Unusual or experimental prose

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  1. sahlmi

    sahlmi Active Member

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    If you like surreal humor, INCIDENCES by Daniil Kharms is a bit insane. (Or pretty much anything he writes.)
    Just slightly in the same vein as John Lennon's books--and probably an influence.

    It's easy to see he also influenced some modern bizarro writers like John Skipp and D. Harlan Wilson.

    This is what he looks like:
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  2. fjm3eyes

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    I'd go with House of Leaves. Other Danielewski's novels , I think, also are written in an experimental style.
     
  3. severine

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    Geek Love by Katherine Dunn has a prose style that is a little off-centre.
     
  4. severine

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    Additionally, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Nabokov fits the bill.
     
  5. ixk

    ixk Banned

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    is isk a experiment... ?

    ( - isk : ) ( ;
     

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