Faux dictionaries and encyclopedias
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| - | *Bierce's ''[[Devil's Dictionary]]'' (1900s-10s) | + | *Bierce's ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' (1900s-10s) |
| *Flaubert's ''[[Dictionary of Received Ideas]]'' (1911-13) | *Flaubert's ''[[Dictionary of Received Ideas]]'' (1911-13) | ||
| *Georges Bataille's ''[[Critical Dictionary]]'' (1929-30) | *Georges Bataille's ''[[Critical Dictionary]]'' (1929-30) | ||
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Illustration: Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe by Eugène Bataille
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- Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary (1900s-10s)
- Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas (1911-13)
- Georges Bataille's Critical Dictionary (1929-30)
- Raymond Queneau's Encyclopédie des sciences inexactes (written between 1930-34)
- Eluard and Breton's Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme (1938)
- Acéphale's Encyclopaedia Da Costa (1947-?)
- Borges's Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, a fictional encyclopedia invented by the writer Jorge Luis Borges in his 1942 essay "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"
- Umberto Eco's Cacopedia
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