ABANDONED. novel about dadaism & metaphysics

[Tammy]

Paperback read in the mid 90's. Characters met to discuss art and metaphysical subjects, possibly a café being the primary setting. A "doorway" or "entrance" to a surreal alternate reality was opened and characters had to choose to join this "place", or not to join. I may be remembering some details inaccurately, as memory is a weird thing, but if this story rings a bell, please help! Thanks

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Did this take place in the U.S., or some other country?

[Tammy]

It may have been Paris, but I'm not 100%

[El]

This sounds vaguely familiar to me too, Tammy. You said you read it in the mid-90s... do you have any idea when it might have been published?

[Tammy]

I think it was fairly new at the time (early-mid 1990's) because it was a public library paperback.

[Tab]

Foucault's Pendulum popped up when I searched for fiction + metaphysical + paris.

Do you remember what genre would best describe the book? Satire, suspense, mystery, etc?

Anything about the cover?

[Tammy]

I remember nothing about the cover. No, it wasn't Foucault's pendulum, but thanks for suggestion. For genre I think it was kind of a psychological mystery, but not a mystery in the true genre definition.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Were the characters French, American, or something else?

[Cheryl]

Here's a free 'bump' for fall. Come back in a few months to bump again, ok? Otherwise, as we do housekeeping on threads, we might conclude that this thread has been 'abandoned' and move it to the Abandoned folder.

[Ingo]

Description sounds interesting, might add that to my TBR, please do not abandon!

[Ingo]

Bump.
(Do not consider this thread as abandoned, I will follow it).

[Mir]

This is a really unlikely guess, but Max Ernst wrote a bit of fiction, as did some of his fellow artists.

[Lou]

Maybe the collection 5 Novels: Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars / Slaves of Spiegel / The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death / The Last Guru / Young Adult Novel?

Young Adult Novel has a bunch of kids that devote themselves to Dadaism.

Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy From Mars involves going to parallel realities.

Published 1997, although the books included are older.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Tammy, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Tammy, are you still looking for this or did you find it?"

No response in 2 years. Moving to Abandoned.