Faux dictionaries and encyclopedias
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| - | *Bierce's ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' (1900s-10s) | + | *Ambrose Bierce's ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' (1900s-10s) |
| - | *Flaubert's ''[[Dictionary of Received Ideas]]'' (1911-13) | + | *Gustave Flaubert's ''[[Dictionary of Received Ideas]]'' (1911-13) |
| *Georges Bataille's ''[[Critical Dictionary]]'' (1929-30) | *Georges Bataille's ''[[Critical Dictionary]]'' (1929-30) | ||
| *Raymond Queneau's ''[[Encyclopédie des sciences inexactes]]'' (written between 1930-34) | *Raymond Queneau's ''[[Encyclopédie des sciences inexactes]]'' (written between 1930-34) | ||
| - | *Eluard and Breton's ''[[Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme]]'' (1938) | + | *Paul Eluard and André Breton's ''[[Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme]]'' (1938) |
| *Acéphale's ''[[Encyclopaedia Da Costa]]'' (1947-?) | *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" | + | *Jorge Luis 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]] | *Umberto Eco's [[Cacopedia]] | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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Illustration: Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe by Eugène Bataille
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- Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary (1900s-10s)
- Gustave 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)
- Paul Eluard and André Breton's Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme (1938)
- Acéphale's Encyclopaedia Da Costa (1947-?)
- Jorge Luis 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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