Are there books that come close to the atmosphere of Don Quixote?

>>9554330
Chinese novels like Water Margin can be pretty comfy too.

>>9554330
This >>9554434 also Tristram Shandy.

>>9554330
Guilvers travels

Gargantua and Pantagruel
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr

>>9554330
I would add Independent People by Halldor Laxness and A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

>>9554330
Jules vern.

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>>9554330
Tirant lo Blanc was a big influence on Cervantes, but of course much of Don Quixote is mocking the genre. I read it as an unintentional comedy and enjoyed it that way.

Dubliners

Tom Jones. Gil Blas.

>>9554434
>Chinese novels
How well do the proses translate tho? I've tried reading a japanese novel once and the whole thing felt off

>>9554330
Le Chevalier Errant by Tommaso III di Saluzzo.
But you have to know French or Italian if you want to read it.

>>9554330
Huck Finn.

>>9558747
Not as fluid as a European language, but it's okay, unlike Chinese poetry that's impossible to translate.

>>9558747
Awfully, but that shouldn't stop you. Even if it's like staring at the back of a tapestry, it's still a fucking good tapestry.
>>9559800
Classical prose really isn't much easier than poetry.

>>9554330
This is what I find in DeLillo's novels.