Could you recommend me some pretentious and avant grande literature?

>>9192994
The pictured is actually a helpful book if youre just setting out to study the German Philosophy and Lit Crit of that time period, and very clever. Like Walden and Shelley's poetry it becomes clearer the older you get. ..Had to read it for a Vic Lit class when I was 19 and found it entirely incomprehensible, however. But have read it twice since then, and, no problem. His French Revolution is wonderful.

Zettels Traum by Arno Schmidt

In Partial Disgrace by Charles Newman

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Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene might be exactly what you're looking for, anon

>>9194745
Good choice. I was also going to mention the Anatomy of Melancholy, but I'm sure OP's already aware of it.

>>9192994
Carlyle isn't pretentious, but I think I know what you're looking for

Anthony Burgess (M/F)
Samuel Butler (Erewhon)

Lewis Carroll is probably worth a revisit too.

>>9192994
Why, Death's Jest Book, of course. And Sir Thomas Browne's works, esp. the Pseudodoxia. Others come to mind, but these two require quite a bit of patience.

>>9192994
just here to namedrop the inevitable finnegan's wake

>>9192994
Another comes to mind-- perhaps THE book: Doughty's Arabia Deserta. Dover Books used to publish it unabridged in a cheapo edition, 2 vos.

>>9194903
Nevertheless, this may be the purloined letter of the bunch.

>>9194916
This is perfect

>>9194903
lol at your name

the emphasis has been on P at the expense of the AVG. Therefore, bamp:

>>9192994
Annals of the Former World, if you want to combine a plethora of geologic buzzwords with a rather useful, if controvetsial, history of the topography of the U.S. He isn't avg, but used to be. He's also (last I heard) alive.

>>9197133
John McPhee, i.e.

>>9197133
how much of a chore is it?

>>9200675
I really liked it. The excess terminology annoyed me at first, but I looked a few things up, and it all went pretty smoothly. It's a combining of his four geology-specific books, each of which can be read seperately in individual volumes, plus about a 40 page epilogue that rounds things out. One does gain a great sense of the topography of the U.S., which is why I read it. Made me want to travel, and see for myself.