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Books that feel like a David Lynch film?

>> No.19757560

just kafka really

>> No.19757588

inland empire is just mulholland drive but shitty

>> No.19757589

Ligotti

>> No.19757653

Dune

>> No.19757654

>>19757555
Pedro Paramo gave me much the same feeling as I get from much of Lynch's work.
>>19757588
I kind of agree but no film has ever made me as uncomfortable as Inland Empire does and it does it completely with the intangible. It just fills me with such dread regarding some unknowable/unseen thing in the world that it is difficult to not see it as a better movie. Mullholland Drive is my favorite of his.

>> No.19757732

>>19757555
Murakami's Afterdark

>> No.19757746

>>19757555
The lime twig

>> No.19757835

Call of the crocodile

>> No.19757844

>>19757653
lmao

>> No.19759449

>>19757588
didn't like inland empire when it came out, watched it a few years ago on acid and liked it very much

>> No.19759511

>>19757555
That David Lynch feel is too specific of an aesthetic to expect to find a book that is sufficiently enough similar to satisfy you. I recommend removing some of the constraints and generalizing to surreal and deamy deconstructed pictures of reality which uncovers hidden mechanisms and truths of reality and communication by shutting down and removing other laws (e.g. physical, biological). This is really what is interesting about surreal art. Some books, like the street of crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, are so vivid and distracting in their intense imagery that it is very similar to daydreaming, or hallucinating, or that strange period when you are fading to sleep and your mind becomes incoherent yet reflects in its own language the feelings of the day, where you lose the plot yet maintain it by other strange means. Unica Zurn is the best female author ive ever read for her Dark Spring. It's like the structure of reality fades away and all that is seen are the aesthetic laws underpinning everything. Too bad Schopenhauer never got to experience surrealism.

>> No.19759542

>>19757555
>>19757654
Along the same lines of being filled with an uncomfortable dread of some unknowable/unseen thing, check out Flannery O'Conno'rs Wise Blood.

>> No.19759978

>>19757555
My diary desu
Also nice trips

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Obscene Bird of the Night comes the closest to that uneasy nightmare feel

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This is probably the closest to Lynch that I have read.

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>> No.19760417

>tryhard edgy pseud shit
think you're looking for House of Leaves

>> No.19760427

>>19760417
>tryhard
Lynch seems completely effortless and natural in his art.

>> No.19760541

>>19757732
this DESU actually, really hits all the marks

>> No.19760561

>>19757555
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s influence on Lynch is very apparent. Also Boris Vian

>> No.19760670

>Call of the Crocodile.
>I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

Can’t think of anything else.

>> No.19761036

reading Harold Pinter plays

Also Sam Shepard and Tom Stoppard but especially Pinter

>> No.19761808

>>19760389
is this really a good recommendation or is it just a meme? I've read an overwhelmingly amount of bad reviews on this

>> No.19762433

>>19760417
Just because something upsets you doesn't make it edgy

>> No.19762722

>>19761808
I’ve read Call of the Arcade. I thought it was great.

>> No.19763391

>>19760417
There's nothing tryhard or edgy about Lynch. He's more authentic than you will ever be.

>> No.19763535

>>19757555
Reddit thread

>> No.19763707

>>19761808
CotC is awesome

>> No.19763722

>>19762433
>>19763391
seethe

>> No.19763964

>>19761808
>I've read an overwhelmingly amount of bad reviews on this
Sounds pretty Lynchian to me.

>> No.19763973

>>19757555

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>> No.19764194

>>19757555
I know it’s a meme to say Kafka but The Castle specifically I think is the most Lynchian barring some short stories

>> No.19764209

>>19757555
The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami. It's even packaged/bound in a weird way that makes it kind of formally unsettling coupled with a weird ambiguous but not tryhard horror plot.

>> No.19764488

Probably Call of the Crocodile

>> No.19764546

>>19760417
there's always one American who doesn't get Lynch, rest easy Burger

>> No.19764625

>>19757588
filtered

>> No.19764677

I've been told Barry Giffords Night People is very Lynchian.

>> No.19765954

2666 felt very much like a Lynch film at times.

>> No.19765994

my diary desu

>> No.19766015

>>19760311
>>19765954
>>19757560
Second this. A lot of surrealist stuff would fit. Try Robbe-Grillet.

>>19757588
Babby's first digital production. Cost constraints of actual film prevented improvised iterative shit like that production turned into.

>> No.19766427

>>19757653
OP said Lynch, not Alan Smithee.

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>>19766427
Theatrical version still counts, though if you're into heartplugs and weirding modules the book will disappoint.

>> No.19766505

Lynch is the American Fellini, what filters people so hard by him?
Is it because Americans wouldn't know art if it hit them in the face in the form of a cream pie?