Gene Wolfe is also a master of this style, although he employs less metaphor, more ambiguity, and unreliable narrators.
> Understandingly frustrating if you just want to charge through and find out what happens.
"the device of art is that of ‘making things strange’ and of making form difficult, increasing the difficulty and time taken to perceive, since the process of perception in art is an aim in itself and must be prolonged" (Viktor Shklovskii, 1914)
He’s got some good stories, but I gave up after realising that I really didn’t need to know what every character, no matter how minor, had for breakfast.
One of the funniest things I've read recently. Literally laughed out loud. Thanks for sharing.
His world building is amongst the best I've ever read and yet his writing is plain, crisp and clear.