Strangely constructed novels

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A Void
1.  A Void by Georges Perec
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  "Detective novel without any Es (even in translation)"
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Gadsby
2.  Gadsby by Ernest Vincent Wright
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  "Another no Es novel about Community building"
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Ulysses: The 1922 text (Oxford World's Classics)
3.  Ulysses: The 1922 text (Oxford World's Classics) by James Joyce
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  "A different style for each chapter - it will grow on you"
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Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers)
4.  Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers) by Julio Cortazar
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  "Read the chapters in any order or the suggested list (missing out a few)"
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Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature Series)
5.  Three Trapped Tigers (Latin American Literature Series) by Guillermo Infante
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  "A Cuban Ulysses (probably better in original spanish)"
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The Green House
6.  The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa
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  "non-sequential, multi-perspective - how confusing can you get?"
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Life: A User's Manual
7.  Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec
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  "Puzzle, word play, a story based on the Knights move problem"
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
8.  The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Rainer Maria Rilke
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  "Surreal construction and history"
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The Celebration (Latin American Literature Series)
9.  The Celebration (Latin American Literature Series) by Ivan Angelo
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  "Prelude, testimonies, parallel stories, then a couple of postscripts (not) explaining things"
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Zero
10.  Zero by Ignacio De Loyola Brandao
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  "short surreal episodes each with a title; there are numerous diagrams and sketches; odd text layouts, frequently footnotes qualify or suggest contradictions; parallel lives"
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The Green Child (Capuchin Classics)
11.  The Green Child (Capuchin Classics) by Herbert Read
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  "A novel written in the prevailing surreal style"
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A Brief Stay with the Living
12.  A Brief Stay with the Living by Marie Darrieussecq
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  "Prose-poetry"
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Nadja (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
13.  Nadja (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Andre Breton
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  "A novel written in the prevailing surreal style (don't expect a verbal Dali)"
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The Invention Of Morel (New York Review Books Classics)
14.  The Invention Of Morel (New York Review Books Classics) by Adolfo Bioy Casares
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  "How to write a dream (or just a very clever plot device)"
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift)
15.  Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift) by Edwin Abbott
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  "A story fixed in 1 and 2 dimensions"
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Kaputt (New York Review Books Classics)
16.  Kaputt (New York Review Books Classics) by with an introduction by Dan Hofstadter Curzio Malaparte
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  "The book oscillates in time, being a muddle of real events and fictions which have no real narrative arc, and so there is no story of `war' as such"
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Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death
17.  Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "Non-linear,anti-war a bit like Kaputt"
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The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
18.  The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics) by Fernando Pessoa
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  "write what you see - compare it to the futility of life"
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Maldoror and Poems (Classics)
19.  Maldoror and Poems (Classics) by Comte Lautreamont
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  "Excellent: surreal, gothic, poetic, brutal, imaginative, unreadable non-story of a book"
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Three Lives (Twentieth Century Classics)
20.  Three Lives (Twentieth Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein
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  "Three shorts written in the style of Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse"
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