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Douglas Adams is the only author I've come across who has used recursion in fiction. "in short, all the paraphernalia common to all restaurants where little ex
by mixmax 14y ago
Douglas Adams is the only author I've come across who has used recursion in fiction.
"in short, all the paraphernalia common to all restaurants where little expense has been spared to give the impression that no expense has been spared."
The man was a litterary genius.
- monsterix 14y agoDid you mean litterary or literary?
- biggfoot 14y agoYeah. Litterary sounds like ... litter. That can't be good.
- gsk 14y agoHeinlein has used it. "By His Bootstraps" is quite enjoyable for it's recursive time paradoxes.
- phreeza 14y agoPhilip K Dick also did a kind of recursion in The Man in the High Castle, where in the story there is another story being written, which is basically the different version of the original story.
- nopassrecover 14y agoWitty, but doesn't seem particularly recursive (no more than language generally).
- yesbabyyes 14y agoMichael Ende's The Neverending Story is quite self-referential. Actually, I think there are many examples of recursion in literature. Not that any of it takes away from Douglas Adams' genius.