I'm looking for very poetic sort of avant garde, dream like literature. Preferably something that's more human feeling, not ridged. It could be stories, or personal writings, or poems. Whatever. I just want something brilliant, imaginative, written like it was written for no one but the writer his or herself.
Proust
The Other Side by Alfred Kubin
Infinite Jest
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge is exactly what you're looking for, OP
the unconsoled
>>8144674
Bruno Schulz might do the trick for you, lad
>>8144893
There were such beatiful pieces in that one
The fear that a small woollen thread sticking out of the hem of the
blanket may be hard, hard and sharp as a steel needle; the fear that
this little button on my nightshirt may be bigger than my head, big
and heavy; the fear that this breadcrumb now falling from my bed may
turn into glass and shatter when it meets the floor, and the
oppressive fear that when, in reality, it does then everything will be
broken into pieces, everything, forever; the fear that the margin
strip of a torn-open letter may be something that's forbidden, that no
one should be allowed to see, something indescribably precious, for
which there is no place in the room that could be safe enough; the
fear that if I were allowed to fall asleep, I might swallow the piece
of coal that's lying in front of the stove; the fear that some number
may begin to grow in my brain until it has no more room; the fear that
what I'm lying on may be granite, grey granite; the fear that I could
start screaming and people would flock to my door and eventually break
it open; the fear that I could give myself away and tell about all I'm
frightened of; and the fear that there's nothing I could say because
its all unsayable , --and the other fears... the fears.
I prayed for my childhood and it came back, and I feel it's still just
as difficult as it was at the time and that growing older has been of
no use to me whatsoever.
>>8144674
The Cantos, especially towards the end
this is gonna sound dumb but wordsworth
>>8144893
Just ordered a copy of this.
>>8144674
Kafka sounds like what you're looking for, The Castle or Description of a Struggle is what I'd recommend
>>8144674
John Banville is dreamy as fuck. try The Sea.
or even less prosaic; Hubert Selby Jr.
The Voyage to Arcturus, friend.
>>8145438
>for very poetic sort of avant garde, dream like literature.
>Kafka
Just stop pseud
>>8145648
Seconding this one - I haven't read a book like it
>>8145672
Have you even read the specific books that I recommended? I didn't just say 'read Kafka'.
How is The Castle not poetic, dream like literature?
Invisible Cities and Pnin
the torture garden, by gustave mirbeau
