Experimental

[close] Hola, conejitos. Aquí pueden escribir lo que se les antoje cuando se sientan con ganas y con inspiración. Les daremos feedback, críticas constructivas y cualquier otro tipo de comentario que los haga sentir bien o sentir que quieren mejorar. No existe el odio entre los conejitos.

[close] This group is for discussion of irrealist literature and other experimental fiction of an Oulipo-like nature. It's a space where travellers of the intellect can stay a while, escaping the morrases and mollasses of the middlebrow and mainstream. Think Borges, Kafka, Calvino and Perec. Think Sebald, Ishiguro, Cortazar and Karinthy. I started this group because I couldn't find anything akin and active on Goodreads. This page is dedicated to the memory of the Argentinian literary critic, Ana María Barrenechea, who first used the term "irreality" in connection with Borges's works.

[close] NOTE: This group is intermittently active, but you are welcome to revive past discussions if you're currently reading any of those books. We read challenging novels that depart from the standard forms of narrative fiction. We explore various types of fiction including stream-of-consciousness, surrealism, nouveau roman, antinovel, post-modern, metafiction, oulipo, and other formal experiments that bend the “rules” of story-telling. Reading schedules are not the priority here. Instead, the quality of the discussions takes precedence. We’re more interested in your thoughts than your reading speed.

[close] This is a book club for discussing books from independent publishers. Loving the edgy, the overlooked, and the uncategorizable! Not saying the big publishers are bad, as they all publish some amazing work, but there's also space for the hidden gems from smaller outlets in our reading lives, surely? If you have a book to recommend to the group, please share it on the discussion board. At the start our shelf may be skewed toward the UK but we would love to expand the focus. Image brewbooks