>book's protagonist compares his own situation by referencing an older, much better book with the same premise
Why would an author shoot himself in the foot like that?
>Wow, I turned into an insect (or "vermin," if you want to get technical) just like Gregor Samsa from Kafka's Metamorphosis!
Do any books actually do this though?
>>7642453
Camus in the Plague, though not exactly similar, brings up Dosto's 2 x 2 is 4 thingy. God Camus sucks dick.
>>7642453
Sounds like something Tao Lin would do.
>book directly references a film or album
>book directly references an entirely fictional work of literature, or film, or album, or painting
>book references
haha I just did this... hoping to get published!
>book is completely submerged in vernacular expressions and obscure references and uses them as if they are common knowledge
>book dips in and out of foreign languages without any warning or compromise
>book has images integrated into and not simply illustrating the text
>book has a pop music soundtrack ie: "(...) and now No Expectations by The Rolling Stones is playing"
>>7642766
>>book is completely submerged in vernacular expressions and obscure references and uses them as if they are common knowledge
James Joyce. So inconsiderate you are!
>>7642442
>book has a protagonist
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>>7642781
operative being 'a'-- a 'main character' really is so lame and passé these days.
>author continuously brings up suicide
>author commits suicide
>>7642876
Hemingway, Woolf, Mainlander, Wallace, Plath...
It's like 99% chance it'll be suicide if it's a main subject.
>>7642794
>'a'--a'
What did he mean by this?
>what is an allusion ?
>>7642442
I like Ironic allusion, like in the Castle or the Jew of Malta.
