Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas – Machado de Assis
One of the all-time classics of Brazilian literature. I can’t say I have read the books you listed as a comparison, but this one has lots of dialogs, monologs and weird things indeed
TheChocolateMelted on
*Antkind* by Charlie Kaufman. It basically begins with a monologue about the main character’s beard and goes from there to off-the-charts weird, involving hypnotism, an army of Donald Trump clones, a supremely fat housemate, falling into the sewers and being shot at, working at Amazon, being attracted to a clown and a certain point where the narrator runs away from the book. The dialogue is wonderfully crisp, the monologues are bizare and funny and it takes weird to a new level. Kaufman is the man who wrote the films *Being John Malkovich*, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* and *Adaptation*.
MelnikSuzuki on
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. It seems like everyone Artyom meets at the next station gets a monologue about the Metro and the state of the world.
JollyHamster5973 on
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu — it’s an experimental novel that blends prose with screenplay so definitely a lot of dialogue.
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Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas – Machado de Assis
One of the all-time classics of Brazilian literature. I can’t say I have read the books you listed as a comparison, but this one has lots of dialogs, monologs and weird things indeed
*Antkind* by Charlie Kaufman. It basically begins with a monologue about the main character’s beard and goes from there to off-the-charts weird, involving hypnotism, an army of Donald Trump clones, a supremely fat housemate, falling into the sewers and being shot at, working at Amazon, being attracted to a clown and a certain point where the narrator runs away from the book. The dialogue is wonderfully crisp, the monologues are bizare and funny and it takes weird to a new level. Kaufman is the man who wrote the films *Being John Malkovich*, *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* and *Adaptation*.
Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. It seems like everyone Artyom meets at the next station gets a monologue about the Metro and the state of the world.
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu — it’s an experimental novel that blends prose with screenplay so definitely a lot of dialogue.