Creator of Thenabouts, Philippe Parreno, knows that in order to write well, you have to read well. Explore some of the authors and books which inspired his visionary exhibition.
These links will take you to Wikipedia overviews, as well as WorldCat.org, which is an international library database that will find you a copy of the book somewhere near you.
- Michael Crichton's Prey (2002) (aka the inspiration for HBO's Westworld)
- Marcel Proust's Swann’s Way (1913)
- Pierre Cabanne's Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1971)
- René Daumal's Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing (1952)
- Dan Simmons' Hyperion (1989)
- Greg Egan
- Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992)
- William Gibson's Neuromancer (1984)
- Thomas Hood's The Bridge of Sighs (1844, full text of the poem at this link)
- Charles Baudelaire's 'Anywhere Out of the World' (1869, full text of the poem at this link)
- Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Cycle (1990-1996)
- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818)
- Jorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)
- Douglas Coupland
- Philip K. Dick
- Umberto Eco
- Thomas Pynchon
- Serge Daney
- Stanislaw Lem
- Edouard Dujardin
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Don DeLillo
- Bruce Sterling
- Greg Bear
- David Foster Wallace
- Gilles Deleuze (Cinema 1: The Movement Image, 1983 and Cinema 2: The Time Image, 1985)
- Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, 1980, Anti-Oedipus, 1972)
- Mikhail Bakhtin
- Georges Bataille
- Clément Rosset