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Are there any foreign language books (ie not English) that are similar in style to Alice in Wonderland?

The only book I can really think of which has some parraells in The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.

So yeah, could anyone suggest any originally foreign-language books that are similar in style/concept to Alice in Wonderland?

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The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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