Most difficult novels

Descrição
The most difficult, hard to read novels with high demands on reader in the whole history of literature.
1
Ulysses
de James Joyce
24,086 membros
378 resenhas
4
17 Members
Quixada, lahochstetler, SilentInAWay, absurdeist, Cecrow, roby72, WSB7, ncgraham, Artran, thecoroner, LisaMaria_C, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, MccMichaelR,
2
The Sound and the Fury
de William Faulkner
17,284 membros
226 resenhas
4
12 Members
lahochstetler, SilentInAWay, absurdeist, Cecrow, WSB7, artturnerjr, Artran, thecoroner, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, MccMichaelR,Quixada ,
3
Moby Dick
de Herman Melville
35,584 membros
542 resenhas
3.8
10 Members
paradoxosalpha, Cecrow, roby72, WSB7, artturnerjr, thecoroner, kara.shamy, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, MccMichaelR,Artran
4
Finnegans Wake
de James Joyce
5,331 membros
59 resenhas
3.9
9 Members
Quixada, absurdeist, roby72, WSB7, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, MccMichaelR,
5
In Search of Lost Time
de Marcel Proust
3,893 membros
46 resenhas
½ 4.5
9 Members
lahochstetler, Cecrow, roby72, WSB7, Artran, thecoroner, JuliaMaria, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,absurdeist ,
6
LARANJA MECÂNICA
de Anthony Burgess
25,870 membros
389 resenhas
4
9 Members
Quixada, roby72, WSB7, artturnerjr, thecoroner, Beorn_se_Bacaire, ahef1963, FranzK72, MccMichaelR, ,Artran ,
7
Arco-íris da gravidade
de Thomas Pynchon
10,758 membros
142 resenhas
4.1
7 Members
paradoxosalpha, absurdeist, roby72, WSB7, thecoroner, FranzK72, MccMichaelR,
8
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
de Laurence Sterne
7,674 membros
113 resenhas
3.9
6 Members
Cecrow, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda, MccMichaelR
9
The Recognitions
de William Gaddis
2,215 membros
36 resenhas
½ 4.3
6 Members
absurdeist, roby72, WSB7, thecoroner, FranzK72, MccMichaelR
10
Mrs. Dalloway
de Virginia Woolf
20,642 membros
330 resenhas
3.9
7 Members
roby72, thecoroner, JuliaMaria, ahef1963, kara.shamy, FranzK72, MccMichaelR,Artran ,
11
Rumo ao Farol
de Virginia Woolf
17,591 membros
270 resenhas
3.9
5 Members
WSB7, thecoroner, JuliaMaria, FranzK72, MccMichaelR,Artran
12
House of Leaves
de Mark Z. Danielewski
15,688 membros
377 resenhas
4.1
5 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, Ignatius777, ManWithAnAgenda, MccMichaelR,Cecrow
Explicações
Cecrow : It's an easy read, unless you count having to refer to footnotes, turn it upside down or hold it up to a mirror as difficult.
13
Graça Infinita
de David Foster Wallace
13,180 membros
243 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, JuliaMaria, MccMichaelR
14
Pale Fire
de Vladimir Nabokov
7,948 membros
139 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
WSB7, thecoroner, FranzK72, MccMichaelR
15
The Waves
de Virginia Woolf
5,372 membros
74 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
WSB7, Artran, JuliaMaria, FranzK72
16
Hopscotch
de Julio Cortázar
5,113 membros
100 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
WSB7, thecoroner, FranzK72, MccMichaelR
17
Under the Volcano
de Malcolm Lowry
4,403 membros
88 resenhas
3.8
4 Members
paradoxosalpha, roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72
18
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
de William S. Burroughs
4,290 membros
57 resenhas
½ 3.6
5 Members
paradoxosalpha, WSB7, thecoroner, FranzK72, MccMichaelR,Artran
19
Petersburg
de Andrei Bely
1,500 membros
24 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
roby72, Artran, thecoroner, FranzK72
20
J R
de William Gaddis
1,374 membros
19 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
absurdeist, thecoroner, FranzK72, MccMichaelR
21
The Death of Virgil
de Hermann Broch
1,180 membros
14 resenhas
4
4 Members
SilentInAWay, Artran, thecoroner, FranzK72
22
The Tunnel
de William H. Gass
906 membros
11 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
absurdeist, WSB7, thecoroner, FranzK72
23
The Conservationist
de Nadine Gordimer
796 membros
23 resenhas
3.2
4 Members
DorsVenabili, thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72
24
The Man Without Qualities
de Robert Musil
617 membros
12 resenhas
4.2
5 Members
roby72, thecoroner, JuliaMaria, FranzK72, MccMichaelR,Artran
25
Doctor Faustus
de Thomas Mann
4,101 membros
47 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72
26
Dhalgren
de Samuel R. Delany
3,735 membros
74 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
paradoxosalpha, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda
27
Nightwood
de Djuna Barnes
3,126 membros
58 resenhas
½ 3.5
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72
28
Baltasar and Blimunda
de José Saramago
2,461 membros
49 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72
29
Wittgenstein's Mistress
de David Markson
1,522 membros
35 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
absurdeist, thecoroner, MccMichaelR
30
The experience of pain
de Carlo Emilio Gadda
407 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72
31
Horcynus Orca
de Stefano D'Arrigo
109 membros
4 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72
32
Heart of Darkness
de Joseph Conrad
23,598 membros
389 resenhas
½ 3.6
3 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, MccMichaelR,Artran
33
The Canterbury Tales
de Geoffrey Chaucer
21,999 membros
169 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963, FranzK72,Artran
34
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
de James Joyce
21,209 membros
217 resenhas
½ 3.7
5 Members
artturnerjr, ahef1963, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda, MccMichaelR,absurdeist , ,Artran
35
Blood Meridian
de Cormac McCarthy
11,586 membros
272 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, MccMichaelR
36
Absalom, Absalom!
de William Faulkner
7,661 membros
107 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
roby72, WSB7, Artran, thecoroner,Quixada ,
37
2666
de Roberto Bolaño
6,628 membros
185 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
thecoroner, MccMichaelR
38
The Painted Bird
de Jerzy Kosiński
2,973 membros
74 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
WSB7, thecoroner, FranzK72,MccMichaelR
39
Cosmos
de Witold Gombrowicz
641 membros
10 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
Artran, thecoroner
40
The Book of the New Sun
de Gene Wolfe
635 membros
9 resenhas
½ 4.3
2 Members
paradoxosalpha, souloftherose
41
Greed
de Elfriede Jelinek
233 membros
4 resenhas
3.2
2 Members
Artran, JuliaMaria
42
Porius
de John Cowper Powys
200 membros
5 resenhas
4
2 Members
absurdeist, MccMichaelR
43
O Pêndulo de Foucaul
de Umberto Eco
17,496 membros
258 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
roby72, thecoroner, FranzK72,Cecrow ,
44
The Island of the Day Before
de Umberto Eco
7,158 membros
67 resenhas
½ 3.3
Member
paradoxosalpha
45
The Glass Bead Game
de Hermann Hesse
6,873 membros
99 resenhas
4.1
Member
paradoxosalpha
46
The Tale of Genji
de Shikibu Murasaki
5,514 membros
53 resenhas
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
47
Johnny Got His Gun
de Dalton Trumbo
3,698 membros
75 resenhas
4.2
Member
thecoroner
48
Auto-da-Fé
de Elias Canetti
2,353 membros
30 resenhas
4
Member
Cecrow
49
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
de Samuel Richardson
1,501 membros
29 resenhas
½ 3.5
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963,Cecrow
Explicações
Cecrow : List descriptor says should not be listed due to length; I think that's the only thing difficult about it.
50
Riddley Walker
de Russell Hoban
1,334 membros
25 resenhas
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
51
A Voyage to Arcturus
de David Lindsay
1,280 membros
34 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
paradoxosalpha
52
Bad Behavior
de Mary Gaitskill
1,215 membros
34 resenhas
3.9
Member
thecoroner
53
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
de Lydia Davis
1,131 membros
22 resenhas
4.2
Member
thecoroner
54
Almanac of the Dead
de Leslie Marmon Silko
941 membros
14 resenhas
3.9
Member
thecoroner
55
Jealousy
de Alain Robbe-Grillet
625 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Artran
56
A Tale of A Tub
de Jonathan Swift
563 membros
13 resenhas
3.2
Member
thecoroner
57
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
533 membros
3 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
thecoroner, MccMichaelR,Artran
58
The Making of Americans
de Gertrude Stein
445 membros
3 resenhas
3.1
Member
thecoroner
59
The Unfortunates
de B. S. Johnson
407 membros
9 resenhas
4.1
Member
thecoroner
60
Impressions of Africa
de Raymond Roussel
388 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
tros
61
The Apes of God
de Wyndham Lewis
307 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.3
Member
absurdeist
62
Perhaps the Stars
de Ada Palmer
257 membros
10 resenhas
4.2
Member
paradoxosalpha
63
Alphabetical Africa
de Walter Abish
239 membros
6 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
thecoroner
64
Passing Time
de Michel Butor
175 membros
4 resenhas
4.1
Member
Artran
65
The Wind
de Claude Simon
87 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.6
Member
Artran
66
Adepti
de Ivan Matoušek
1 membro
½ 4.5
Member
Artran
67
A Voz do Fogo
de Alan Moore
776 membros
14 resenhas
3.9
Member
artturnerjr,Artran
68
Trainspotting
de Irvine Welsh
7,757 membros
79 resenhas
4
Member
absurdeist, ,
69
Fictions
de Jorge Luis Borges
7,600 membros
114 resenhas
½ 4.4
Explicações
Cecrow : Some complex imaginative ideas being explored, but not particularly difficult to read.