Gonchposters’ reading list:
If on a winter’s night a traveler (Calvino)
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius (Borges)
Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote (Borges)
The Hydraulic Emperor (Martine)
The King in Yellow (Chambers)
(This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it)
DICTIONARY OF THE KHAZARS by milorad pavic
KALPA IMPERIAL by angélica gorodischer
FOUCAULT'S PENDULUM and BAUDOLINO by umberto eco (while you're at it read THE NAME OF THE ROSE too)
it feels redundant to say HOUSE OF LEAVES by danielewski but you know
also if you want to read something with gonch vibes, rather that textual fuckery, i recommend john le carré, who is an expert at building tense homosocial relationships (ABSOLUTE FRIENDS in particular comes to mind)
Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
Benjamin, The Arcades Project
and it’s a—let’s say interactive experience rather than a written text, but I highly recommend everyone interested in the above play Immortality (2022), ideally with a controller, even if you aren’t a person who usually plays games
Jan Morris, Hav
Patricia Duncker, Hallucinating Foucault