/lit/ - Literature

>>21920811
>Delany's Dahlgren
I see that and raise you this

>>20876145
Pic related

>>20635698
Bottom's Dream by Arno Schmidt is like that... it caused a small sensation on /lit a few years back when it was published in English. Pic rel.

The Faber edition of David Jones's The Anathemata is pretty substantially footnoted by the author.

obligatory Bottom's Dream

>>17733890
Finnegans Wake
Bottom's Dream

>>17183323
>there's no book in existence ... that wasn't written with the explicit purpose of being understood by wide swathes of people
Are you sure?

>>15482879
Yeah, I'm not touching this.

>>10383750
he's an obscure figurehead of late modernism. People compare him to the later joyce and beckett but he's a sui generis weirdo. most of his writings were in german (and funnily enough he isn't well known in germany) but many of his works were translated by John E Woods (world renowned figure who also did the english versions of Thomas Mann and others). Here's an example of his later work. He uses punctuation in really strange ways and often breaks down compound words into rhyming phallic subwords (one of freud's earlier ideas was breaking down the words people use into similar sounding sexual terms)
extremely sardonic and cynical, beyond even Gaddis, but also deeply and weirdly sci-fi and fantasy in some of his works