I’ve heard these kinds of books (Finnegan’s Wake, Gravity’s Rainbow, The Anatomy of Melancholy) described as a “core dump” by Brian Moriarty (the Infocom game d

I’ve heard these kinds of books (Finnegan’s Wake, Gravity’s Rainbow, The Anatomy of Melancholy) described as a “core dump” by Brian Moriarty (the Infocom game developer). They are books where the authors seemingly put together everything they have in their head into a single work.