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Are there any books where everything is w metaphor? Not just the whole plot, but also every scene, character etc. the more fantastic and obscure the better. I know this kind of applies to all books in a trivial way but you know what I mean.

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William Blake

>> No.22930546

>>22930442
I tried to remember a book where everything is a metaphor as you said, but instead the movie came to my mind.
The Zero Theorem.
I think everything in that movie was a metaphor, an allegory, or something like that, but I'm not sure what metaphor that is, what was it trying to say.
Matrix of course, another movie.
oh, and Kafka.
Kafka's books are very metaphorical, to the point that the whole book, the whole plot is just one big metaphor.
Also myths and fairy-tales, Aesop's fables.

>> No.22930641

>>22930442
The Bible

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WILLIAM BLAKE IS THE TRUE GOAT OF LITRATURE AND THE GREAEST GENIUS HUMANITY HAS EVER PRODUCED, IF YOU HAVE NOT DISCOVERES HIS MEANING YOU MUST DO SO, FOR YOUR MODERN SOUL WHITHERS AND DIES FOR WANT OF BEAUTY AND METAPHYSICAL MEANING

THE FIRST LESSON IS THAT ENVY IS THE CAUSE OF ALL HUMAN EVIL

THE ENVIOUS SOUL IS A SICK ROSE WILTING, NEVER, EVER DENY AN ARTIST HIS POWERS, OR YOU KILL ARTIST AND SELF AT ONCE

FREE YOUR MINDS, SAVE YOUR SOULS, LOVE YOUR LIVES

>> No.22930927

>>22930442
Faerie Queene although in a more worldly, less spiritual way than in Blake. Also just mythology in general.

>> No.22930988

>>22930442
Aurora Consurgens

>> No.22931031

>>22930442
Giles Goat Boy maybe?

>> No.22931053

>>22930442
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

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>>22930546
The Trial didn't seem very metaphorical. Is the castle more like metamorphosis?
>>22930927
it's such a gay fucking allegory though
>>22930988
ah jeez
>>22931053
>>22931031
thanks

>> No.22932980

>>22932813
>it's such a gay fucking allegory though
What exactly is "gay" about it? Seems like a very arrogant and unthoughtful attitude that will end up denying you access to whole realms of cultural understanding and appreciation.