Avant Garde


House of Leaves
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Ulysses
Pale Fire
Waiting for Godot
A Clockwork Orange
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Metamorphosis
Infinite Jest
To the Lighthouse
Slaughterhouse-Five
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Gravity’s Rainbow
Nadja
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiIce by Anna KavanNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsGravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonUlysses by James Joyce
Avant Garde books
114 books — 71 voters

It Then by Danielle CollobertRoutines, Expanded Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Horror-Poetry
2 books — 1 voter
The Banquet Years by Roger ShattuckHarmonies of Heaven and Earth by Joscelyn GodwinAlchemical Traditions by David Gordon WhiteWonderlands of the Avant-Garde by Julia VaingurtHarry Smith by Andrew Perchuk
Avant Gardenias
105 books — 2 voters

Infinite Jest by David Foster WallaceSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Postmodern Genius
519 books — 584 voters

While architecture’s sense of disciplinary inferiority ultimately derives from the antique pyramid of expression that placed language and poetry at its lofty apex and building down amid the mud and toil of the ground, architecture’s Sisyphean effort to achieve elevation only became more futile with the development of modern capitalism on the one hand […] and avant-garde strategies of opposition on the other.
Sylvia Lavin, Kissing Architecture

Ann Quin
Threading experience through imaginative material, acting out fictitious parts, or choosing a stale-mate for compromise. Under this fabrication a secret army gathers defeating those who stalk the scaffolding of comparisons. Yet they still hunt with their pale perplexities and resentful airs.
Ann Quin, Berg

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