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Anonymous Sun Sep 8 19:42:18 2019 No.13783865 [Reply] [Original]

What is the most original, imaginative piece of literature you have ever read?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 19:43:19 2019 No.13783871 Finnegans Wake, unironically.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 19:46:15 2019 No.13783885 >>13783871 Isn't it unreadable and nonsensical though

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 19:46:24 2019 No.13783886 >>13783865 https://www.surfaces.cx/senior-operator-destrudo-by-userbody

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 19:51:52 2019 No.13783905 >>13783885 Not really but none of that is icompatible to what you said in the OP. The Mahabrata is also pretty imaginative, also The Temptation of Saint Anthony, One Thousand and One Nights, and The Red Book.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 19:53:08 2019 No.13783911 >>13783905 Will check them out, thanks

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 19:55:37 2019 No.13783925 >>13783905 Based

Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:28:33 2019 No.13784048
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I was going to answer this with something from sci fi or overtly experimental fiction. But little of that is ever emotionally or formally innovative. Even the strangest sci fi is more like a veneer of metaphors for the current state of things projected onto dead forms. Giraudon's stories are dreams. Not showy surrealist, absurd dreams. I mean her stories read exactly as if I'm dreaming them. She takes lively, familar forms and makes them strange by stripping away the conventions of word's relationship to character. She does this as matter-of-factly as if she were peeling an orange.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:33:36 2019 No.13784065 >>13784048 I don't like this cover one bit but I am intrigued by your description

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:34:37 2019 No.13784070 >>13784048 has her work been translated or is it French-only?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:34:52 2019 No.13784071 House of Leaves

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:36:50 2019 No.13784075 >>13784070 It had been translated, but of course the French is much better. Even if you don't like her type of lit, the characters in her short stories are worth studying to inform your own craft.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:47:03 2019 No.13784117 >>13783905 What are some specific literary accounts of the temptation of St Anthony?

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:48:33 2019 No.13784125 >>13784117 Flaubert's, obviously.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:49:34 2019 No.13784130 >>13784075 I will check her work, I was unaware of her, thanks for the rec.

>>	Anonymous Sun Sep 8 20:52:36 2019 No.13784147 File: 269 KB, 647x1149, 1511301868852.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones.

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