Whats the most avant garde work of literature youve ever seen? Obviously we know Finnegan'sWake is pretty out there, and your diary is equally experimental. But what else is out there?
Pic related is pretty damned strange.
>>8349419
A Pickle for the Knowing Ones
>>8349430
This + Burroughs' Nova Trilogy is what I came here to post
Naked Lunch is basically Nova lite btw
Probably The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett The Trilogy in general is pretty avant garde but The Unnamable really ups the stakes from the first two installments.
>>8349438
what did he mean by this?
Tristram Shandy or the bible.
>>8349440
Strange, I was always told that late Burroughs was less experimental and more lucid than Naked Lunch
>>8349475
The punctuation marks for Penelope, I presumes.
Or just a bunch of punctuation marks that form an arrow or parts of a woman's lower body.
>>8349485
His work in the 70s and 80s is considered more accessible. Nova was written shortly after NL
Don Quixote was avant-garde AS FUCK for is time.
>>8349430
THIS IS THE WAY
S T E P I N S I D E
Billy & the Clown
>>8349419
>Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns
>>8349438
Dexter is a legend, his life is proof there's a god.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter#Biography
>>8349419
>type the most unknown hipster book you know.
>>8349475
Sick of people relling him theres no punctuation, hes saying here punctuate it yourself
>>8350090
y'know, none of the books in this thread so far are that obscure. you should probably calm down