Sequelised Vengeance
Added 2025-06-11 11:38:01 +0000 UTCDon Quixote's author was either really petty, kind of a genius, or...both.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Death_of_Ricardo_Reis Saramago incorporates another author (Pessoa) and pessoa's character Reis. Like layers of gauze. if I'd known that about Cervantes, I bet there were another couple of layers I missed. Thank you!
Joe Hopfield
2025-06-13 15:22:21 +0000 UTCMuch more artful than the broadside insults for popular detective novelists, like child and Baldacci.
jmundt33a
2025-06-11 14:25:30 +0000 UTCI have heard Don Quixote described as the first modern novel, so it's perfectly reasonable that it also spawned the rip-off.
Jim Sanderson
2025-06-11 12:57:23 +0000 UTCOh I love that. No litigation, just a well judged roasting. Cervantes has just gone to new heights in my estimation :)
Sally4th
2025-06-11 11:58:42 +0000 UTCEkij, that hilarious comment goes over and beyond .
Fenrir Wolfganger
2025-06-11 11:58:28 +0000 UTCIn Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet series, after a few books the hero's number two comments that her Uncle was a book publisher and she broke his heart by not being the same. The hero is delighted that a Book Publishers is broken. She then starts talking about the incredibly stupid covers her Uncle would put in books about the Hero's life which would have no relevance to the story, the descriptions were familiar to fans of the series.
Fenrir Wolfganger
2025-06-11 11:56:15 +0000 UTCBased on how much I liked The Princess Bride and Just Stab Me Now, I think metafiction might be my favorite "genre." Nice to know it was around 400+ years ago!
Abigail Poirier
2025-06-11 11:52:35 +0000 UTCMaybe the real winners are the windmills we tilted at along the way.
Ekij
2025-06-11 11:42:29 +0000 UTC
