Avant Garde


Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
House of Leaves
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Ulysses
Pale Fire
Waiting for Godot
A Clockwork Orange
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Metamorphosis
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Infinite Jest
Slaughterhouse-Five
Theory of the Avant-Garde
Gravity’s Rainbow
To the Lighthouse
Конструктивизм by Aleksei GanBetween Worlds by Timothy O. BensonCentral European Avant-Gardes by Timothy O. BensonConstructivism by Aleksei GanThe Realistic Manifesto by Naum Gabo
Constructivism Reading List
37 books — 2 voters
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters

It Then by Danielle CollobertRoutines, Expanded Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Horror-Poetry
2 books — 1 voter
Exercises in Style by Raymond QueneauThe Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise by Georges PerecCosmicomics by Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoInvisible Cities by Italo Calvino
...nothing but Oulipo
39 books — 8 voters

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
The Banquet Years by Roger ShattuckHarmonies of Heaven and Earth by Joscelyn GodwinAlchemical Traditions by David Gordon WhiteHarry Smith by Andrew PerchukWonderlands of the Avant-Garde by Julia Vaingurt
Avant Gardenias
102 books — 2 voters

Glenda Norquay
Carswell's novels, Open the Door! (1920) and The Camomile (1922) sit both inside and outside the school of urban fiction. While the spaces of Glasgow thrum in their pages and are - as is frequent in other urban fiction - characterised by their contrast with alternative locales, interest in the city is also aesthetic. Glasgow here is also a city of artistic sensibilities and aspirations, of the avant-garde ...more
Glenda Norquay, The International Companion to the Scottish Novel

Carlton Mellick III
The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . . our human race has been around for such a brief amount of time that the universe hasn't had the chance to detect us yet. One blink is all it needs to miss our dance through actuality. ...more
Carlton Mellick III, Satan Burger

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