Faux dictionaries and encyclopedias
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- | *Bierce's ''[[Devil's Dictionary]]'' | + | *Ambrose Bierce's ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'' (1900s-10s) |
- | *Flaubert's ''[[Dictionary of Received Ideas]]'' | + | *Gustave Flaubert's ''[[Dictionary of Received Ideas]]'' (1911-13) |
- | *Eluard and Breton's ''[[Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme]]'', defining for example reality starting with the words "La " réalité " est aux doigts de cette femme qui souffle à la première page des dictionnaires." | + | *Georges Bataille's ''[[Critical Dictionary]]'' (1929-30) |
- | *Georges Bataille's ''[[Critical Dictionary]]'' | + | *Raymond Queneau's ''[[Encyclopédie des sciences inexactes]]'' (written between 1930-34) |
- | *Georges Bataille's ''[[Da Costa Encyclopedia]]'' | + | *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]]'' (1942), a fictitious taxonomy | ||
+ | *Umberto Eco's [[Cacopedia]] | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Dictionary]] | *[[Dictionary]] | ||
+ | *[[Fictitious entry]] | ||
*[[Subversion]] | *[[Subversion]] | ||
- | *[[Koen Brams]]’s ''[[The Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists]]'' | ||
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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 (1942), a fictitious taxonomy
- Umberto Eco's Cacopedia
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