Avant Garde


Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
House of Leaves
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Ulysses
Pale Fire
Waiting for Godot
A Clockwork Orange
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Metamorphosis
Infinite Jest
Slaughterhouse-Five
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Theory of the Avant-Garde
Gravity’s Rainbow
To the Lighthouse
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters
Franz Sedlacek by Franz SedlacekRudolf Schlichter by Rudolf SchlichterSurreale Sachlichkeit by Kyllikki ZachariasIn Menschenhaut, aus Menschenhaut, um Menschenhaut Herum by Walter MehringGeorg Scholz, 1890-1945 by Georg Scholz
New Objectivity
41 books — 1 voter

It Then by Danielle CollobertRoutines, Expanded Edition by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Horror-Poetry
2 books — 1 voter


[...] a familiar art historical narrative [...] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. [...] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved the attempt to reconstruct or recover the lost ideal of an art that is integrated with, rather than alienated from, the social. By and large, however, the dominant model of avant-garde art during ...more
Grant H. Kester, The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context

Alain Robbe-Grillet
The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-as though by a shrug of the shoulders-any work that risks giving a bad conscience to the literature of mass consumption. ...more
Alain Robbe-Grillet, For a New Novel: Essays on Fiction

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