Who's the David Lynch of literature?

Who's the David Lynch of literature?

Me

yeah this guy, his name is toby onest and he wrote my diary

Probably David Lynch

Thomas Pynchon

a deliberately shitty answer to a deliberately(?) shitty question

his style is so quintessentially cinematic that i don't think it can be translated into literature. much of his work takes inspiration from literature though; eraserhead is basically kafka in movie form, and twin peaks took many cues from the work of carl jung.

joke: and twin peaks took many cues from the work of carl jung.
woke: Yall need to get a job while you're young.

David Lynch

I said this and was told I was a pleb. I dont think lynch has a literary counterpart but Ill defend this as the closest it comes.
>surreal, tropey, slapstick, dark humor

I dunno. Kafka? Murakami?

He did influence some Japanese mangaka with his work, so maybe Itou Junji?

If you look at the themes of Uzumaki and Tomie they really mirror a lot of the themes in Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive. To Itou's credit, however, his style is just as well defined as Lynch in his own sphere - and Uzumaki's execution blows Twin Peaks out of the water (because the second season was so poorly executed).