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In terms of unreliable narrator stuff, you might well enjoy Patrick McGrath's novels; Dr Haggard's Disease is his best, but Spider, the wonderful Asylum, and The Grotesque are all equally curious in their narrative perspective, and, most interestingly, all for different reasons. Spider is written from the point of view of a schizophrenic - in some ways, whilst very similar, the feeling is very different to Cronenberg's film, because what you're essentially reading in the book is a sensical version of Spider's gibberish-notebooks.
Have we mentioned Pynchon? If not: Pynchon. You'll want a nice big internet connection next to you, and most of the stuff you don't know and have to look up is irrelevant, but it makes the reading process more like research. I have a page or two of notes I needed for Crying of Lot 49 just to connect up the last few dots.
Kit Williams is rather interesting; I only ever had the copy of Masquerade with the solution in the back, and even then, it was bloody difficult. I'm moderately handy with cryptic crosswords, but this threw me. Still, I nearly got the title of his untitled second book (which is beautiful, too).
You might also enjoy BS Johnson's The Unfortunates. It comes in a box (or maybe now, in its paperback incarnation) in a bag, and every chapter is bound seperately. It encourages you to disrupt a linear flow to read it - so you have a choice of orders, and have to decide which you prefer. I must admit I haven't read it, but it can be found reasonably on Abebooks.com . I have read Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, which is stunning and probably deserves a thread of its own...
Oh, and there's that double ending to The French Lieutenant's Woman that always comes into discussions of pomo choice-based narratives. I might be straying from what you wanted, but these ideas come to mind when presented with your question. |
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