Finnegans Wake discussion

Hello, I'm a big fan of authors such as Joyce, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, etc. Can anyone recommend more books/authors like this? Thanks.

The Third Policeman, The Cannibal, Slaughterhouse 5, White Noise, Pale Fire. Poetry can get pretty post modern (see Howl, The Wasteland, Naked Lunch.)

ArseLonga wrote: "The Third Policeman, The Cannibal, Slaughterhouse 5, White Noise, Pale Fire. Poetry can get pretty post modern (see Howl, The Wasteland, Naked Lunch.)"

Thanks! Can you recommend some good modernist and post modern poetry? I haven't read a lot of poetry and would like to give it a try.

Can't say I know more than the basics (what I just showed you) but the entire medium is far more prone to experimenting than novels. T.S. Eliot and Beat Poetry in particular were both decades ahead of their times in messing with traditiona structure.

I know The Cannibal was already mentioned, but John Hawkes in general is a good author to look into if you like postmodernism or experimental fiction. He tends to be somewhat overlooked compared to Pynchon, Joyce, and Wallace. There's also Djuna Barnes, William Gaddis, Flann O'Brien, and Malcolm Lowry just to name a few who aren't talked about as much.

Kevin wrote: "Hello, I'm a big fan of authors such as Joyce, Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, etc. Can anyone recommend more books/authors like this? Thanks."

here you go.
Don Delilo - underworld, white noise.
Danielewski - house of Leaves
Try Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevski

others:
Jonathan Franzen is also a clever writer.
You might enjoy roberto bolano too, some books of his were good. Definitely wrote one longer than infinite jest.

BTW i love pynchon/Joyce/Wallace too

Gilbert Sorrentino is way out therein terms of avant-garde. . You might dig the big fat books of John Barth --Df Wallace spoofs him in one of his novellas (he really slacks off by the 1990s, be forewarned). Others would recommend William Gaddis, but honestly he was too dense for me to enjoy. WS Burroughs' drug fueled nightmares may also be your thing.