The Barrier Of Reality

As I began reading the book Crying Of Lot 49 I was interested on how the division of reality and dreams dissapears. We see an example of this here: "Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of god, tried to feel as drunk as possible. But this did not work. She though of a hotel room in Mazatlan . . ." (1) Here, we see a rapid change of scenes and actions in a matter of seconds. In that moment she changes from reality to a memorie or even just a hallucination. If you are fully concentrated on the reading (like I was) you are dragged into this completly new place for no apparent reason: that confused me. This rapid changing of focus and the a sudden change in the settting distort the vision you have on the place where Oedipa is. I think that this playful way in which the author changes the setting is a game he attempts to engage the reader in. By making it hard to picture the situation the author makes the reading more interesting and it makes this book stand out. The way in which the sitaution shifts is probably a way to interest the ready.
The way in which the author distorts our image of reality is probably there to also make us understand that it isn't something you can't truly understand completly. Maybe this is a way the author challenges us to read this book and understand it. Thanks to all of this I have been interested greatly in the book.