books where like absurd things happen out of nowhere, kind of like hallucination, which is centered around morbid topics like death, isolation. Kind of beckett’s trilogy, blind owl by Sadegh Hedayat, or to some extent kafka and allan poe
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Have you read Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs? Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend it, but it is this.
*Dispatches* by Michal Herr.
It’s a stream of consciousness narrative: “Out on the street, one couldn’t tell the Vietnam veterans from the rock and roll veterans. The Sixties had made so many casualties, its war and its music had run power off the same circuit for so long they didn’t even have to fuse. The war primed you for the lame years while rock and roll turned more lurid and dangerous than bullfighting, rock stars started falling like second lieutenants; ecstasy and death and (of course and for sure) life….” (p. 223, *Dispatches* by Michael Herr).
The Unconsoled, by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem.
Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Kind of absurdist Japanese Alice in Wonderland, obsessed with death and poetry
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman. The audible performances are fantastic. You can view the graphic novels through many local libraries online. The artwork is amazing and the story is a Masterwork.
Space Opera by Catherynne Valente. It’s a wild and entertaining ride!
The Master and Margarita
The passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Yes, and it’s literally called _Fever Dream_! {{Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin}}
I agree with naked launch. I think it’s trash, but it’s what you asked for. American psycho also gave me fever dream vibes, but to a lesser degree.
Kafka on the Shore (Murakami)
The Stranger (Camus)