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Sat 14 Jun, 2014 06:53 pm
Hi All,
I'm looking for weird and kooky stories that might make good opera texts. I've gone through quite a lot already, fairy tales, bible stories etc. and am now looking for kind of bizarre 20th century writing, Kafka, Ballard, Calvino etc.
Philosophical texts welcome too, I was thinking it would be cool to write something based on Barthes' A Lover's Discourse. Hard though.
All suggestions welcome.
pq x
Well, it isn't fiction but just recently a couple of pre-teen girls tried to knife their friend to death as a sacrifice to Slender Man.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/slender-man-stabbing/911-call-released-waukesha-slender-man-stabbings-n122291
@The Pentacle Queen,
Some of Hesse work comes to mind.
The Prodigy (aka
Beneath the Wheel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneath_the_Wheel
@The Pentacle Queen,
For Father's Day I received
Look Who's Back by Timur Vermes. Masybe there's an opera there somewhere.
Quote:In 2011 Adolf Hitler in full regalia wakes up on a patch of wasteland in Berlin. Having failed to find his bunker, he takes up temporary residence in a newspaper kiosk. There he is discovered by some TV producers, who take him to be a Hitler impersonator of rare method-acting genius. Soon he becomes the star of their satirical programme. His rants against foreigners and the welfare state are both consumed as comedy and secretly admired by a German public fed up with modern politics. Such is the set-up of Timur Vermes's satirical novel, translated by Jamie Bulloch, which has sold more than a million copies in Germany.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/30/look-whos-back-timur-vermes-review
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