Pynchon and Bolaño both emphasize style over narrative, and both these books revolve, like 1Q84 and Twin Peaks, around an epic odyssey that sometimes feels otherworldly. The book has a surreal atmosphere all the way through, with the unreal regularly infringing on reality in a way that Bolaño makes to feel perfectly natural.

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño: here we have a long journey in search of someone (or something) that's been lost to the past.

but Pynchon's writing style is very challenging, so I think Inherent Vice or The Crying of Lot 49 are the best starting points)

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon: a mysterious, dreamlike noir drenched in 60s vibes the details are constantly ambiguous and hazy, whether that's due to the weed or the secretive government conspiracies or whichever else direction Pynchon's writing goes.

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