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[Anonymous No.23172053]

Are there any parody books in which the author makes fun of another author's style of writing and storytelling?

[Anonymous No.23172060]

>>23172053
Hemingway’s first novel

[Anonymous No.23172074]

>>23172053
Off the top of my head here are some good ones though they might be a bit heavy for you.

*Proust’s essays for Le Figaro
Proust used to comment on current events but he did it in the style of famous French authors such as Balzac or Racine. The one he did on a case of the kid killing his mom and then himself should be required reading before diving into ISOLT.

*James Joyce’s Ulysses chapter Oxen of the Sun- Joyce satirizes the entire English language here. He writes the chapter so that each section is a parody of an English writer, beginning with Medieval English such as the play Everyman and ending with incoherent 20th century Irish and nigger slang and parodies of evangelical preachers and the like.

[Anonymous No.23172088]

>>23172053
Don Quixote

[Anonymous No.23172126]

>>23172088
What author was he parodying? I didn't ask for a parody of a genre

[Anonymous No.23172129]

>>23172088
Not really.

[Anonymous No.23172165]

>>23172060
Torrents of Spring is more satire than parody and very much in Hemingway's own style. Not very good but a quick read.

[Anonymous No.23172196]

>>23172053
Shakespeare's As you Like it was a response to Edmund Spenser's The Fairie Queene. Milton was then a response to Shakespeare.
Paglia discusses this in Sexual Personae.

[Anonymous No.23172200]

>>23172053
Gilbert Sorrentino’s Mulligan Stew reads like a parody (and, simultaneously, a celebration) of poor writing - the book contains several chapters by a fictional author who’s rather talentless and driven mad by his failures. Much of the rest is based on references to various real authors and their works.

[Anonymous No.23172208]

>>23172053
>storytelling

Petronius’ Satyricon is a parody of the Odyssey. Whereas, Odysseus falls a foul of Poseidon it is Encolpius who falls victim to Pripaus. He loses his sexual abilities and is tormented by Priapus throughout the story. Priapus sends a dream to Lichas which tells the man where to search for Encolpius.

[Anonymous No.23172239]

>>23172053
Max Beerbohm, who is no longer read, but was a big deal in the literary scene of 1910s London, wrote a book of Christmas stories - A Christmas Garland - parodying contemporary authors. Most of his targets are unknown to me (has a soul on /lit/ ever read Galsworthy?), so the joke goes over my head, but the ones I do know are spot on. E.g.:

Henry James
>It was with the sense of a, for him, very memorable something that he peered now into the immediate future, and tried, not without compunction, to take that period up where he had, prospectively, left it. But just where the deuce had he left it? The consciousness of dubiety was, for our friend, not, this morning, quite yet clean-cut enough to outline the figures on what she had called his "horizon," between which and himself the twilight was indeed of a quality somewhat intimidating. He had run up, in the course of time, against a good number of "teasers;" and the function of teasing them back—of, as it were, giving them, every now and then, "what for"—was in him so much a habit that he would have been at a loss had there been, on the face of it, nothing to lose.

GK Chesterton
>That it is human to err is admitted by even the most positive of our thinkers. Here we have the great difference between latter-day thought and the thought of the past. If Euclid were alive to-day (and I dare say he is) he would not say, "The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." He would say, "To me (a very frail and fallible being, remember) it does somehow seem that these two angles have a mysterious and awful equality to one another." The dislike of schoolboys for Euclid is unreasonable in many ways; but fundamentally it is entirely reasonable. Fundamentally it is the revolt from a man who was either fallible and therefore (in pretending to infallibility) an impostor, or infallible and therefore not human.

Joseph Conrad
>The hut in which slept the white man was on a clearing between the forest and the river. Silence, the silence murmurous and unquiet of a tropical night, brooded over the hut that, baked through by the sun, sweated a vapour beneath the cynical light of the stars. Mahamo lay rigid and watchful at the hut's mouth. In his upturned eyes, and along the polished surface of his lean body black and immobile, the stars were reflected, creating an illusion of themselves who are illusions.

>The roofs of the congested trees, writhing in some kind of agony private and eternal, made tenebrous and shifty silhouettes against the sky, like shapes cut out of black paper by a maniac who pushes them with his thumb this way and that, irritably, on a concave surface of blue steel. Resin oozed unseen from the upper branches to the trunks swathed in creepers that clutched and interlocked with tendrils venomous, frantic and faint. Down below, by force of habit, the lush herbage went through the farce of growth—that farce old and screaming, whose trite end is decomposition.

[Anonymous No.23172246]

>>23172053
bukowski's pulp makes fun of whole genre

[Anonymous No.23172941]

"Bored Of The Rings" by Douglas Kenney and Henry Beard
"Nightlight" by the Harvard Lampoon (parody of Twilight)
"Call Of United Airlines" by G. Farmer (parody of /lit/ troll F Gardner) https://files.catbox.moe/aw9gz2.pdf

[Anonymous No.23173214]

>>23172053
Might makes right

[Anonymous No.23173251]

>>23172053
Shamela by Henry Fielding is probably the most famous example

[Anonymous No.23173284]

"The Dunciad" by Alexander Pope
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunciad

[Anonymous No.23173285]

>>23172053
>Don Quixote

[Anonymous No.23173310]

>>23172053
"Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle is a parody of Hegel.

[Anonymous No.23173347]

>>23172053
In a way, Life of Samuel Johnson by Boswell. It's like a sitcom of an 18th century literary circle in england, and of the life of Samuel Johnson in particular.

[Anonymous No.23173788]

>>23172053
>Post says "makes fun of another author"
>People recommend parodies of whole genres
For a literature board y'all whores can't read omg