The most popular French experimental fiction books

Experimental fiction pushes at what a novel can do. Stories are told in footnotes, fragments, lists or shapes on the page, and the usual rules of plot and character are set aside. Demanding and playful, these books are for adventurous readers. Only books in French are listed.

Combines Literary fiction and Experimental

Results

Ulysse
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Ulysse

James Joyce, Don Gifford

1975 · 1941 edition

712 pages

Finnegans Wake
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Finnegans Wake

James Joyce

1973 · 1982 edition

660 pages

Contre-jour
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Contre-jour

Thomas Pynchon

2006 · 2009 edition

1467 pages

Malone meurt
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Malone meurt

Samuel Beckett

1970 · 2004 edition

191 pages

O Révolutions
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O Révolutions

Mark Z. Danielewski

2006 · 2007 edition

360 pages

Locus Solus
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Locus Solus

Raymond Roussel

1970 · 2024 edition

200 pages