The most popular experimental books

Experimental books break the rules on purpose. Pages may be laid out strangely, sentences may run for chapters, and the story may refuse to behave like one. They are not always easy, and they show what else a book can be.

Slapstick Modernism

William Solomon

Published 2016

272 pages

After You, Dearest Language

Marisol Limon Martinez

Published 2005

104 pages

Trials of Arab Modernity Literary Affects and the New Political

Tarek El-Ariss

Published 2013

233 pages

The Good Guy She'd Never Date

HAMZA EL MOUTADIR

Published 2020

236 pages

Queer Experimental Literature The Affective Politics of Bad Reading

Tyler Bradway

Published 2017

268 pages

Girls Against God A Novel

Jenny Hval

Published 2020

240 pages

Neuropsychology After Lashley

Jack Orbach

Published 2018

560 pages

Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan

Samuel Perry

Published 2014

248 pages

Psychopathological structures in a short story of Serbian modernism and avant-garde

Branislava Vasić Rakočević

Published 2011

169 pages

The Weather Fifteen Years Ago (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture and Thought, Translation Series)

Wolf Haas

Published 2009

247 pages

Experimental Fictions

Tullio Pagano

Published 1999

189 pages

THREE DECADES OF FRENCH

Lois Oppenheim

Published 1986

213 pages

Beyond Human Vital Materialisms in the Andean Avant-Gardes

Tara Daly

Published 2019

243 pages

Languages of the Night Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-century Ireland and Europe

Barry McCrea

Published 2015

177 pages

The New Avant-garde in Italy Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices

John Picchione

Published 2004

250 pages

Metafiction

Patricia Waugh

2002 · 2013 edition

187 pages

У знаку традиције и авангарде

Radovan Vuckovic

Published 2004

472 pages

Spontaneity And Form In Modern Prose

Vidyan Ravinthiran

Published 2022

Writing Grandmothers

Published 2019

278 pages

A Wa(y)farer

Sarah Jacobs

Published 1998

70 pages

Modernity and Revolution in Late Nineteenth-Century France

Barbara T. Cooper, Mary Donaldson-Evans

Published 1992

170 pages

Latin American Vanguards

Vicky Unruh

Published 1994

336 pages

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