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Just finished Don Quixote. Are there any other books written pre-1850 that are hilarious like this one was?

I was audibly laughing on the train at some of the sections in it.

>> No.5264884
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>> No.5264890

Lawrence Sterne and Diderot wrote some very quixotic adventures worth reading. I liked Diderot better for the ironic philosophy in Jacques the Fatalist and his Master, but Sterne's Sentimental Journey is more compact and with more anglophone humour. Sterne combines thoughts on Hamlet with homage to Don Quixote, whereas Diderot is inspired by Sterne. They're both really memorable and fun reads, I feel more like Sterne every day.

>> No.5264903

Pride and Prejudice

>> No.5264906

>>5264884
what the fuck

>> No.5264912

>>5264884
Sounds like something Nabokov would say.

>> No.5264923

>>5264884
>Dead Souls
It is a funny book, not at all like what the title would suggest.
The title is to the book as that cover is to the title, in fact.

>> No.5264945
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Opinions_of_Tristram_Shandy,_Gentleman

>> No.5264956

>5264881
"The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel" - still amongst the most ridiculously fun books written in the French language. Not sure whether translations are any good

>> No.5264972

The Decameron

The most raunchy book I've ever read and it was written in 1350

>> No.5264978

Diderot's Jacques the Fatalist is very self-aware and very funny

>> No.5265005

Sot-Weed Factor is pretty silly.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/21346/21346-h/21346-h.htm

>> No.5265013

>>5265005

I've been meaning to read this, thanks!

>> No.5265014

>>5264881
Catch-22 was hilarious.

>> No.5265027

OP, this thread reminded me that I've been looking for a good book covering the history of humor/comedy. Anyone got any suggestions?

>> No.5265036
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Madame Bovary because she was such a slut and her husband was oblivious to her carrying-ons.

my sides every time I read it

>> No.5265040

>>5265014
>pre-1850

...

>> No.5265042

>>5265014
>pre-1850
>Catch-22
Faggot

>> No.5265050

>>5265040
>>5265042

It was written around WW1, that's early enough isnt it?

>> No.5265080

>>5264945
>>5264890
tristam shandy definitely

>> No.5265087

>>5265050
Is this bait? Catch-22 was released 1961, WW1 ended almost 50 years before that...

>> No.5265088

>>5265050
that's considered modern by literary standards
hell, most university courses' "modern fiction" modules are post 1750

>> No.5265091

>>5264881
what is a good english translation for this book

>> No.5265095

OP said to say you started with the greatest literary work ever written

it's all downhill from don quixote

>> No.5265098

>>5265087
Yeah but the book was about WW1 so it was definitely not modern.

>> No.5265099

>>5265091
Edith Grossman's with the red cover

>> No.5265105

>>5265098
Did you actually read it? It was "about" WW2 with abundant elements of the Korean War. That makes it postmodern

>> No.5265109

>>5265105
Yeah I read it. Yosarion was my favorite character.

There is not such thing as postmodern. We're always in the modern time since we're in the present.

>> No.5265112

>>5265109
Wow you're right

>> No.5265115

>>5265112
thanx :D

>> No.5265118

New on /lit/, this thread seems like a good place to ask: it seems like most of the content in the #bookz channel is English, but if I'm looking for other language translations of originally English books, where should I do that?

>> No.5265125

>pre 1960 anything
>fun and or exciting
Bet you guys are a real blast at parties.

>> No.5265129

>>5265118
You seem to know English, why would you want to read English originals in any other language?

>> No.5265135

>>5265125
>pleb apologist

>> No.5265147

>>5265129

I can't read as fast in English, and I just want to read, not practice my English.

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>>5265147
That's what destroyed the nations before us.

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>> No.5266794

>>5264881

A lot of what Shakespeare wrote was actually pretty fucking funny if you got what he was saying.

>> No.5266807

>>5264881
Aristophanes

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Soldier_Švejk

Has anyone here read this book? Is it worth reading/buying?

>> No.5267023

>nobody has said candide

fucking cunts.

>> No.5267126

>>5267023
this, candide is the best comedy I have ever read