/lit/ - Literature

>>4551617
Actually I'm out now. Can we do this backwards as well, for you people who are more familiar with video games? I have a few posts from a thread on /v/ where I imagined the video game version of some of my favorite books. If anyone knows of video games similar to my descriptions, please let me know.

Also these can be general recs if the video game version sounds appealing to you, probably.

>In Watermelon Sugar
"Welcome to iDEATH -- a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams along paths lined with pines and stones. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. Brautigan expresses the mood of a new generation."

Probably a lot like Alfanhui ("I think it would work as some kind of surreal synesthetic RPG with some sort of drawing mechanic like Okami and loads of puzzles/riddles."), but with more action and fighting, with an art style reminiscent of El Shaddai and a time system that does change the sun's shine. Would have a rambling narration and lots of repeated symbols through the areas.


>Tainaron: Mail From Another city
"TAINARON consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. TAINARON is a book of changes. It speaks of metamorphoses that test all of nature from a flea to a star, from stone and grass to a human. The same irresistible force that gives us birth, also kills us. "

also a rpg-like game, but with more melancholy and mystery elements. The insect inhabitants of the island would be very stylized and it would be open world/city (with valid invisible walls, seeing as she can't actually leave the city and there are vast expanses of sand with bug-folks who would kill her at some edges). After she's met a requisite number of citizens, had experiences, gone on missions and feels an understanding of the city, the player can choose to end the game by embalming themselves in a cocoon.


>The Topless Tower
"When a mysterious stranger arrives laden with paintings, Leandro finds his quiet life instantly and mysteriously disrupted. Awakening locked in a windowless room in a topless tower, he finds himself trapped—the subject in one of the stranger’s eerie paintings. Heavily influenced by nonsense literature such as Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and the surrealist movement in South America, The Topless Tower features all the typical hallmarks of Silvina Ocampo’s fantastical writing."

Dungeon-crawler/rougelite based in the topless tower. Features permanent death, nothing carries over from each play and the rooms are randomized. The rooms in the tower could be styled after Ocampo's short stories, since many have a definite mood and setting, as well as including the rooms mentioned in the book. RPG-combat and all sorts of items and nonsensical companions taken up from each room. The end boss is the girl from the book and is solved the same way the book ends.

>Tainaron by Leena Krohn

"TAINARON consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. TAINARON is a book of changes. It speaks of metamorphoses that test all of nature from a flea to a star, from stone and grass to a human. The same irresistible force that gives us birth, also kills us. Nominated for the prestigious Finlandia prize, this is the perfect introduction to the work of a modern fabulist."

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>>3173174
Hah, I'm guessing you didn't find any of them to be of interest. They all have a lot of appeal for me - essences of surrealism, depression, anxiety, loneliness all mashed up in books mostly less than 200 pages. Here's a few summaries for anyone else that cares:

>In the Junk Shop and Other Stories
"In these nine tales, nine domestic objects tell their tales of woe and misery to each other, as if they were engaged in a nocturnal therapy session. They reflect on Pappenheim's treatment, dealing with guilt, evil and death. They are not just for children, but also serve as parables for adult visions. They allowed Pappenheim to be reborn, transformed, serving as a kind of 'writing cure.'" (Pappenheim was one of Freud's patients)

>Who Are You?
"First published in 1963, cult writer Anna Kavan's unheralded tale of a calamitous army marriage in the tropics unfolds in a vaguely post-war colonial setting. Narrated by the girl,"" her story plunges into a claustrophobic nightmare, played out twice, as she tells us about her husband, ""Mr. Dog Head,"" a heavy drinker who rapes her and kills rats with his tennis racket. Told against a background of intense heat and malevolent servants, the book seems virtually soaked in a Sylvia Plath-like surreal sense of youthful alienation."

>Tainaron
"TAINARON consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. TAINARON is a book of changes. It speaks of metamorphoses that test all of nature from a flea to a star, from stone and grass to a human. The same irresistible force that gives us birth, also kills us. Nominated for the prestigious Finlandia prize, this is the perfect introduction to the work of a modern fabulist."

Leena Krohn.

>Tainaron: Mail from Another City

"TAINARON consists of a series of letters sent beyond the sea from a city of insects. TAINARON is a book of changes. It speaks of metamorphoses that test all of nature from a flea to a star, from stone and grass to a human. The same irresistible force that gives us birth, also kills us. Nominated for the prestigious Finlandia prize, this is the perfect introduction to the work of a modern fabulist."