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Dense, challenging works of fiction Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:41:51 2022 No.21397068 [Reply] [Original]

Looking for a list of dense, challenging works of fiction, preferably in the modernist/high modernist style. I've already read picrel, Under the Volcano, The Man without Qualities, Ulysses, the Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow, most of the major works of Faulkner, all of Thomas Bernhard, the majority of Krasznahorkai, Moby Dick, the Obscene Bird of Night, Paradiso, as well as a variety of other lesser-known works in this mode.

Is there anywhere left to go in this vein? I'm not particularly interested in post-modernism (although Women & Men seems intriguing). Any recommendations are appreciated. I'm aware of Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, and Gertrude Stein, just haven't gotten around to them yet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:42:48 2022 No.21397071 >>21397068 >Krasznahorkai Reddit: the writer

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:42:49 2022 No.21397072 >>21397068 Hahah holy shit you sound like a retard

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:44:54 2022 No.21397079 >>21397068 >Musil >Bernhard >Krasznahorkai >Donoso >Barnes >Woolf >Stein Pleb

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:50:34 2022 No.21397095 Tarr

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:54:36 2022 No.21397106 >>21397071 >>/lit/?task=search&ghost=yes&search_text=%22reddit%3A+the+writer%22

Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:56:58 2022 No.21397110

>>21397068
William Gass is right up your street if you haven't read him already? Describes himself as a "decayed modernist". Lists a lot of the books you have mentioned as influences (Ulysses, Recogntions, Paradiso, Under the Volcano, Broch and Gertrude Stein particularly). Mann and Proust are also notably absent from your list for some reason. That's more than enough to be getting on with, surely.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 19:59:09 2022 No.21397119 File: 80 KB, 583x800, WyndhamLewis.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>21397095 based

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 20:00:56 2022 No.21397126 >>21397068 Hedyphagetica

Anonymous Sat Dec 17 20:01:12 2022 No.21397128

>>21397110
I've read Omensetter's Luck and In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. Thanks for reminding me of Gass. Proust and Mann I just haven't gotten to yet. Not an intentional ommission, just didn't think of them as I was putting the post together.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 20:03:46 2022 No.21397131 >>21397079 I hope you find a way out of your pain

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 20:04:40 2022 No.21397134 Late period Henry James

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 20:07:15 2022 No.21397144 >>21397095 Reddit: the moviemaker

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 20:08:13 2022 No.21397148 >>21397131 Stop being a pleb

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 20:20:05 2022 No.21397198 >>21397071 What does that mean?

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 21:58:44 2022 No.21397538 >>21397144 oof it's a big yikes from me dawg ya gotta know who Wyndham Lewis is if you're gonna be acting like you have taste

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 22:30:48 2022 No.21397687 >>21397144 /lit/tard: the miscognizer

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 22:46:52 2022 No.21397750 >>21397068 Is gravity's rainbow a tough read? I bought it a couple weeks ago but I haven't gotten to it yet.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 23:33:27 2022 No.21397942 >>21397068 The Man Without Qualities isn't dense. What about philosophy, OP?

Anonymous Sat Dec 17 23:41:36 2022 No.21397977

>>21397942
You're right, I just included it because it tends to get lumped in with this sort of literature. I actually didn't get much from it.

I've just started branching into philosophy. Have read some of the Greeks, as well as a bit of Nietzsche and Heidegger. Still figuring out where I want to focus.

Anonymous Sat Dec 17 23:44:41 2022 No.21397992

>>21397750
I found it to be pretty challenging. It took me longer to read than almost any other book I've tackled (including the Recognitions). There's a lot of stylistic variety, a huge cast of characters, many hallucinatory scenes that are hard to fit into the overarching narrative (which can be quite inscrutable in of itself). But it probably has had more of an impact on me than almost any other novel. Some people really don't care for it, though, so your mileage may vary. It's certainly uneven, but I found it more rewarding than most of the other long modernist/post-modernist tomes.

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 17 23:47:32 2022 No.21398007 >>21397992 Very nice. I've got a few books ahead of it but I've been excited to read it for a while.

Anonymous Sun Dec 18 09:23:10 2022 No.21399636
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Giles Goat-Boy
The Red Night Trilogy
At Swim-Two-Birds
Life: a User’s Manual
Terra Nostra
Conversation in The Cathedral
The Box Man
The Beetle Leg

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