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Most Experimental Literature of All-time - Part 2
Around two months ago I created a post called "Most Experimental Novels of All-time" and it got a lot of engagement. I really, really like experimental lit, but I also like obscure literature, and in my last post I received a lot of replies that were very well-known novels (I'm not criticizing anyone. Thank you for all of your responses!). In an effort to find more experimental lit that is also obscure, I created this post with all of the responses from my former post listed below. I intend this to be a post where people can see all of the responses from my previous post collected in one place as well as a source for new recommendations. With that in mind, I'd like to ask you all the same question: What are the most experimental novels of all-time? Please do not comment any of the books that I put below. Also, I would prefer if you didn't reply with books from any of the authors listed below but if there's a really good book that was missed, go right ahead! Thanks!
\- ***Bottom's Dream*** and ***Evening Edged in Gold*** and ***Nobodaddy's Children*** by Arno Schmidt
\- ***Darconville's Cat*** by Alexander Theroux
\- ***Women and Men*** by Joseph McElroy
\- ***The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman*** by Laurence Sterne
\- ***Ulysses*** and ***Finnegan's Wake*** and ***A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*** by James Joyce
\- ***The Waves*** by Virginia Woolf
\- ***The Tunnel*** by William H. Gass
\- ***Amalgamemnon*** by Christine Brooke-Rose
\- ***Pale Fire*** by Vladimir Nabokov
\- ***America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic*** by Phillip Freedenberg
\- ***The Rings of Saturn*** by W.G. Sebald
\- ***The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable*** by Samuel Beckett
\- ***Life: A User's Manual*** and ***A Void*** by Georges Perec
\- ***Flights*** by Olga Tokarczuk
\- ***Ferdyduke*** by Witold Gombrowicz
\- ***The Third Policeman*** and ***At Swim-Two-Birds*** by Flann O'Brien
\- ***JR*** and ***The Recognitions*** and ***A Frolic of His Own*** by William Gaddis
\- ***Notable American Women*** by Ben Marcus
\- ***Lebensansichten des Kater*** by E. T. A. Hoffmann
\- ***If on a Winter's Night a Traveler*** and ***Invisible Cities*** and ***Cosmicomics*** and ***T-Zero*** by Italo Calvino
\- ***Naked Lunch*** and ***The Nova Trilogy*** by William S. Burroughs
\- ***Hopscotch*** by Julio Cortazar
\- ***Literally Show Me a Healthy Person*** by Darcie Wilder
\- ***Liveblog*** by Megan Boyle
\- ***Gravity's Rainbow*** and ***Mason and Dixon*** and ***Against the Day*** and ***The Crying of Lot 49*** and ***Vineland*** and ***Inherent Vice*** and ***V.*** by Thomas Pynchon
\- ***The Death of Virgil*** by Hermann Broch
\- ***House of Leaves*** and ***Only Revolutions*** by Mark Z. Danielewski
\- Johanna Drucker
\- Johanna Walsh
\- ***The Making of Americans*** and ***Tender Buttons*** and ***Lucy Church Amiably*** by Gertrude Stein
\- ***The Unfortunates*** by B.S. Johnson
\- ***Grendel*** by John Gardner
\- ***Death Sentence*** and ***The Step Not Beyond*** and ***The Infinite Conversation*** and ***Thomas the Obscure*** by Maurice Blanchot
\- Hilda Hilst
\- Clarice Lispector
\- ***People of Paper*** by Salvador Plascencia
\- ***Ducks, Newburyport*** by Lucy Ellmann
\- ***Alphabetical Africa*** by Walter Abish
\- ***Dhalgren*** by Samuel R. Delaney
\- ***Lanark*** and ***Poor Things*** by Alasdair Gray
\- ***A Perfect Vacuum*** by Stanislaw Lem
\- ***The Horse's Tale*** by Anna Kavan
\- Donald Antrim
\- Thomas Bernhard
\- ***Cain's Jawbone*** by Edward Powys Mathers
\- Robert Bolano
\- ***Moby Dick*** by Herman Melville
\- ***Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books*** by Thomas Carlyle
\- ***Anatomy of Melancholy*** by Robert Burton
\- ***A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel*** by Tom Phillips
\- Anne Carson
\- ***PrairyErth*** by William Least Heat-Moon
\- Hunter S. Thompson
\- ***A Rebours*** by J.K. Huysmans
\- ***Pages from the Goncourt Journals*** by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
\- Machado de Assis
\- Oswald de Andrade
\- Yasunari Kawabata
\- Yukio Mishima
\- ***One Thousand and One Nights*** by Various
\- ***The Decameron*** by Giovanni Boccaccio
\- ***The Canterbury Tales*** by Geoffrey Chaucer
\- Richard Brautigan
\- ***Wide Sargasso Sea*** by Jean Rhys
\- John Barth
\- Bruno Schulz
\- William T. Vollmann
\- ***Collected Voices in the Expanded Field***
\- ***Dr. Awkward and Olson in Oslo*** by Lawrence Levine
\- ***Project for Tachistoscope \[Bottomless Pit\]*** by William Poundstone
\- Nicholson Baker
\- ***The Last Samurai*** by Helen DeWitt
\- ***Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician*** by Alfred Jarry
\- ***Nightwood*** by Djuna Barnes
\- Max Frisch
\- ***Never Again*** by Doug Nufer
\- ***Love Hotel*** by Jane Unrue
\- ***The Carnival Trilogy*** by Wilson Harris
\- ***Event Factory*** by Renee Gladman
\- ***Animal Money*** by Michael Cisco
\- David Foster Wallace
\- Robert Anton Wilson
\- ***Compact*** by Maurice Roche
\- ***The Book*** by Stephane Mallarme
\- ***Yesterday’s Burdens*** by Robert Coates
\- Anthologies edited by Jerome Rothenberg
\- ***Ella Minnow Pea*** by Mark Dunn
\- ***Lincoln in the Bardo*** by George Sanders
\- ***American Gods*** by Neil Gaiman
\- ***Yo-Yo Boing!*** by Giannina Braschi
\- ***Turn of Mind*** by Alice LaPlante
\- ***Schizophrene*** by Bhanu Kapil
\- ***Heaven and Hurricanes*** by Sean Norris
\- ***Dictionary of the Khazars*** by Milorad Pavic
\- ***Dangerous Visions***
by Harlan Ellison
\- ***Marabou Stork Nightmares*** and ***Trainspotting*** by Irvine Welsh
\- ***Riddley Walker*** by Russell Hoban
\- ***USA Trilogy*** by John Dos Passos
\- ***Emergence*** by David L. Palmer
\- ***Tree of Codes*** by Jonathan Safran Foer
\- ***The Street of Crocodiles*** by Bruno Schulz
\- ***Alastalon salissa*** by Volter Kilpior
\- ***Horcynus Orca*** by Stefano D'Arrigo
\- ***Le procès-verbal*** by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
\- ***The Magnetic Fields*** by André Breton, Philippe Soupault
\- ***Impressions of Africa*** and ***Locus Solus*** by Raymond Roussel
\- ***I Remember*** by Joe Brainard
\- ***Ice Never F*** and ***Milkbottle H*** by Gil Orlovitz
\- ***Miss MacIntosh, My Darling*** by Marguerite Young
\- Sasha Sokolov
\- Marianne Fritz
\- ***The Death of the Novel and Other Stories*** by Ronald Sukenick
\- ***Creamy & Delicious*** by Steve Katz
\- ***Reruns*** by Jonathan Baumbach
\- ***Pricksongs and Descants*** and ***The Public Burning*** and ***Gerald's Party*** by Robert Coover
\- ***Encyclopedia*** by Richard Horn
\- ***A Bended Circuity*** by Robert S. Stickley
\- ***Anniversaries*** by Uwe Johnson
\- ***I Hotel*** by Karen Tei Yamashita
\- ***"Latro" Series*** by Gene Wolfe
\- ***The Alexandria Quartet*** by Lawrence Durrell
\- ***S.*** by J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst
\- ***Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel*** by Zachary Thomas Dodson
\- ***Multiple Choice*** by Alejandro Zambra
\- ***Recipes From the Dump*** by Abigail Stone
\- ***Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal*** by Christopher Moore
\- ***The Testament of Mary*** by Colm Tóibín
\- ***The Dead Father*** by Donald Barthelme
\- Peter Handke
\- ***Speedboat*** and ***Pitch Dark*** by Renata Adler
\- ***G.*** by John Berger
\- William Faulkner
\- ***Wittgenstein's Mistress*** by David Markson
\- ***H*** by Philippe Sollers
\- ***Antkind*** by Charlie Kaufman
\- ***The Golden Notebook*** by Doris Lessing
\- ***Kiss of the Spider Woman*** by Manuel Puig
\- ***The Age of Wire and String*** by Ben Marcus
\- ***Story of the Eye*** by Georges Bataille
Around two months ago I created a post called "Most Experimental Novels of All-time" and it got a lot of engagement. I really, really like experimental lit, but I also like obscure literature, and in my last post I received a lot of replies that were very well-known novels (I'm not criticizing anyone. Thank you for all of your responses!). In an effort to find more experimental lit that is also obscure, I created this post with all of the responses from my former post listed below. I intend this to be a post where people can see all of the responses from my previous post collected in one place as well as a source for new recommendations. With that in mind, I'd like to ask you all the same question: What are the most experimental novels of all-time? Please do not comment any of the books that I put below. Also, I would prefer if you didn't reply with books from any of the authors listed below but if there's a really good book that was missed, go right ahead! Thanks!
\- ***Bottom's Dream*** and ***Evening Edged in Gold*** and ***Nobodaddy's Children*** by Arno Schmidt
\- ***Darconville's Cat*** by Alexander Theroux
\- ***Women and Men*** by Joseph McElroy
\- ***The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman*** by Laurence Sterne
\- ***Ulysses*** and ***Finnegan's Wake*** and ***A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*** by James Joyce
\- ***The Waves*** by Virginia Woolf
\- ***The Tunnel*** by William H. Gass
\- ***Amalgamemnon*** by Christine Brooke-Rose
\- ***Pale Fire*** by Vladimir Nabokov
\- ***America and the Cult of the Cactus Boots: A Diagnostic*** by Phillip Freedenberg
\- ***The Rings of Saturn*** by W.G. Sebald
\- ***The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable*** by Samuel Beckett
\- ***Life: A User's Manual*** and ***A Void*** by Georges Perec
\- ***Flights*** by Olga Tokarczuk
\- ***Ferdyduke*** by Witold Gombrowicz
\- ***The Third Policeman*** and ***At Swim-Two-Birds*** by Flann O'Brien
\- ***JR*** and ***The Recognitions*** and ***A Frolic of His Own*** by William Gaddis
\- ***Notable American Women*** by Ben Marcus
\- ***Lebensansichten des Kater*** by E. T. A. Hoffmann
\- ***If on a Winter's Night a Traveler*** and ***Invisible Cities*** and ***Cosmicomics*** and ***T-Zero*** by Italo Calvino
\- ***Naked Lunch*** and ***The Nova Trilogy*** by William S. Burroughs
\- ***Hopscotch*** by Julio Cortazar
\- ***Literally Show Me a Healthy Person*** by Darcie Wilder
\- ***Liveblog*** by Megan Boyle
\- ***Gravity's Rainbow*** and ***Mason and Dixon*** and ***Against the Day*** and ***The Crying of Lot 49*** and ***Vineland*** and ***Inherent Vice*** and ***V.*** by Thomas Pynchon
\- ***The Death of Virgil*** by Hermann Broch
\- ***House of Leaves*** and ***Only Revolutions*** by Mark Z. Danielewski
\- Johanna Drucker
\- Johanna Walsh
\- ***The Making of Americans*** and ***Tender Buttons*** and ***Lucy Church Amiably*** by Gertrude Stein
\- ***The Unfortunates*** by B.S. Johnson
\- ***Grendel*** by John Gardner
\- ***Death Sentence*** and ***The Step Not Beyond*** and ***The Infinite Conversation*** and ***Thomas the Obscure*** by Maurice Blanchot
\- Hilda Hilst
\- Clarice Lispector
\- ***People of Paper*** by Salvador Plascencia
\- ***Ducks, Newburyport*** by Lucy Ellmann
\- ***Alphabetical Africa*** by Walter Abish
\- ***Dhalgren*** by Samuel R. Delaney
\- ***Lanark*** and ***Poor Things*** by Alasdair Gray
\- ***A Perfect Vacuum*** by Stanislaw Lem
\- ***The Horse's Tale*** by Anna Kavan
\- Donald Antrim
\- Thomas Bernhard
\- ***Cain's Jawbone*** by Edward Powys Mathers
\- Robert Bolano
\- ***Moby Dick*** by Herman Melville
\- ***Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books*** by Thomas Carlyle
\- ***Anatomy of Melancholy*** by Robert Burton
\- ***A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel*** by Tom Phillips
\- Anne Carson
\- ***PrairyErth*** by William Least Heat-Moon
\- Hunter S. Thompson
\- ***A Rebours*** by J.K. Huysmans
\- ***Pages from the Goncourt Journals*** by Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
\- Machado de Assis
\- Oswald de Andrade
\- Yasunari Kawabata
\- Yukio Mishima
\- ***One Thousand and One Nights*** by Various
\- ***The Decameron*** by Giovanni Boccaccio
\- ***The Canterbury Tales*** by Geoffrey Chaucer
\- Richard Brautigan
\- ***Wide Sargasso Sea*** by Jean Rhys
\- John Barth
\- Bruno Schulz
\- William T. Vollmann
\- ***Collected Voices in the Expanded Field***
\- ***Dr. Awkward and Olson in Oslo*** by Lawrence Levine
\- ***Project for Tachistoscope \[Bottomless Pit\]*** by William Poundstone
\- Nicholson Baker
\- ***The Last Samurai*** by Helen DeWitt
\- ***Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician*** by Alfred Jarry
\- ***Nightwood*** by Djuna Barnes
\- Max Frisch
\- ***Never Again*** by Doug Nufer
\- ***Love Hotel*** by Jane Unrue
\- ***The Carnival Trilogy*** by Wilson Harris
\- ***Event Factory*** by Renee Gladman
\- ***Animal Money*** by Michael Cisco
\- David Foster Wallace
\- Robert Anton Wilson
\- ***Compact*** by Maurice Roche
\- ***The Book*** by Stephane Mallarme
\- ***Yesterday’s Burdens*** by Robert Coates
\- Anthologies edited by Jerome Rothenberg
\- ***Ella Minnow Pea*** by Mark Dunn
\- ***Lincoln in the Bardo*** by George Sanders
\- ***American Gods*** by Neil Gaiman
\- ***Yo-Yo Boing!*** by Giannina Braschi
\- ***Turn of Mind*** by Alice LaPlante
\- ***Schizophrene*** by Bhanu Kapil
\- ***Heaven and Hurricanes*** by Sean Norris
\- ***Dictionary of the Khazars*** by Milorad Pavic
\- ***Dangerous Visions***
by Harlan Ellison
\- ***Marabou Stork Nightmares*** and ***Trainspotting*** by Irvine Welsh
\- ***Riddley Walker*** by Russell Hoban
\- ***USA Trilogy*** by John Dos Passos
\- ***Emergence*** by David L. Palmer
\- ***Tree of Codes*** by Jonathan Safran Foer
\- ***The Street of Crocodiles*** by Bruno Schulz
\- ***Alastalon salissa*** by Volter Kilpior
\- ***Horcynus Orca*** by Stefano D'Arrigo
\- ***Le procès-verbal*** by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio
\- ***The Magnetic Fields*** by André Breton, Philippe Soupault
\- ***Impressions of Africa*** and ***Locus Solus*** by Raymond Roussel
\- ***I Remember*** by Joe Brainard
\- ***Ice Never F*** and ***Milkbottle H*** by Gil Orlovitz
\- ***Miss MacIntosh, My Darling*** by Marguerite Young
\- Sasha Sokolov
\- Marianne Fritz
\- ***The Death of the Novel and Other Stories*** by Ronald Sukenick
\- ***Creamy & Delicious*** by Steve Katz
\- ***Reruns*** by Jonathan Baumbach
\- ***Pricksongs and Descants*** and ***The Public Burning*** and ***Gerald's Party*** by Robert Coover
\- ***Encyclopedia*** by Richard Horn
\- ***A Bended Circuity*** by Robert S. Stickley
\- ***Anniversaries*** by Uwe Johnson
\- ***I Hotel*** by Karen Tei Yamashita
\- ***"Latro" Series*** by Gene Wolfe
\- ***The Alexandria Quartet*** by Lawrence Durrell
\- ***S.*** by J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst
\- ***Bats of the Republic: An Illuminated Novel*** by Zachary Thomas Dodson
\- ***Multiple Choice*** by Alejandro Zambra
\- ***Recipes From the Dump*** by Abigail Stone
\- ***Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal*** by Christopher Moore
\- ***The Testament of Mary*** by Colm Tóibín
\- ***The Dead Father*** by Donald Barthelme
\- Peter Handke
\- ***Speedboat*** and ***Pitch Dark*** by Renata Adler
\- ***G.*** by John Berger
\- William Faulkner
\- ***Wittgenstein's Mistress*** by David Markson
\- ***H*** by Philippe Sollers
\- ***Antkind*** by Charlie Kaufman
\- ***The Golden Notebook*** by Doris Lessing
\- ***Kiss of the Spider Woman*** by Manuel Puig
\- ***The Age of Wire and String*** by Ben Marcus
\- ***Story of the Eye*** by Georges Bataille
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