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What are some good books with unreliable narrators, inconsistent perceptions of reality etc

I suppose as an extension, about mental illness and paranoia

>> No.7757801

my diary t b h which i'm converting into a epistolary novel about depression and mental illness in modern youth.

>> No.7757806

The Odyssey

>> No.7757811

>>7757650
No Longer Human, but I guess you've read that one.

>> No.7757821

Barney's Version

>> No.7757822

Gravity's Rainbow, TCOL49 (posting the obvious to get it out of the way)

>> No.7757828

any book if you drink enough.

>> No.7757840

The firat tale of King in Yelloe and for something less interesting, Machado de Assis books

>> No.7757844

>>7757650
Lolita's Humbert Humbert is a very unreliable narrator.

Would also suggest Notes From Underground - the underground man's perception of those around him can be contradictory.

>> No.7757857

>>7757650
Absalom, Absalom!

>> No.7757880

>>7757650
zeno's conscience maybe?

>> No.7757973
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>>7757650
Pale fire is without a doubt is a tour of force of a psychiatric patient . Narrator or should i say commentator with delusions of grandeur delusions of affiliation , confabulations , narcissistic personalty disorder and other bizarre stuff . I bet Nabokov read some psychiatric books cause the narrator clearly has a psychotic episode on top of his personality disorder.

>> No.7758338

>>7757650
the remains of the day by kazuo ishiguro

grotesque by natsuo kirino

>> No.7758351

>>7758338
The Remains of the Day has the most unreliable narrator ever excepting perhaps Humbert Humbert.

>> No.7758352

El Túnel escrito por Ernesto Sabato

>> No.7758354

>>7757973
I should read this again. I wasn't sure what to make of Kinbotes story

What were the hints that he was a psychiatric patient?

>> No.7758376

atonement

>> No.7758382

>>7758361
>>7758376
lol

>> No.7758396

>>7758352
What translation is good?

>> No.7758401

>translation
el americANO boludo seniores >>7758396

>> No.7758402

>>7758382
yeah i figured haha

>> No.7758631

I have a Korean story I'll send you when I get home.

>> No.7758634

>>7757650
The Tunnel

>> No.7759003
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>this
>broken in 4 sections
>Benji's section is full on retard narration, he's actually retarded in the story
>bits and pieces, fragments, flashbacks, everywhere
>Quentin's section follows him as he is completely obsessed with the concept of 'time' which is basically a made up concept
>finally loses his bonkers for real
one of the best novels imo

>> No.7759031

Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury. Two of the greatest novels ever desu.

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>>7757650

Anything written by most holocaust historians.

>> No.7759049

>>7757650
Rashomon was a book first you know

>> No.7759050

>>7757650
Death Sleep and The Traveler

>> No.7759054

>>7757650
Probably everything written by Nabokov. That was kinda his common theme.

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el buliado seniores >>7758396

>> No.7759060

GENE
WOLFE

>> No.7759073

>>7759054
His early stuff wasn't really the same. Laughter in the Dark for example is like Lolita if the protagonist was just some rich normie who got played hard by a slutty teenage girl.

>> No.7759108

>>7757650
Bolaño - Monsieur Pain
Bolaño - The Third Reich

>> No.7759115

>>7757973
Why is there a portrait of Julius Evola on the cover?

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>>7758396
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJ

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7759145

Dom Casmurro by Machado de Assis. One of the best brazilian novels, definitely

>> No.7760529

>>7759145
synopsis please, anon

>> No.7760548

>>7760529

Google it faggot.

>> No.7760567

>>7757650
Gene Wolfe does that a lot and isn't too hard to read.

The Fifth Head of Cerberus
Peace
Book of the New Sun

>> No.7760724

>>7759145
That's a nice cover.

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>>7759126

>> No.7760742

>>7757650
American Pyscho is probably one of the more famous ones.
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson is probably my favorite. The shift in reality is absolutely horrifying. One of the scariest books I've read in that regard. And pretty comfy on its way to the scary part.


Oh, and for a nonfiction one, Little Failures does a kind of cool little perception shift toward the end. It's super minor, but you don't see that much in nonfiction.

>> No.7760777

Dr. Glas by Hjalmer Soderberg. It's even available in English now with a foreward by Margret Atwoode

>> No.7760872

>>7757650
Who are these Semen men? Source?

>> No.7760880

>>7760872
*seed steeds
it's from seven samurai.

>> No.7760883

>>7760872
or rashomon, i'm not sure.

>> No.7760964

>ctrl+f
>no Phillip K. Dick

what is this madness...

>> No.7760984

>>7760872
Rashomon