/lit/ - Literature

>>22568540
Genuinely Rabelais

Name an author with a bigger brain

Rabelais >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Shakespeare

>started reading things like Jean de La Fontaine's Fables, Charles Perrault's Contes de fées, Madame D'Aulnoy's Contes, Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles, L'Heptaméron and even Gargantua and Pantagruel so I could have a repertoire of funny stories and ribald anecdotes to entertain people with
>finish reading all these and realize I have no friends or anyone to tell these stories to
Would it be weird if I went to a bar and told the person/girl next to me or the bartender the story of the young lady who had hemmorhoids and how she blinded a one-eyed doctor by farting on his one good eye? Or the story about the farmer who found his lost mule by being prescribed an enema?

What books are like The Anatomy of Melancholy, Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Simplicius Simplicissimus, in that the book is mainly the author showing off how well-read they are and how many books they can directly quote in the course of the narrative?
>inb4 Ulysses or some other text full of allusions
I'm not talking about allusions. I'm talking about how the author will directly say, "In Homer's Illiad..." and directly quote something.

For the memers, basically give some books written by autodidacts wanting to show off their learning by autistically quoting everything they've ever read.

>ends Gargantua with someone else's enigma poem about tennis
For what purpose?

So this guy was an alcoholic, right?

>>18751007
>its just gross, why is he so fixated on shit and piss. its revolting

One must imagine Sisyphus brappy

Poopoo Peepee

For me it's Rabelais because he looks like a smug pepe

>>18248153
Don't act like French or some shit is any better. It's the oldest story in the book

>>17804386
>Lautreamont
>forgotten
You know that's a load of shit. Where the heck is Rabelais?

>>17778259
>>uhm, did you know there are PEE PEE JOKES in Shakespeare?
Don't conskite your day-job, kid.

>>17333571
>conskites your breeches

>>17284040
She didn't mention any authors I read, besides Dickens (although positively). I bet she would love it if I stuffed her hatchet wound full of moss

>>17207194
This literal shitposter right here. Just look how smug he is at preemptively mogging on the entire French canon.

Rabelais edition

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>>16277527
>yes

>>13377830
Rabelais.

go late medieval on their ass with this fella

Joyce and Wallace are just brainlet versions of this frenchman.

The OG James Joyce. Why haven't you read him?