I looked up the rest because it piqued my interest. Black Cat City by Jay Kinney, published in 1980.
Wtf… There’s no narrative or throughline, it’s just like… if you distilled “unsettling” and put it on paper.
Well, successful art I guess, it made me feel things…
“Drinnen saßen stehend Leute, schweigend ins Gespräch vertieft”
There’s a whole bunch of such surrealist art, and while me being a rather lazy student for most things art history means I have no idea whether there’s a better name for it, or how connected the artists behind them are, I still tend to find them rather fascinating.
Also, I’m not saying that surrealist art must necessarily miss a narrative throughline, though it’s true here.