Dysprosaic
δνσπρὁσιτος + prosaic
almost, but not quite, entirely unlike, ⊥

Serifed Noumena
MMXX

Table of Contents

Whispers

Books I want to read.

Author Book Pg
Joseph McElroy A Smuggler's Bible 368
  Cannonball 312
  Actress in the House  
Aimee Bender    
Jay Griffiths    
Thomas Wolfe (~1930)    
Hans Fallada Every Man Dies Alone 544
Alexander Theroux Darconville's Cat 704
Gil Orlovitz Milkbottle H 534
Richard Brautigan In Watermelon Sugar 138
  The Hawkline Monster 216
  Trout Fishing in America 112
Christopher Priest The Islanders 263
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Autobiography of a Corpse 256
  The Runaway Fingers  
  The Land of the Nots  
Flann O' Brien The Third Policeman 240
Alexander McCall Smith Portuguese Irregular Verbs 128
George Singleton Novel 335
Gerald Basil Edwards The Book of Ebenezer le Page 380
Leonard Gardner Fat City 134
John Edward Williams Stoner 288
  Butcher's Crossing 296
Oakley Hall Warlock 471
J A Baker The Peregrine 224
William H Gass In the Heart of the Heart of the Country 149
Stefan Zweig Chess Story 112
Jan Morris Hav 320
Silvina Ocampo Thus Were Their Faces 384
James Hogg Confessions of a Justified Sinner 210
Frans G Bengtsson The Long Ships 552
Tete-Michel Kpomassie An African in Greenland 320
Dorothy Baker Young Man with a Horn 192
  The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes  
John Barth Chimera 324
Robert Coover    
Guy Davenport The Jules Verne Steam Balloon 158
John Hawkes    
Robert Irwin Limits of Vision 128
  The Arabian Nightmare 244
Marcel Schwob Imaginary Lives 192
Iain Sinclair White Chapell, Scarlet Tracings 210
William H Gass The Tunnel 652
Julio Cortazar    
Pessoa    
Angela Carter Nights at the Circus 370
Gabriel Garcia Marquez    
Isabel Allende    
Karen Russell    
Cesar Aira    
Cynthia Ozick The Puttermesser Papers 227
  Messiah of Stockholm 106
Amin Maalouf Samarkand 200
Tabucchi Requiem: A hallucination 112
  Indian Nocturne 109
Joanna Kavenna The Ice Museum 304
Ivo Andrič The Bridge on the Drina 318
  The Devil's Yard  
Ben Lerner Leaving Atocha Station 172
Italo Calvino If On a Winter's Night a Traveler 260
Tom Stoppard Arcadia  
David Lindsay Voyage to Arcturus 303
Jose Saramago    
Alfred Kubin The Other Side  
Giorgio De Maria The Twenty Days of Turin  
Vikram Paralkar The Afflictions  
Leena Krohn Tainaron: Mail from Another City  
Ursula LeGuin Changing Planes  
Zachary Mason The Lost Books of the Odyssey  
  Metamorphica  
Milorad Pavic Dictionary of the Khazars  
  Landscape Painted with Tea  
Reza Negarestani Cyclonopedia  
Angélica Gorodischer Kalpa Imperial  
  Trafalgar  
Hal Duncan An A-Z of the Fantastic City  
  Susurrus on Mars  
W.S Merwin The Shadow of Sirius  
Don DeLillo Underworld  
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient  
Dino Buzzati The Tartar Steppe  
Michael Cisco Animal Money  
  The Narrator  
Samanta Schweblin Fever Dream  
Brian Evenson A Collapse of Horses  
Max Blecher Immediate Irreality  
Thomas Ligotti Teatro Grotesco  
Kōbō Abe The Woman in the Dunes  
Arthur Machen The White People  
Robert W Chambers The King in Yellow  
Steven Peck A Short Stay in Hell  
Kathleen Dexter The Fifth Life of the Cat Woman  
Chloe Aridijs Book of Clouds  
Davy Rothbart My Heart is an Idiot  
Donald Harrington The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks  
Edogawa Ranpo Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination  
Jenny Erpenbeck Visitation  
  The End of Days  
Teju Cole Open City  
Rachel Cusk Transit  
  Outline  
Will Self    
Geoff Dyer The Missing of the Somme  
  Out of Sheer Rage  
Patrick Modiano    
Dušan Šarotar Panorama  
Dezső Kosztolányi Kornél Esti  
John Keene Counternarratives  
Rikki Ducornet Fountains of Neptune  
Keith Thomas Man and the Natural World  
Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic A Gothic Soul  
Ladislav Klima Glorious Nemesis  
Ladislav Fuks    
Gustav Meyrink    
Vladislav Vancura    
Vitezslav Nesval    
Rober Pinget    
Hilda Hilst The Obscene Madame D  
Evan Dara    
Shahrnush Parsipur Women Without Men  
Iraj Pezeshkzad My Uncle Napoleon  

Words

Books I've read.

Author Book
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
Lermontov Hero of Our Time
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky The Letter Killers Club
Han Kang The Vegetarian
Antonio Tabucchi Requiem: A Hallucination
Jan Morris Hav
Richard Brautigan Trout Fishing in America
Nathalie Sarraute Tropisms
Thomas Bernhard The Loser
Danilo Kiš The Encyclopedia of the Dead
José Saramago Blindness
Dino Buzzati The Tartar Steppe
Ladislav Klima Glorious Nemesis
Mark Fisher Capitalist Realism
Hilda Hilst The Obscene Madame D
Amin Maalouf Samarkand
Rachel Cusk Outline
Cathleen Schine The Grammarians
Italo Calvino If on a winter's night a traveler
John Williams Stoner
Shahrnush Parsipur Women Without Men
Gabriel García Márquez Love in the Time of Cholera
Vernor Vinge A Fire Upon The Deep
Vernor Vinge A Deepness in The Sky
Martin Loughlin The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction
John le Carré Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John le Carré The Honourable Schoolboy
John Drury Clark Ignition!
Terry Pratchett Guards! Guards!
Tim Powers Declare
Hermann Hesse Steppenwolf
Umberto Eco Foucault's Pendulum
Ben Okri The Famished Road
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Purple Hibiscus
Ahmadou Kourouma Allah is Not Obliged
Jose Eduardo Agualusa The Book of Chameleons
J.M. Coetzee Disgrace
Tayeb Salih Season of Migration to the North
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
Boubacar Boris Diop Murambi, The Book of Bones
V.S. Naipaul A Bend in the River
Joseph Heller Catch-22
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Wizard of the Crow
Amos Tutuola The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Amos Tutuola The Village Witch Doctor and Other Stories
   
J.M. Coetzee Life and Times of Michael K
Alasdair Gray Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Wilma Stockenström The Expedition to the Baobab Tree
Novalis The Novices of Sais
Don DeLillo White Noise
Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station
Ben Lerner 10:04
Marjane Satrapi Persepolis
   
Simone de Beauvoir A Very Easy Death
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All Be Feminists
Ayi Kwei Armah The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Nawal El Saadawi Woman at Point Zero
Ousmane Sembène Xala
Sam Munson Dog Symphony
Eduardo Galeano Memory of Fire Vol I: Genesis
Jean Giono The Man Who Planted Trees
Mikhail Bulgakov Morphine
Enrique Vila-Matas A Brief History of Portable Literature
Georgi Gospodinov The Physics of Sorrow
Jose Eduardo Agualusa A General Theory of Oblivion
Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita
Meša Selimović Death and the Dervish
David Mazzucchelli Asterios Polyp
Tua Forström One Evening in October I Rowed Out on the Lake
Sabahattin Ali Madonna in a Fur Coat
Milan Kundera Ignorance
Naguib Mahfouz Midaq Alley
Sinan Antoon The Corpse Washer
Robbie Arnott Flames

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