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It is not the kind of deal one encounters commonly, where conventional wisdom says debut literary novels … Yes, yes, yes, yes. Today marks the US publication of Eimear McBride’s A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, a highly experimental, Joycean novel that, despite the fact that …

Those books take work to read. It’s hard going at first, but once you let the language wash over you and form a rhythm, the book blossoms into a gorgeous, brutal stream of word and thought.McCarthy’s second novel is gorgeous and devastating, a search for patterns in the phenomenal world and a warning against the same; a book of just-missed connections, wireless communication and full-on joy. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-GlassThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanMolloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (The Trilogy, #1-3)Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)



Some combination of these, complete with badly reproduced and sometimes doctored black and white photographs and the specter of Nabokov following us through all the complicated pages? "Ulysses" obviously deserves the number 1 spot
Let go of what you think a novel should be, and let this novel be what it is, and you’ll be rewarded by waves of pleasure on every page, both emotional and intellectual.This novel is organized as a long series of notes written continuously on a typewriter by the last woman on earth — a woman who is obsessed with art and philosophy and literature, but keeps forgetting, or confusing, or willfully misrepresenting things. Like another, later novel of Marcus’, language is weaponry here, and the protagonist of this book (“Ben Marcus”) is a child whose mother belongs to a cult of Silentists, obsessive verging on abusive.


by deleted user. But at its heart, his work is deeply experimental — after all, what is it? For instance, the two blurbs on the back of this book are these: “Ben Marcus is a genius, one of the most daring, funny, morally engaged and brilliant writers, someone whose work truly makes a difference in the world.” — George Saunders; “How can one word from Ben Marcus’s rotten, filthy heart be trusted?” — Michael Marcus, Ben’s father. (last edited May 28, 2016 10:30PM) Point and case.This entire novel takes place over the length of an escalator ride. (last edited Mar 26, 2014 10:05AM) Any serious list of experimental fiction would include heavyweights like "Finnegans Wake," "Ulysses," "The Waves," "To the Lighthouse," "Foucault's Pendulum," Name of the Rose," "JR" "Mason & Dixon," and "Gravity's Rainbow." list created February 18th, 2010 Not to read him is a serious invisible disease.”Marcus’ sophomore novel is totally weird, but also pretty gorgeous. Even when the concept of a novel completely vanished into these self-identities, a question remained whether they had really established a limit on all pre-existing forms or merely disclosed a gap between what every novelist knew and what any novel could say about it. City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg. Lists are re-scored approximately every 5 minutes.

As Jennifer Egan This is book that can be read in any order, with chapters that can be left out or left in, depending on the mood of the reader. If you're looking to expand your reading pool with a little toe-dip into experimental fiction, the novels below are the perfect and not-too-intimidating jumping-off point. In fictions from the sixties such as Donald Barthelme’s “Marie, Marie, Hold on Tight” (1961), Clarice … For those occasions, there are a plethora of experimental books that experiment with text, genre, and structure to choose from. It sounds easy to screw up this literary labyrinth, but you really can’t: every page hums with life and language, and however you make your way through, you’ll be glad you did.