Transgressive Fiction

damselnat

Any other fans out there? I fell in love with the genre when I read A Clockwork Orange at 14 and have been eating it up ever since. I love anything a bit weird, a bit different, a bit off the wall. So I'm a few years older than 14 now and I've read most of the usual suspects, Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk, Kathy Acker, Thompson, Burroughs, Bukowski (I've struggled with Cormac McCarthy and Houllebecq, I admit) and I'm looking for recommendations for something new if anyone has any....the stranger/more disturbing the better

MagicMarker

I don't like weird. I read the first 2 or 3 pages of A Clockwork Orange before going "ah here leave it ou".

I'm a glutton for punishment though so I'll probably go back to it with a fresh approach and prepared mind.

chasmcb

How about that rascal the Marquis de Sade?

BlueValkyrie

Have you tried The Dice Man? A great read if you like the weirder/darker side of fiction, about a psychiatrist who develops a therapy (which he then lives) where every decision is made on the roll of a dice. It's now viewed as a subversive classic.

Also Geek Love is well worth a look too - not very well known, but a great novel about a carny family who deliberately mutate their own children to be more successful 'freaks' - it sounds messed up, and it is, but it's also quite beautiful and tragic.

judgefudge

You should try a scanner darkly by Philip k dick if you haven't already read it!

D-FENS

damselnat wrote: »

I've read most of the usual suspects

Bret Easton Ellis?..

nyarlothothep

You should try reading Logan: A Family History, that's very transgressive, full of excess for the refined sensibilities of the nineteenth century.

Paddy Samurai

damselnat wrote: »

..the stranger/more disturbing the better

Blown by Philip Jose Farmer is pretty fcuking strange.Some have even been known to call it disturbing.:D

I only read this one but He has written a fair few books. I assume the rest are similar,

krankykitty

Some of Haruki Murakami can be pretty strange. Recommend "Wind Up Bird Chronicle"

emeraldstar

krankykitty wrote: »

Some of Haruki Murakami can be pretty strange. Recommend "Wind Up Bird Chronicle"

Reading that at the moment. Odd book but it's holding my attention.

baalthor

"Exquisite Corpse" by Poppy Z. Brite

Malari

The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas is quite strange. The main character finds out how to enter other people's minds through some sort of homeopathic trance. :pac: I enjoyed it!