What are some of the most game-changing works of literature of all time, and why?

Answer added in topic Literature.Adrian Chan, Social interaction designer, social media strat... Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon is my all-time personal favorite, post-modern for its style, baroque in its complexity. A brilliant and influential work by Robbes-Grillet titled In the Labyrinth defined the new french roman -- a style of "objectivism" in writing that sought to avoid subjectivity by means of objective description. It's unsettling in its effect. Maurice Blanchot sought to write "outside" language, and is well worth it if you're interested in literature as philosophy. Under the Volcano is a towering work of American prose, and was quite possibly written drunk. Nabokov is impossible to ignore, but the question in his case is Which one?Hopscotch, by Cortazar, is another post-modern work of genius. hard to ignore Borges' short stories, for their fantastic conceptual developments. These are personal favorites, and 20th century only. Such a huge question!See question on Quora


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