very dreamy imagery like iridescent arbors and an underground world of purple twilight. It is just a short poem but Lovecraft has a series of short storys and novellas set in the Dreamlands that I would assume are just as surreal, but I have yet to read them.

>> No.17231492

>>17231318
reddit. leave.
>hard boiled wonderland
>most borges
>paranesi
>on a winters night a traveller

>> No.17231557

>>17231314
This what you get when you forgot to put "good" in the request.
To answer OP, Alice in Wonderland is an obvious one

>> No.17231563

>>17230340
My diary desu
Yes I take DMT

>> No.17231574

>>17230340
Proust.

>> No.17231601

>>17230340
Quest for Unknown Kadath (and many other works by Lovecraft)
Stories from St. Petersburg (Gogol)

>> No.17231694

>>17230340
Master and Margarita

>> No.17233336

>>17230737
Interesting, hm...

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17233402

>Lost in the Funhouse
>A Wild Sheep Chase

>> No.17233419

In Search of Lost Time. Haven't read it, but the first pages were about dreaming. The book as I understand is a recollection of the authors events in life, so there you go.

>> No.17233433

>>17231466
a quite pretty little work, i like Ex Oblivione too

>> No.17233444

>>17230405
Could anyone who read this book explain the appeal? I think if you didn't partake in degenerate activities then most likely you'll drop this book after you realize it's just drugs, sex and disturbing imagery. Is it its purpose? To make you hate these things and people even more? Is it a warning of what not to become? Or is liking it a clear sign that jewish brainwashing was successful?