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20855062 No.20855062 [Reply] [Original]

What's the western equivalent of this?

>> No.20855071
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>>20855062

>> No.20855089

>>20855062
Infinite Jest

>> No.20855106

Canterbury Tales. Longform religious and societal commentary that's also something of a literary joke (or series of jokes) by the author.

>> No.20855123

>>20855089
If you wanted to pick a modern work than M&D would be much better and it could certainly be viewed as the US equivalent but not the western equivalent which I do not think really exists since it will have about as much to say on the west as a whole as Journey to the West has to say about the East as a whole.

>> No.20856358

>>20855062
The Golden Ass, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Gulliver's Travels, Tristram Shandy.

>> No.20856376

>>20855062
>mythology
Odyssey
Beowulf
>obscenely long epic
Don Quixote
Les Miserables
War and Peace

>> No.20856389

It's a comedic bildungsroman of monkey, who is man with earnest rather than affectated pretensions. Monkey-man is virtuous man as he truly is rather than virtuous man as he imagines himself. Monkey-man is overemotional, grasping, criminally trangressive of natural order, determined, brave, and enterprising in his vocation to raise his station to godhood, etc.

>> No.20856407

>>20855062
The real answer is Pilgrim's Progress

>> No.20856428

>>20855106
Only good answer

>> No.20856770

>>20855062
There is none. Everyone who says there is has never read it.