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What literary series are there? Most series I see (like books in a series, e.g. a trilogy) are genre fiction, generally fantasy and science fiction.

What are some example of series' in literary fiction?

>> No.8277385

Proust
Faust
As good as everything Dostoyevsky

>> No.8277386

Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Epic Cycle
Inferno, Purgatoria, Paradiso
etc etc

>> No.8277389

>>8277385
I can't find any record of those three authors having written any series'.

>>8277386
Cheers

>> No.8277390

Steinbeck had a short one with Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday iirc

>> No.8277392

>>8277389
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time

Goethe's Faust - Two parts

Almost every single Dostoyevsky novel were originally serialized.

>> No.8277400

>>8277392
Ah, it's a matter of semantics then, I meant series where these are distinct individual novels forming a greater series, not novels that were published in seperate serialised parts, if that makes sense.

>> No.8277403

>>8277400
In search of lost time, then.

>> No.8277409

>>8277403
Indeed! Thanks for the rec.

>> No.8277410
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>>8277381

>> No.8277412

Gormenghast

>> No.8277413

>>8277410
The Aeneid is hardly part of a trilogy with the other two, it was written in a completely different time and culture, but yeah the first two make a good "duology".

>> No.8277419

>>8277381
Trollope's Palliser series - there's six I think

>> No.8277421

>>8277413
It's the spinoff, like NBC's "Joey" (2004) and "Friends" (1994)

>> No.8277427

>>8277413
Just read the same translator for all three then it would be like a trilogy. I suggest Lombardo.

>> No.8277428

Most of Dickens was written as series then published as books later.

>> No.8277431

>>8277400
>>8277428

>being this autistic

>> No.8277450

>>8277427
>>8277427
You're the first I see recommending Lombardo on /lit/. It's his I enjoyed the most and I think it's best for the first time reader, with Fagles as a close second.

>> No.8277469

Gunter Grass - Danzig Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz - The Cairo Trilogy
Elias Canetti - The Memoir Trilogy
Maxim Gorky - Autobiographical trilogy
Javier Marias - Your Face Tomorrow
Elena Ferrante - The Neapolitan Novels
Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle
William Kennedy - The Albany Cycle
Cormac McCarthy - The Border Trilogy
Samuel Beckett - Trilogy
John Banville - Cleave trilogy

>> No.8277471

>>8277469
forgot about Ernesto Sabato's Trilogy

>> No.8277473

>>8277381
nah

>> No.8277500

William S Burroughs - Nova Trilogy
Jack Kerouac wished/wanted like 12 of his books to have the same character names and form a massive "legend" but his editors made him change the names

Also Mishima had a quadrilogy

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8277776

woohoo

>> No.8277878

dance to the music of time, anthony powell

>> No.8277909

John Updike - Rabbit series
Scarlet Letter trilogy
Phillip Roth - Zuckerman Bound
Louis Begley - Schmidt trilogy

>> No.8277926

>>8277409
Man you sound very pretentious for a guy that can't be bothered to Google his things.

>> No.8277967

>>8277381
henry miller has tropic of cancer/tropic of capricorn

and his nexus series (sexus, plexus, nexus)

ive only read tropic of cancer but it was good