the official clown world lit

[Anonymous No.12982321]

just finished this, laughed aloud at some passages. captures the essence of clown world precisely.
what's the funniest (in an absurd way) book/story you've ever read?

[Anonymous No.12982333]

btw i think one of the unjustly underrated characters is the psychiatrist in the hospital, one of the most accurate personality types in the book, lel

[Anonymous No.12982500]

>>12982321
Did Catch-22 make anyone else get kind of emotional, like towards the end and shit?

[Anonymous No.12982512]

Unironically Deleuze and Guattari

[Anonymous No.12982515]

>>12982333
why did you have to post that pic and give me tfw no bf

[Anonymous No.12982530]

>>12982515
fags can find partners even easier than women can

[Anonymous No.12982534]

>>12982500
did for me as well lad that one scene with the organs very brutal

[Anonymous No.12982538]

>>12982530
yeah but real life fags are disgusting me included, its just a feel

[Anonymous No.12982546]

>>12982534
That shit fucked me up.

[Anonymous No.12982693]

>>12982500
>>12982534
First time I read it the Snowden scene definitely, but also the surprise of the ending was genuinely uplifting

[Anonymous No.12982695]

>>12982693
yeah that ending is quite good, shame the sequel supposedly sucks shit

[Anonymous No.12982845]

>>12982321
I recently read Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller. I laughed my ass off.

[Anonymous No.12982848]

Invitation to a Beheading

[Anonymous No.12982901]

This book had me burst out laughing in public several times.

[Anonymous No.12982906]

>>12982321
Read Good soldier Švejk. It's much better than Catch-22.

[Anonymous No.12982937]

>>12982321
this way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen is some real clown world shit

[Anonymous No.12982939]

>>12982901
leave, reddit

[Anonymous No.12982940]

>>12982321
the communist manifesto

[Anonymous No.12982955]

>>12982940
Still here for the damage control I see

[Anonymous No.12983065]

>>12982321
dead souls

[Anonymous No.12983163]

>>12982939
it's funny

[Anonymous No.12983295]

>>12982500
yes, gave me the "war is hell, son" feels towards the end. the absurdism desensitizes you and creates a rather comedic mood, and no one dies in a comedy with their guts out in military action.
>>12982515
i have a humble collection of those, i think they're comfy.

[Anonymous No.12983317]

>>12982937
just downloaded it, thanks. i saw it on "dark and disturbing" chart but didn't pay much attention

[Anonymous No.12983331]

>>12983295
Chapter 39 "The Eternal City" should have just been entitled "Yossarian Randomly Is Transported To Hell". Compared to the rest of the novel, the dourness of its tone is completely out of place. Besides the description of Snowden, its the most relentlessly grim section of the book. There's no dark comedy to be found there, just darkness.

[Anonymous No.12983365]

>>12983331
at some point i wondered if the whole hell in Rome was dreamt up by him unconscious in the hospital, it really did feel like a fever dream.
i think it's a great metaphor for how harsh and omnipresent army humor still fails to erase the doom of war

[Anonymous No.12983399]

>>12983365
Only at the climax of the novel does the facade of clown world melt away, revealing to Yossarian, much like his discovery of Snowden's entrails, the rotting, hellish squalor and despair hiding beneath the surface. His final interactions with Aarfy in particular are like something taken verbatim out of a horrifying nightmare.

[Anonymous No.12983641]

Gravity's Rainbow

[Anonymous No.12983722]

The Sword of Honor trilogy by Evelyn Waugh is less clown world but has a lot of the clownishness of war. Funny in parts, and reminded me of catch-22 alot.

[Anonymous No.12983865]

>>12983722
fug, forgot to mention Waugh. i've read his Vile bodies, solid comedy despite the fact it's not relevant anymore. i wonder if there are equally good modern works about modern subcultures/demographics that won't be considered boring shit in 10 years
>>12983399
well said, friend. the end also feels like it's a beam of hope melting the goreful filling away to reveal the clowncore again. something like accepting that you can only win if you play by clown rules

[Anonymous No.12983896]

>>12982500
It's been a while since I read it and I was much younger, but I remember getting really aggravated during the bombing mission scenes where it seems like Yossarian is the only one in the cockpit who hasn't gone crazy. Felt like I was actually trapped up there myself.
This thread is making me want to reread the book.

[Anonymous No.12983967]

>>12982500
Yes the moment the deaths start to happen it's really staring to hit heavy on your feelings

[Anonymous No.12984430]

>>12983865
I really like Waugh but haven't read vile bodies. Quick rundown?

[Anonymous No.12984458]

>>12984430
Not him, but it's about the British rich kids who didn't go to the first world war partying and not realising the adults are planning a second world war which they'll have to play in.

[Anonymous No.12984479]

>>12984430
basically a mockery of 20-30's "high society" and its values and style of living. it doesn't have the actual decadent between-wars-era aesthetic, but is as absurd as Catch-22 at some points.
i'd especially note the scene with English customs/censorship closer to the beginning, the way they treat books is still relevant to this day

[Anonymous No.12984547]

wtf is clown world

[Anonymous No.12984554]

>>12984547
A mixture of Evolian and Camusian thought

[Anonymous No.12984555]

>>12984547
pol meme

[Anonymous No.12984591]

>>12984547
absurdist nihilism (nothing matters& also nothing makes sense lmao) but in a positive way (what produces lulz is allowed to have no sense and purpose lmao)

[Anonymous No.12984618]

>>12984547
lol brainlet still stuck in the real world

[Anonymous No.12984748]

chaplain was kind of cutely written. i was glad with how it ended for him.

[Anonymous No.12984777]

>>12984748
literally me without the believing in god stuff

[Anonymous No.12984830]

>>12982321
Catch 22 was so painfully unfunny and boring that I dropped it halfway through

[Anonymous No.12984847]

>>12984830
t. colonel cathcart

[Anonymous No.12984884]

>>12984830
the Catch-22 novel, poem, short story, or essay was so painfully unfunny, boring, or badly-written that i dropped it halfway through.
my condolences, Anon Cathcart

[Anonymous No.12984953]

>>12984777
based. he seemed to be the only non-crazy one.
2bh i just have a retarded clergy fetish and liked the scene where he blushed at tomatoes being compared to tits