my mom just made me read BLAST by wyndham lewis and i felt like a second-grader reading the book with no pictures again. what adult-oriented books have you read with really weird prose and/or typography?
You’ll probably hear House Of Leaves here, a book that feels like its weird structure is maybe even more important to it than its content.
I also suggest The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick by Peter Handke. It’s a very unorthodox book with pretty minimal narrative, focusing on a character who is clearly going through some kind of serious mental health episode. Feels like it’s going to be a lot like Camus’s The Stranger, but ends up going in a pretty different general direction. The prose is sometimes self-contradictory and at one point switches over to using little rudimentary symbols instead of words for a bit.
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You’ll probably hear House Of Leaves here, a book that feels like its weird structure is maybe even more important to it than its content.
I also suggest The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick by Peter Handke. It’s a very unorthodox book with pretty minimal narrative, focusing on a character who is clearly going through some kind of serious mental health episode. Feels like it’s going to be a lot like Camus’s The Stranger, but ends up going in a pretty different general direction. The prose is sometimes self-contradictory and at one point switches over to using little rudimentary symbols instead of words for a bit.