I'm looking for a book that captures the surreal, meta, and claustrophobic feeling of the film Being John Malkovich. It could be a novel about identity, consciousness, or the bizarre side of performance, or a non-fiction book that seriously examines the psychology and craft of acting in a unique way.
Interested in the themes of possession, ego, and the blurry line between performer and role, whether handled seriously or with dark humor.
What's a great read that explores this territory?
by PsychologicalCall426
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Check out *The Rehearsal* by Eleanor Catton – it’s got that same weird meta thing going on where the line between performance and reality gets completely fucked. The whole book is about acting students but it becomes this trippy exploration of identity and who’s really performing what
Also maybe *The Atrocity Exhibition* by JG Ballard if you want something that’ll mess with your head in a similar way, though it’s more fragmented and experimental