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If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino is one of my favorites. I love the use of second person and the first chapter is just such a great tribute to people who love books. His short story collection Numbers in the Dark has some strange ones too and I love it.

Nabokov has a couple strange ones. Invitation to a Beheading was fun and I love the use of the unreliable narrator in Despair.

Kobo Abe is one of my favorite strange authors. The Face of Another was probably my favorite but Kangaroo Notebook was really fun and I will never stop loving the summary on the back of the book.

I had my mom read The Lathe of Heaven and she kept commenting on how strange it was. That was a fun one too.

I spent most of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled wondering what was going on because a lot of it was very dreamlike.

Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing was one of the weirder ones I've read too. I think the main character might have been a god-alien-thing, maybe?

I picked up Hygiene and the Assassin because the title made it seem weird and it did not disappoint. I also love it because I love things that make me feel strong emotion and nothing can make me feel that same kind of fascinated disgust as that book.

Then there's Julio Cortázar's short stories and Luigi Pirandello's plays and Orhan Pamuk and Georges Perec and of course Kafka and Haruki Murakami.

Sorry for babbling but I just love weird books.

I need to finish If on a Winter's Night. Haven't yet, but it's on my list! And I'll see if I can get the rest of these books from the library too; they sound intriguing. :D

As regards Kafka, ever since I first read "Metamorphosis" I was pretty sure that what he was trying to describe was a real, actual transformation of a living human being into a giant insect (as opposed to a psychological/mental transformation). I thought that the point was in Kafka's morbid fascination with the absurdness and randomness of life. Like, he was genuinely afraid that one day he might wake up and find himself a giant bug.

Later I read about the accepted interpretation and thought that it was cool and made a lot of sense, but I'm still of two minds about it.

I'm of two minds about it as well. I find the ending to that story one of the most disturbing endings to anything I've read because the family is just so relieved to be rid of him and it's so sad after all the pain he went through. It's even more disturbing when I think of the interpretation that Gregor was insane because there are families who respond the same way in real life. So part of me prefers to think it was a real transformation because it feels more absurd and disconnected from real life and less painful that way. That's just me being incredibly sensitive though.

Generally I like to take Kafka's work literally even in cases where I don't feel so strongly about it. I don't know, it's just more fun that way. For me, the dark humor is stronger.

Seconding Lathe of Heaven do NOT be put off by any synopsis or spoilers you might read, the book is actually really easy to follow, even when you think it shouldn't be. (Has anyone figured out how LeGuin managed to do it, yet?)

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House of Stairs. Do a google search of the book's cover and you'll see children dancing strangely around a glowing object, and they're surrounded by hundreds of staircases. And that's basically the book. It was an amazing read, and I will forever be fascinated and disturbed by it.

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