What are some famous examples of weird literature or theatre?
>>24956180To clarify what I mean, I'm talking 4th wall breaking, stream of consciousness, surreal settings, warped narrative structure, meta elements, and so on. For some reason I couldn't put this in the OP or 4chan thought I was spamming.
my diary desu
the blind owlthe dance of the lizard's taleetc
>>24956181If on a winter's night a Traveler has that vibe
John Hawkes - The Lime Twig
House of Leaves would be up there, right? Only really know it by reputation, haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
Kathy Acker - Blood and Guts in High School
>>24956213love this book so much
try Tristram Shandy
A more modern one is "I've Been Thinking of Ending Things"
>>24956932the first half sure. it gets less weird once you understand its patterns
>>24956180I wrote an entire Greek old comedy about Venus (the planet) trying to seduce nitrogen & oxygen (is a breathable atmosphere). It's a bit cringe at parts (some of the chorus songs etc could do with a rewrite), but I think it has a few merits.
>>24956180Jorjani is probably the most schizo author on the scene right now.
>>24956180Ubu roi
>>24956180I got you
>>24956181The Illuminatus! Trilogy fits perfectly.
>>24956180
>>24956926>John Hawkesdis nigga knowsI'd also add The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien
>>24956180I'm working on it :)
>>24956181Normal People
>>24956181Pirandello
>>24957461>In September 2017, Jorjani was suspended from his teaching position at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in response to a covert video recorded by Patrik Hermansson, a Swedish antifascist activist, who presented himself to Jorjani under the false identity "Erik Hellberg", in which Jorjani predicted a future where concentration camps would return to Europe and Adolf Hitler, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander the Great would appear on European currency by 2050. Hermansson met with Jorjani at an Irish bar in midtown Manhattan in June, where the two talked about a future in which Europe embraces fascism. "It's going to end with the expulsion of the majority of migrants including citizens, who are of Muslim descent, generally" Jorjani said. "That's how it's going to end. It's going to end with concentration camps and expulsion and war. At the cost of a few hundred million people."
>>24956181You just want any post modern literature.
>>24958294Based
>>24958294Based Gonna read his stuff now
>>24956180>>24956181this is a broad net, and i don't know what you've read. kafka, lovecraft, and alice in wonderland are obvious answers. other than that?:>invitation to a beheadingnabakov writes kafka. a man is subjected to inane and humiliating rites as part of the pomp of an execution.>the diary of a rapistwhat it says on the tin. over the course of one year a physically unimpressive office functionary loses touch with/regard for the everyday world. feels very true.>behead all satansprobably what datura is like. the internal monologue of a man who is delusional and very pracitcal-minded.>the odom manifestoa man believes himself to be telepathiclly pursued by martian dinosaurs, while mantaining a respectable grade point average. >the pinka work speculative science fiction work by justin mohn, the guy who cut his dad's head off and put it in a bucket. 'i have no mouth and i must scream' with a.i. programmed to maximize sexual pleasure. i must confess, i have not read much of this book but i feel confident in recommending it.>mardi, and voyage thithera much more subdued work by melville, but certainly weird. it describes a journey along an archelego in which each island is home to a people with some absurd way of life.sci-fi is rife with surreal settings. solaris, rezdezvous with rama, and roadside picnic are my favorites. each includes a radically different world with a self contained logic.when you're spoiled for choice, be very picky.
