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* Creator/WalterMoers' ''Zamonia'' novels are a bit difficult to untangle, having his merry way with the FourthWall and [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]]. First, there is Walter Moers, the real world author.
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* Creator/WalterMoers' ''Zamonia'' ''Literature/{{Zamonia}}'' novels are a bit difficult to untangle, having his merry way with the FourthWall and [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]]. First, there is Walter Moers, the real world author.
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* The majority of Creator/HarukiMurakami's work uses this to some extent, but ''After Dark'' has it in place of the plot.
** And ''Kafka on the Shore'' are two Mind Screws for the price of one.
** Indeed, this is such a core element of Murakami's work, that when the comparatively straightforward coming-of-age novel ''Norwegian Wood'' brought him huge commercial success Murakami suffered from massive CreatorBacklash against it.
** And ''Kafka on the Shore'' are two Mind Screws for the price of one.
** Indeed, this is such a core element of Murakami's work, that when the comparatively straightforward coming-of-age novel ''Norwegian Wood'' brought him huge commercial success Murakami suffered from massive CreatorBacklash against it.
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* The majority of Creator/HarukiMurakami's work uses this to some extent, but ''After Dark'' ''Literature/AfterDark'' has it in place of the plot.
** And''Kafka on the Shore'' ''Literature/KafkaOnTheShore'' are two Mind Screws for the price of one.
** Indeed, this is such a core element of Murakami's work, that when the comparatively straightforward coming-of-age novel''Norwegian Wood'' ''Literature/NorwegianWood'' brought him huge commercial success Murakami suffered from massive CreatorBacklash against it.
** And
** Indeed, this is such a core element of Murakami's work, that when the comparatively straightforward coming-of-age novel
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* In Will Stanton's "You Are With It!" Stanley goes to work one day only to find that his office has been transformed into a studio set, complete with a host who tells him that he's going to be participating in a new kind of TV program where he ''lives'' the part instead of playing it. After various secret agent shenanigans he finds himself in the kitchen with his wife the following morning, without any memory of having gone home. This repeats the following day. During the third day, the Lieutenant mentions a body found on the steps of Grant's Tomb with only a piece of paper in its pockets - a piece of paper which happens to be a list of chores Stanley's wife has been giving him. Then the host walks in, announces that the program has been canceled because the sponsor's wife didn't like it and requests that they turn in their props, including Stanley's gun. Stanley shoots the host and events continue as before.
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** ''The Blue Angel''. Parallel universes. Space warthog Valkyries. The Doctor [[spoiler:''giving birth to a winged baby from his leg'']]. Claims that the Doctor's mother was a mermaid. Giant space owls. A ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parody starship called the ''Nepotist''. One character is an elephant (a green one, no less!), another gets turned into a giant squid for no adequately explained reason. Parallel universe Dalek-analogues who are humanoids made out of ''glass''. Twenty questions that manage to be clever, patronizing, and headache-inducing all at once... yeah, [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs it seems to be a product of an acid trip during a Classic Who marathon]].
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** ''The Blue Angel''. Parallel universes. Space warthog Valkyries. The Doctor [[spoiler:''giving birth to a winged baby from his leg'']]. Claims that the Doctor's mother was a mermaid. Giant space owls. A ''Franchise/StarTrek'' parody starship called the ''Nepotist''. One character is an elephant (a green one, no less!), another gets turned into a giant squid for no adequately explained reason. Parallel universe Dalek-analogues who are humanoids made out of ''glass''. Twenty questions that manage to be clever, patronizing, and headache-inducing all at once... yeah, [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs it seems to be a product of an acid trip during a Classic Who marathon]].marathon.
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* Douglas Hofstadter's ''Godel, Escher, Bach'' is several Mind Screws together, including Zen, Logic (Godel), Art (Escher), Music (Bach), and MU.
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* Douglas Hofstadter's ''Godel, ''[[Literature/GodelEscherBachAnEternalGoldenBraid Godel, Escher, Bach'' Bach]]'' is several Mind Screws together, including Zen, Logic (Godel), Art (Escher), Music (Bach), and MU.
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* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya''. The AnachronicOrder will mess you up, since you cannot relate half of the stuff being said.
** It gets hard to follow in the 4th novel ''Disappearance'' and its continuance in another novel, where [[TimeTravel time travelling]] is combined with [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]]. It may take you 2 times to read just to understand ''how'' they actually managed to [[StableTimeLoop solve it]].
** The 9th novel features two realities, ''for no apparent reason'', in which different stuff happens. To be fair, the more surreal of the two phone calls in the 9th novel is obviously made by someone who knows more than they really should, and as it's the first point of difference, it's likely the cause of the split. Who they are and what they want is unclear. And in the 10th novel it resolved [[spoiler:that there were two realities, one of which a backup, and the mysterious sixth member of the club is Haruhi's subconscious.]]
** It gets hard to follow in the 4th novel ''Disappearance'' and its continuance in another novel, where [[TimeTravel time travelling]] is combined with [[AlternateUniverse alternate universes]]. It may take you 2 times to read just to understand ''how'' they actually managed to [[StableTimeLoop solve it]].
** The 9th novel features two realities, ''for no apparent reason'', in which different stuff happens. To be fair, the more surreal of the two phone calls in the 9th novel is obviously made by someone who knows more than they really should, and as it's the first point of difference, it's likely the cause of the split. Who they are and what they want is unclear. And in the 10th novel it resolved [[spoiler:that there were two realities, one of which a backup, and the mysterious sixth member of the club is Haruhi's subconscious.]]
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* The riddle of how to access the secret room in the library becomes this in-story in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose''. "The hand over the idol?/image?[[spoiler:/mirror!]] should move (how exactly?) the first and the seventh of the four(???)".
** There's a lot of this ''The Name of the Rose'', both in-story and out. The labyrinthine library, the [[GratuitousForeignLanguage gratuitous Latin/Italian/German/French]] (which are sometimes mixed together); the lengthy discussions on philosophy, theology, and logic; the detailed references to both real and fictional literature, the complex FramingDevice, Adso's crazy dream, William quoting Wittgenstein several centuries before he was born... even the title may or may not have any actual significance. Umberto Eco was a semiotician and a postmodernist, and the whole thing is basically an experiment on meaning.
** It also makes reference to another master of the MindScrew, Jorge Luis Borges--particularly by way of the librarian character, [[ShoutOut Jorge of Burgos]].
** There's a lot of this ''The Name of the Rose'', both in-story and out. The labyrinthine library, the [[GratuitousForeignLanguage gratuitous Latin/Italian/German/French]] (which are sometimes mixed together); the lengthy discussions on philosophy, theology, and logic; the detailed references to both real and fictional literature, the complex FramingDevice, Adso's crazy dream, William quoting Wittgenstein several centuries before he was born... even the title may or may not have any actual significance. Umberto Eco was a semiotician and a postmodernist, and the whole thing is basically an experiment on meaning.
** It also makes reference to another master of the MindScrew, Jorge Luis Borges--particularly by way of the librarian character, [[ShoutOut Jorge of Burgos]].
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* ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'' has a lot of this, both in-story and out. The riddle of how to access the secret room in the library becomes this in-story in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose''. library: "The hand over the idol?/image?[[spoiler:/mirror!]] should move (how exactly?) the first and the seventh of the four(???)".
**four(???)". There's a lot of this ''The Name more in the form of the Rose'', both in-story and out. The labyrinthine library, the [[GratuitousForeignLanguage gratuitous Latin/Italian/German/French]] (which are sometimes mixed together); the lengthy discussions on philosophy, theology, and logic; the detailed references to both real and fictional literature, the complex FramingDevice, Adso's crazy dream, William quoting Wittgenstein several centuries before he was born... even the title may or may not have any actual significance. Umberto Eco was a semiotician and a postmodernist, and the whole thing is basically an experiment on meaning.
**meaning. It also makes reference to another master of the MindScrew, Jorge Luis Borges--particularly by way of the librarian character, [[ShoutOut Jorge of Burgos]].
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* ''Literature/QualiaThePurple'' is absolutely full of this. From philosophy to quantum mechanics, the series has a field day with it. Perception is troublesome, after all.
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** Genesis has its share of mindscrewy stuff (which would make an example of BookEnds).
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** Genesis [[Literature/BookOfGenesis Genesis]] has its share of mindscrewy stuff (which would make an example of BookEnds).
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***Others consider this kind of “code cracking” explanation laughably over simplistic and just plain wrong.
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* ''Literature/HarshGeneration'' by Damien Blake. The narrative gradually turns disorganised, blending hallucinations with real-life events. Halfway through the novel, it becomes unclear what exactly is happening. The characters occasionally offer odd comments about being fictional entities. The final chapters of the book are mostly incoherent vignettes.
* ''Ruiner'' by the same author continues in this vein, and takes it up even further, clocking in at a Doorstopper length of a thousand pages of deliberately absurd prose.
* ''Ruiner'' by the same author continues in this vein, and takes it up even further, clocking in at a Doorstopper length of a thousand pages of deliberately absurd prose.
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* ''Literature/HarshGeneration'' by Damien Blake. The narrative gradually turns disorganised, blending hallucinations with real-life events. Halfway through the novel, it becomes unclear what exactly is happening. The characters occasionally offer odd comments about being fictional entities. The final chapters of the book are mostly incoherent vignettes.
*vignettes. ''Ruiner'' by the same author continues in this vein, and takes it up even further, clocking in at a Doorstopper DoorStopper length of a thousand pages of deliberately absurd prose.
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* ''Ruiner'' by the same author continues in this vein, and takes it up even further, clocking in at a Doorstopper length of a thousand pages of deliberately absurd prose.
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** "The Red Tower", which up until the very end manages to have no actual characters whatsoever, and only really has the narrator... and, by tacit implication, ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou anyone that reads it]]''. Trying to explain how this works would take a very long time, but simply put, the basic idea is [[spoiler:that everyone alive is, unconsciously, aware of the Red Tower's existence, speaking of it constantly without knowing that they are speaking of it. The narrator has become aware of this, and is revealing the secret to the reader, hoping that they will believe him and begin to recognize the truth.]] Whether or not he is insane is immaterial to the massive Mind Screw.
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** "The Red Tower", "Literature/TheRedTower", which up until the very end manages to have no actual characters whatsoever, and only really has the narrator... and, by tacit implication, ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou anyone that reads it]]''. Trying to explain how this works would could take a very long time, but simply put, the basic idea is [[spoiler:that everyone [[spoiler:everyone alive is, unconsciously, aware of the Red Tower's existence, speaking of it constantly without knowing that they are speaking of it. The narrator has become aware of this, and is revealing the secret to the reader, hoping that they will believe him and begin to recognize the truth.]] Whether or not he is insane insane, or to what extent the Red Tower is "real", is immaterial to the massive Mind Screw.
