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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.

>> No.20634582

>>20634551
All of Borges is like this

>> No.20634587

>>20634551
Browne, De Quincey, riCHAD burton and the dadaists

>> No.20634595

>>20634551
my diary desu

>> No.20634600

>>20634582
No he's not. I've never seen Borges do anything like this.
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Third_Book/Chapter_X..
This is what I'm talking about.

>> No.20634608

>>20634551
Don quixote ofcourse

>> No.20634610

>>20634551
Thomas Browne was like this. He was a mad English polymath who lived in the 1600s and wrote long elaborate sentences about everything.

Another Thomas, De Quincey, quotes quite a bit of classical stuff. He was famously precocious (fluent in Greek and Latin when he was ten or something).


Rabelais was Sterne's favourite author, I believe, and Tristram Shandy was supposedly inspired by G & P. But it's more allusions than straightfoward quotations.

Two modern essay collections by pretty well-read guys: Homage To Qwertyuiop by Anthony Burgess, and Cultural Amnesia by Clive James.

>> No.20634619

>>20634587
>the dadaists
What are some examples?

>> No.20634630

>>20634587
>>20634610
I've been interested in reading Urn Burial and Suspiria de Profundis for quite some time. Perhaps it's time to get around to them.

>> No.20634647

>>20634551
Thomas Urquhart's (own) works
Ducasse's Poésies

>> No.20634651

>>20634610
Thomas Browne is 10/10 kino.

>> No.20634940

>>20634551
I think Aulus Gellius' Attic Nights might interest you.

>> No.20635344

>>20634940
Now that seems interesting.

>> No.20635906

>>20634551
In the Saragossa Manuscript there's a place where one of the characters 1. Goes over history of 17th and 18th century mathematics and 2. Argues against enlightenment materialist philosophy.