Is it possible for a book to be drenched in sarcasm and irony

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op should have been a qt grill I guess.

Yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki

Kafkas works are full of black humor too.
Absurdism is the name of the concept, I believe

>>8398252
What is Dickens?

>>8398252
The Picture of Dorian Gray
>>8398355
dickens isnt even very ironic by todays standards, but i suppose at the time he was quite revolutionary waoho! Fuck dickens.

>>8398555
>waoho! Fuck dickens

Did you get a stroke, anon?

>>8398252
>Is it possible for a book to be drenched in sarcasm and irony while also having a serious plot?

Sure, have you read The Book of Disquiet?

If not, you should.

>>8398555
Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check some of these out.

I've been reading kafka but I haven't been particularly impressed by the prose or plot, maybe I'm missing something?
>>8398555
I like Wilde's plays, haven't given this a read yet.

>>8398604
I'll look into it.

>>8398252
John Hawkes is great for this sort of thing. Not really sarcasm so much as black humor that never feels obtrusive.

>>8398252
Tristam Shandy
Molloy/Malone Dies/The Unnamable
Really any Joyce

>>8398252
Dead Souls is basically Gogol making the smug frog face while recounting the story of a 19th century land owner who undergoes a profound spiritual transformation.

>>8398252
spike milligan's war memoirs

Never heard of Mann?

...Delillo?

>>8399453
Yes, DeLillo

>>8399433
>Gogol making the smug frog face
кeк

I'm gonna keep that picture in mind next time I read Gogol.

The bible

>>8398252
>What is Catch 22
>What is Slaughterhouse 5
>What is most of Franz Kafka's work
>etc...

>>8399433
I just finished Dead Souls yesterday and this couldn't be any more accurate. Gogol is such a cheeky fuck through the whole book, I feel like he'd fit right in as a modern day /pol/ shitposter