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Similar books? Playfully postmodern but still accessible for midwits

>> No.20607184
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20607184

>>20607151
lost in the funhouse
is what you're looking for op
you can start with just the short story
which is here and is a quickish read:
https://www.writersvillage.com/members/images/Barth-Funhouse.pdf

>> No.20607253

>>20607184
No

>> No.20607307

>>20607253
yes

>> No.20607422

>>20607184
Thanks, will check it out

>> No.20607664

>>20607151
Centuria

>> No.20607671

>>20607151
>for midwits
Anything by Perec and Queneau

>> No.20608887

So, after I read that book I ended up reading Invisible Cities, which is also by Italo Calvino, and it has a similar mood. You might also like the essay "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1"

>> No.20608918

>>20607151
>accessible to midwits
Not necessarily true. I let a classmate borrow it and she wasn't able to get into it at all

>> No.20609114

>>20607151
/lit/.

>> No.20609421

vonnegut

>> No.20609429

>>20607151
Pale fire is cool and all

>> No.20610519

>>20607151
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis

>> No.20610595

>>20607422
what'd u think??