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!
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.
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
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.
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.
