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?
Proust
Faust
As good as everything Dostoyevsky
Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Epic Cycle
Inferno, Purgatoria, Paradiso
etc etc
Steinbeck had a short one with Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday iirc
>>8277389
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Search_of_Lost_Time
Goethe's Faust - Two parts
Almost every single Dostoyevsky novel were originally serialized.
>>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.
>>8277400
In search of lost time, then.
>>8277403
Indeed! Thanks for the rec.
>>8277381
Gormenghast
>>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".
>>8277381
Trollope's Palliser series - there's six I think
>>8277413
It's the spinoff, like NBC's "Joey" (2004) and "Friends" (1994)
>>8277413
Just read the same translator for all three then it would be like a trilogy. I suggest Lombardo.
Most of Dickens was written as series then published as books later.
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
>>8277469
forgot about Ernesto Sabato's Trilogy
>>8277381
nah
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
woohoo
dance to the music of time, anthony powell
John Updike - Rabbit series
Scarlet Letter trilogy
Phillip Roth - Zuckerman Bound
Louis Begley - Schmidt trilogy
>>8277409
Man you sound very pretentious for a guy that can't be bothered to Google his things.
>>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
