Faux dictionaries and encyclopedias
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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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