Big, juicy encyclopedic novels where the author flexes their knowledge on all sorts of subjects, please? Doesn't even need to be tightly woven into the story. I just love when writers go off on history, art, science, society, whatever.I love stuff like Lost Illusions, Les Misérables, In Search of Lost Time, and Life: A User's Manual for that exact reason.
>>24727407Moby Dick does this to an autistic degree
>>24727407Burton (though Anatomy of Melancholy is not really a novel), Huysmans, MannSeconding Moby-Dick. Maaaaybe Confidence-Man
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The Meme Trilogy is all very good especially since you like to read encyclopedic knowledge the same way i do where its the author intentionally trying to be obnoxious (Gravity's Rainbow) or just showing offThe Recognitions (William Gaddis) is more autistically allusive than Melville in Moby Dick and Gaddis continued to use encyclopedic knowledge as his career went onJoseph McElroy is encyclopedic and has this weird quality of his writing where i have no idea whats going on at almost all times but i keep turning the page. would recommend History a Paraphrase and Women and Men if you can find themi do not really enjoy William Vollman but he has many many books that are encyclopedicobv these books are massive undertakings and i have, go figure, encyclopedic interests. Stephen Moore is a critic thats on our wavelength so look up interviews with him like this one since they namedrop more underground encyclopedic novels => https://thecollidescope.com/2021/01/03/giddy-for-gaddis-an-interview-with-steven-moore/all told however the brightest minds in any field are encyclopedic. Lyam Thomas Christopher w/ his Kabbalah Magic book is, Alexander and Sadiku's Fundamentals of Electric Circuits quotes literary people all over the place, Simon Schama's Citizens (history of french revolution) is too. happy reading man. i love it when authors yap too. you will be a genius!!!!!
