/lit/ - Literature

The Good Soldier Švejk

>>17701026
It's this one.

>>17701016
All modern literature is a footnote to Cervantes

Tristram Shandy
Gargantua & Pantagruel

>>17701016
There isn't one.

>>17701016
>fiction

Sancho would never make that face, weak meme.

>>17701337
>>fiction

>>17701016
The Lusiads

>>17701455
Dangerously based

Why is it good? Heared this book ever since high school, never reallly saw a copy of it for sale or in library, shill me

>>17701601
it isnt, now take off your trip you faggot

help was it with libgen it is down HEEELP

>>17701016
>no parables in Sancho's speech
week

>>17701455
too lusocentric desu

>>17701026
fpbp

>>17701026
>unfinished
I'll pass

>>17701408
>be rural villager
>try to take advantage of the town's crazy old man
>he takes you all over the country getting your ass beaten time and time again and refusing to defend you because "muh knight code"

But Sancho would never make that face, yeah right.

>>17701999
>too lusocentric
Thats like complaining that the kalevala is too finnocentric, or the shahnameh to iranocentric, or arthurian tales to britonocentric
Of course if you read other countries' national epics its going to be confusing for you, you have to already know some of the history and culture of that country to enjoy their national epics

Hey guys, i habe a ip ban so i cant make a thread about it, so i'm asking here:
I want to read a biography of Robert E. Lee.
I was thinking of buying pic related. Is it any good? Is there a better one?

>>17701016
Quixote?

>>17701016
You just wanted an excuse to post this meme

>>17701016
I would if it existed. Does anyone have more Don Quixote memes like op?

>>17701026
heard it was boring and unremarkably anti-war

>>17702402
well, nobody’s comparing those books with don quijote and claiming them to be more ‘based’

>>17702585
it’s actually fun and anti-everything (including jews)

>>17701016
why is the windmill episode the only one that gets referenced? it's remarkably short and nowhere near as funny as the whole situation with the two "armies" of sheep where Quixote starts naming a bunch of knights and kings and coming up with backstories for them before coming down and slashing 7 sheep, for which he gets the shit kicked out of him

>>17701262
Came here to post about G&P. Haven't read Tristam Shandy yet, is it as good as this?

>>17702932
Everyone and their mother knows of the windmill episode by cultural osmosis, it's been so vastly referenced across different mediums. Even if you hadn't read a single book in your whole life you would know it.
Making memes of the other more obscure episodes would go over too many heads so everyone plays it safe and keeps referencing the one people are familiar with.

>>17702932
it’s pretty early on in the book and the first scene were we understand donny to be completly mental

>>17703011
Haven't read Gargantua and Pantagruel but Tristram Shandy is not even close to Don Quixote. It's an interesting experiment but really masturbatory.

>>17702408
>>17702408
Please help

>>17702396
>>try to take advantage of the town's crazy old man
Didn't Sancho believe in Quixote's knight delusions when they first set out on their adventure? He thought they were gonna make it rich in no time.

>>17702414
b b b basado

>>17705527
Sancho was self interested. He believed that, despite DQ's hallucinations, he would come up in society so he would just put up with his master's schizo phases. In part 2, Sancho actively lies to DQ and feeds his hallucinations in order to get his way.

>>17702932
I liked the sheep too, however the best is the cave by far.
>what do you mean you left our money in there!