hidden “x game level” mode

Okay so I’m not sure if “x games” is the right word but I’m talking about the books everyone *mostly* says are traditionally more difficult books like:

Ulysses

Infinite Jest

Finnegan’s Wake

In Search of Lost Time

War and Peace

1Q84

…you get the picture!

1. Where are the hidden gems in the west? I recently read “Nightwood” and “Magic Mountain” are less talked about but even those are not obscure.

2. But, more importantly, where are the “literary giants” that are middle eastern? Iranian? Hawaiian? Cuban? Persians? Kenyan? Nigerian? (Countries or dynasties thrown at random)

Beyond the notables (Rushdie, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Allende, Murakami, Márquez, Dumas, Cervantes, being recommended history/myths like Arabian Nights, Tale of Gengi) where are the rest of the world’s hidden “Gravity’s Rainbow”? Do they not exist?

Context to how this came about I am Cuban-American, and it occurred to me when reading Ulysses like hey….hmm. What? No one ever wrote a ridiculously “sentence syntax migraine” or “ egregious usage of commas” “what narrator am I on?!”

I found one by the way, Paradiso. Translation is rough, but it was a fun hunt.

So if this makes any sense at all I would love to here some recommends?

PS if this was a long essay and it didn’t make any sense and was egregious, in it’s own way, it was, possibly, intentional.

by whereisdani_r