/lit/ - Literature

>>13968740
So this is becoming a thing after all? Nice.
I've read 2/3 of them, they're great, would read again, would put on an armor and fight windmills with, I'm eager to read the third one.

>>13968740
>why has no one been able to write anything nearly as funny as these books in 300+ years?
Tristram Shandy was written in 1760, and 1770 is when Rousseau's preromantic work start to gain traction. From then on it's full Romantic roller-coaster, and Romanticism is pretty self-serious at heart. Then Romanticism shattered in various sefl-absorbed schools who then reunited in the form of modernism (mostly autistic romanticism plus pretend coldness) and later postmodernism (modernism turned sour).

All in all a pretty bleak succession. People are now trying to get away from representation and see it as an impingement on their natural joy (in practice they turn out to be right).
In Sterne's time writing and reading where still seen as liberating and joy-inducing.

>>13968740
But I have read it, it's the usual meme trilogy that I haven't read completely (I've only read Ulysses; haven't read Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow).
Don Quixote > Gargantua and Pantagruel > Tristram Shandy (would be #1 if the quality didn't drop after Tristram finishes talking about his birth, also the romance part related to his uncle is extremely cringe)

>>13968740
G&P is just BRAAAAAP LMAO FARTS

>>13968740
Tristram blows. Others are great.

>Why yes, Tristram Shandy is my favourite novel, how could you tell?

>>13969956
>Tristram blows

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>>13970006
>NOOO YOU CAN'T CRITIZE TRISTRAM IT'S SO FUNNY

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>>13970022
Top tier argumentation there, bunch of retards.

>>13970028
>NOOO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PROPER ARGUMENT YOU FUCKING RETARDS

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>>13970053
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but i have read them, anon.

on the poetics of shitposting

Great choice of Tristram cover. Now add Anatomy of Melancholy for a tetralogy.

>>13970377
But that trilogy is mostly about funny books, isn't that book about Melancholy on the other side of the spectrum?
If anything it needs a German or Italian book of high-minded comedy (and no, I don't mean the divine one, that one belongs to an earlier spirit).

>>13968766
Fuck you the romantic era was based

>>13970381
Anatomy of Melancholy is secretly hilarious, but it takes an extremely dry humor and a bookish persuasion to see it. He satirically opens the book calling himself Democritus Junior, for example, and goes on long digressions about the decline in academic standards and the varieties of ugly women.

>>13970381
Burton wrote a play about faux academic pseud conmen infiltrating a university and scamming and cucking the townsfolk

>>13970391
You're talking to someone who has learnt by heart thousand of verses of Romantic poetry. Still the brooding and foreboding character of their writing cannot be denied.

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>>13970413
Okay that seems pretty funworthy. Still an Italian or German addition would be nice.

>>13970422
>Still an Italian or German addition would be nice.
The classic meme trilogy is wholly angloid, though.

>>13970567
True, but Ye olde Culture was more multinational that contemporary meme-culture.

>>13971707
I regularly speak with people from all across the world via the internet, some of whom also browse 4channel.org/lit/ and contribute to the creation of the freshest dank literary memes.

>>13968740
Don Quixote is too well known (not to say the other two aren't well known), I suggest either Simplicius Simplicissimus or Tomcat Murr to replace it

I've read Don Quick-sotty and Trismegistus Shandy. Two out of three ain't bad.

>>13971698
Brainlet cope

>>13972317
>Simplicius Simplicissimus
Good taste but all of the books in the meme trilogy are very well known to one or another demographic. The type who'd laud DQ as the best-ever Spanish novel are of the same genre that'd laud Ulysses similarly for English.

>i'm in

>>13970567
>the classic meme triloly was wholly angloid
>Sterne
>Cervantes
>Rabelais
None of these were anglo, Sterne was only half Anglo.

>>13970276
Nice bell-curve faggot, but maybe you should have stopped before reaching its apex.

>>13971917
Yes but we all speak English. Shakespeare read Plutarch in Latin, his contemporaries read the Italian Petrarchists.

>>13974260
He was speaking of the original meme trilogy of /lit/, Ulysses, Infinite Jest, and Gravity Rainbow.

>>13974260
lern 2 rede, this is the Ye Olde meme trilogy not the Classic meme trilogy

>>13968740
i thought post malone was younger

My new Quarto btw.

can we have an abrahamic trilogy pic

lmao dicknoses haha