Request: Surrealist Novels

Discussion in 'Books' started by mellow, Jun 18, 2005.

  1. mellow

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    Can anyone recommend any good surrealist style novels, or authors?

    im currently reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson but i'm looking for something a little more...ummm, surreal? kind of like LSD or DMT experience reports on erowid? sorry, i dont really know how to describe what i'm looking for...but i hope you can help :&

    thanks!
     
  2. Godot

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    Most of William Burroughs' stuff is pretty surreal, esp. his "cut-up novels". Naked Lunch is a good one to start on. Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce) is kinda fun too, but still as unreadable as ever.
     
  3. mellow

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    thanks!
     
  4. prankster1590

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    Read the first three books of Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan series.

    From Hunter Thompson: The curse of Lono, The great sharkhunt (Or the Gonzo Papers),the Rum Diary, the Hells Angels.

    Read Tom Wolfes; The Koolaid acid test

    Read Dennis Mcnally's; A long strange trip

    Stephen Gaskin's;Amazing Dope Tales & Haight Street Flashbacks

    Aldous Huxley; Doors of perception

    LSD; Otto Snow

    Anything from Terence Mckenna

    anything from Tim Leary

    See this link http://www.erowid.org/library/books/a_books.shtml#a
     
  5. T.S. Garp

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    Read Gabriel Garcia Marquez' 100 Years of Solitude--It is identified as "fantastic realism." His other novels fall into this category as well. They are not, however, similar in the least to Hunter Thompson's writing.
     
  6. razy

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    I'd recommend The Master and Margherita by Mikhail Bulgakov, set in Moscow, features The Devil who comes to town and causes havoc with the local populace. He has a talking cat who's a great sidekick.
     
  7. Hippievixen

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    Anything by Huxley all the way, man.
     
  8. Duskfallsonme

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    Ferlinghetti is also awesome
     
  9. mellow

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    awesome. im gonna go to the bookstore tomorow...thanks for all your help!
     
  10. misterrain

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    The Doors Of Perception is too lucid to be surrealism.
     

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