Re: The Experimental Fiction Depository
Perhaps you would enjoy delving into Theory - Fiction, stuff like Negarestani's Cyclonopedia and Nick Land's post-academic writing. I saw stream of consciousness authors/novels mentioned; to those I would add Kerouac's The Subterraneans and everything writen by Laszlo Kraznahorkai, but I would like to state that Kerouac and Kraznahorkai hate fullstops for entirely different reasons.
One of the forefathers of Greek Surrealism, Andreas Embeirikos, wrote a 9 volume pornographic epic called the Great Eastern. He wrote it in an erudite and official version of modern Greek that was never actually spoken.
Roland Topor was a genius when it came to experimental fiction, but I think most of his work is still untranslated in English and even in French, a lot of it is hard to track down - we are talking pornographic puzzles for the incarcerated, books with one letter or one word per page, etc.
I find a lot of old authors practically unclassifiable, even if they had nothing to do with movements such as Surrealism, OULIPO, Theory-Fiction, etc. One of my favorite unclassifiable books is Beasts, Men and Gods by Ossendowski, which is fiction and botany and mysticism combined with autobiography and travelogue and a dozen other things.
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