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506033 No.506033 [Reply] [Original]

I'm looking for a specific breed of novel, which may or may not exist. I was hoping one of you guys might've read something like it in your time.

Have you ever seen Eyes Wide Shut? It was sort of vaguely horrifying, and disturbing. Of course nothing was ever fully revealed or explained; the plot isn't structured, and the whole thing was an ominous odyssey.

I'd like to see something like that in a book. I thought maybe James Joyce or Samuel Beckett might've written something close to it, but... Joyce missed the mark, and Beckett only barely grazed it with some of his plays. I also thought Camus might have written something of the sort -- The Stranger was almost there, but I felt more like I had read an essay than involved in an emotionally taxing experience.

Anyway, open to suggestions.

>> No.506039

Kafka

>> No.506046

>>506039
I'll give him a try. I've always strayed away from Kafka because college kids are always "hurp derp metamorphosis what a literary classic durp"; I guess it got grating after a while and I wrote him off as an overexposed, outdated writer.

>> No.506049

>>506046
And yet you're perfectly fine with reading Joyce, Beckett, Camus..

>> No.506055

Have you read any of Beckett's novels?

>> No.506066
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506066

Somebody called?

>> No.506071

>>506066
He probably lays it on a bit too thick for what the OP's looking for

>> No.506078

>>506071
Yeah, Poe's a little too outright supernatural for this job. I want maybe a very, very fine hint of the supernatural, but nothing beyond an insinuation, or a dark portent.

>>506055
I've read How It Is, Molloy, and Malone Dies. I liked them all, but they bordered too much on outright insanity to satisfy me.

>> No.506081

>>506046
You'll want to read The Trial

>> No.506089 [DELETED] 

You know Eyes Wide Shut is based on a book, right?

Also you might try Nabokov's short story, he has quite a few like that. The Visit to the Museum especially.

>> No.506091

You know Eyes Wide Shut is based on a book, right?

Also you might try Nabokov's short stories, he has quite a few like that. The Visit to the Museum especially.

>> No.506090

>>506081
I'll give this a try. I've heard good things.

>>506089
Fuck, you're absolutely right. I'll most definitely give both a try.

>> No.506148

Murakami's 'After Dark' might fit the bill. It's pretty creepy. I've only read part of it, though.

>> No.506161

>>506033
The Trial by Franz Kafka seems to fit the bill. Christ, that was disturbing as fuck.

>> No.506172

Try Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49

>> No.506177

The Black Monk, by Chekhov, might be the kind of thing you're after?

>> No.506178
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506178

I suggest that you go back to Beckett. He wrote novels as well as plays, and his so-called trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable) seems like it might fit what you're looking for.

>> No.506179

Naked Lunch, but that's more of an acid trip.

>> No.506180

>>506178
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>>506078

>> No.506184

>>506033

Sorry to derail momentarily but where is your pic from, OP? I've seen it a few times now and it always confuses me...

>> No.506204

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco will be right up your alley.

>> No.506222

No Exit by Sartre